Shloka 4

ब्रह्मणो वरप्रदानम् — शिवस्य परत्वप्रतिपादनम् तथा वराहेण भूमेः पुनःस्थापनम्

Devanagari script

मामाहुर् ऋषयः प्रेक्ष्य प्रधानं प्रकृतिं तथा अव्यक्तमजमित्येवं भवन्तं पुरुषस्त्विति

Transliteration

māmāhur ṛṣayaḥ prekṣya pradhānaṃ prakṛtiṃ tathā avyaktamajamityevaṃ bhavantaṃ puruṣastviti

Translation

তত্ত্ব সম্যক্ দৰ্শন কৰি ঋষিসকলে মোৰ বিষয়ে ক’লে—‘ই প্ৰধান, ই প্ৰকৃতি, ই অব্যক্ত, ই অজ (অজন্মা)’; আৰু তেনেদৰে আপোনাক ‘পুৰুষ’—অন্তৰ্যামী পতি—ৰূপে জানে।

Word by Word

• माम् (mām): me

• आहुः (āhuḥ): declared/called

• ऋषयः (ṛṣayaḥ): the seers

• प्रेक्ष्य (prekṣya): having perceived/discerned

• प्रधानम् (pradhānam): the primal principle (Pradhāna)

• प्रकृतिम् (prakṛtim): Nature/matrix (Prakṛti)

• तथा (tathā): and also

• अव्यक्तम् (avyaktam): the unmanifest

• अजम् (ajam): unborn

• इति (iti): thus

• एवम् (evaṃ): in this manner

• भवन्तम् (bhavantam): you (venerable one)

• पुरुषः (puruṣaḥ): Purusha/conscious Lord

• तु (tu): indeed

• इति (iti): so (they say/know).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the doctrinal teaching within the Purva-Bhaga cosmology section)