Shloka 25

Adhyaya 58 — The Kurma-Form of Narayana: Mapping Bharata through Nakshatras, Regions, and Planetary Afflictions

Sanskrit

तथा वारिचराः कोलाः चर्मपट्टनिवासिनः ।

गणबाह्याः पराः कृष्णा द्वीपवास निवासिनः ॥

Transliteration

tathā vāricarāḥ kolāḥ carmapaṭṭa-nivāsinaḥ | gaṇa-bāhyāḥ parāḥ kṛṣṇā dvīpa-vāsa-nivāsinaḥ ||

Translation

وكذلك تُذْكَرُ الكولا الذين يسيرون على المياه أو بمحاذاتها؛ والساكنون في تشَرْمَپَطَّة؛ ومن هم خارج الغَنا (gaṇa) أي الجماعات المعترف بها؛ والأقوام البعيدة ذوو البشرة الداكنة؛ وسكانُ المستوطناتِ الجُزُرية كذلك.

Word by Word

• तथा: likewise
• तथा: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/अन्वय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा (अव्यय)
• Form: प्रकारार्थक/समुच्चयार्थक-अव्यय (adverb ‘thus/likewise’)

• वारिचराः: water-dwellers
• वारिचराः: Karta (कर्ता/उद्देश्य-निर्देशः)
• Type: Noun
• Root: वारि-चर (प्रातिपदिक); चर (धातु √चर्)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (Nominative), बहुवचन; तत्पुरुषः: ‘वारिणि चराः’ (moving/dwelling in water)

• कोलाः: the Kolas
• कोलाः: Karta (कर्ता/उद्देश्य-निर्देशः)
• Type: Noun
• Root: कोल (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (Nominative), बहुवचन

• चर्मपट्टनिवासिनः: residents of Carmapaṭṭa
• चर्मपट्टनिवासिनः: Karta (कर्ता/उद्देश्य-निर्देशः)
• Type: Noun
• Root: चर्मपट्ट-निवासिन् (प्रातिपदिक); निवासिन् (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक from √वस् ‘to dwell’, with नि-उपसर्ग)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (Nominative), बहुवचन; षष्ठी/सप्तमी-तत्पुरुषः: ‘चर्मपट्टे निवासिनः’ (residents of Carmapaṭṭa)

• गणबाह्याः: outsiders (excluded from the group)
• गणबाह्याः: Visheshana (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: गण-बाह्य (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (Nominative), बहुवचन; तत्पुरुषः: ‘गणात् बाह्याः’ (outside the group/caste)

• पराः: other/further
• पराः: Visheshana (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (Nominative), बहुवचन

• कृष्णाः: dark/black
• कृष्णाः: Visheshana (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: कृष्ण (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (Nominative), बहुवचन

• द्वीपवास-निवासिनः: residents of Dvīpavāsa
• द्वीपवास-निवासिनः: Karta (कर्ता/उद्देश्य-निर्देशः)
• Type: Noun
• Root: द्वीपवास-निवासिन् (प्रातिपदिक); निवासिन् (कृदन्त from √वस्)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (Nominative), बहुवचन; तत्पुरुषः: ‘द्वीपवासे निवासिनः’ (dwelling in Dvīpavāsa)

Speakers

• Purāṇic narrator (catalogue style); specific interlocutors not indicated in the supplied excerpt

Verse Rasa

{ "primaryRasa": "adbhuta", "secondaryRasa": "shanta", "rasaIntensity": 0, "emotionalArcPosition": "", "moodDescriptors": [] }

Key Themes

• Ethnography
• Frontier peoples
• Island geographies
• Social categorization in catalogues

FAQs

What is the philosophical or ethical takeaway?

The Purāṇic catalogue recognizes many communities at the edges of the classical heartland; it implicitly asserts that the moral cosmos includes both insiders and outsiders.

How does this fit the Pancalakshana (5 characteristics)?

Cosmography/earth-description (kṣetra-varṇana) as supporting Purāṇic material; not directly sarga/pratisarga.

What is the esoteric significance?

“Outside the gaṇas” can be read symbolically as liminal beings at the margins of order—necessary contrasts that help define the center’s dharmic identity.