Shloka 39

Adhyaya 23: श्वेत-लोहित-पीत-कृष्ण-विश्व-कल्पेषु रुद्रस्वरूप-गायत्री-तत्त्ववर्णनम्

Devanagari script

तस्मात्तु पशवः सर्वे भविष्यन्ति चतुष्पदाः ततश्चैषां भविष्यन्ति चत्वारस्ते पयोधराः

Transliteration

tasmāttu paśavaḥ sarve bhaviṣyanti catuṣpadāḥ tataścaiṣāṃ bhaviṣyanti catvāraste payodharāḥ

Translation

সেয়েহে সকলো পশু চতুষ্পদ—চাৰি পা-যুক্ত—হ’ব। তাৰ পাছত সিহঁতৰ বাবে চাৰি পয়োধৰ, দুধ ধাৰণ কৰা স্তন, উদ্ভৱ হ’ব।

Word by Word

• तस्मात् (tasmāt): therefore/from that cause

• तु (tu): indeed

• पशवः (paśavaḥ): animals/creatures (also ‘pashu’, bound souls in a broader Shaiva sense)

• सर्वे (sarve): all

• भविष्यन्ति (bhaviṣyanti): will become/will come into existence

• चतुष्पदाः (catuṣpadāḥ): four-footed

• ततः (tataḥ): then/thereafter

• च (ca): and

• एषाम् (eṣām): of these

• भविष्यन्ति (bhaviṣyanti): will arise/will be

• चत्वारः (catvāraḥ): four

• ते (te): those/their

• पयोधराः (payodharāḥ): milk-bearers/udders/breasts

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the creation account, echoing the inner cosmological discourse of the Purana)