Shloka 119

Adhyaya 70: आदिसर्गः—महत्-अहङ्कार-तन्मात्रा-भूतसृष्टिः, ब्रह्माण्डावरणम्, प्रजासर्गः, त्रिमूर्ति-शैवाधिष्ठानम्

Devanagari script

आपो नाराश् च सूनव इत्यपां नाम शुश्रुमः आपूर्य ताभिर् अयनं कृतवानात्मनो यतः

Transliteration

āpo nārāś ca sūnava ityapāṃ nāma śuśrumaḥ āpūrya tābhir ayanaṃ kṛtavānātmano yataḥ

Translation

قد سمعنا أن «المياه» تُسمّى «أبناء نارا». ولمّا ملأ الربُّ الفضاء الكوني بتلك المياه، جعلها مضجعَه وموضعَ سُكناه (ayana)؛ لذلك يُعرَف باسم نارايَنة.

Word by Word

• āpaḥ: waters (primordial cosmic waters)

• nārāḥ: the ‘Naras’, here understood as waters/offspring of Nara

• ca: and

• sūnavaḥ: sons, progeny

• iti: thus

• apām: of the waters

• nāma: name, designation

• śuśrumaḥ: we have heard (traditional revelation)

• āpūrya: having filled, pervading completely

• tābhiḥ: by/with those (waters)

• ayanam: resting-place, abode, couch

• kṛtavān: made, established

• ātmanaḥ: for Himself, of His own being

• yataḥ: because, from which reason.

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Purāṇic etymology within the cosmogonic account)