### CC Adi 16.70

> সুন্দর শরীর যৈছে ভূষণে ভূষিত ।\
> এক শ্বেতকুষ্ঠে যৈছে করয়ে বিগীত ॥৭০॥

> sundara śarīra yaiche bhūṣaṇe bhūṣita\
> eka śveta-kuṣṭhe yaiche karaye vigīta

*sundara*—beautiful; *śarīra*—body; *yaiche*—as; *bhūṣaṇe*—with ornaments; *bhūṣita*—decorated; *eka*—one; *śveta-kuṣṭhe*—with a white spot of leprosy; *yaiche*—as; *karaye*—is made; *vigīta*—abominable.

**"One's beautiful body may be decorated with jewels, but one spot of white leprosy makes the entire body abominable.**

The great sage Bharata Muni, an authority on poetic metaphor, has given his opinion in this connection as follows.