Shloka 8

Adhyaya 52: सोमाधारः, पुण्योदानदी, मेरुप्रदक्षिणा, जम्बूद्वीपनववर्षवर्णनम्

Devanagari script

क्रीडते सुचिरं कालं तस्मात्पुण्यजला शिवा गिरिं मेरुं नदी पुण्या सा प्रयाति प्रदक्षिणम्

Transliteration

krīḍate suciraṃ kālaṃ tasmātpuṇyajalā śivā giriṃ meruṃ nadī puṇyā sā prayāti pradakṣiṇam

Translation

সেয়ে তাত বহুদীৰ্ঘ কাল ক্ৰীড়া কৰে; সেয়েহে পুণ্যজলৰে পবিত্ৰ সেই শুভা ‘শিৱা’ নদী মেরুগিৰিক প্ৰদক্ষিণ কৰি প্ৰবাহিত হয়।

Word by Word

• क्रीडते: sports, plays

• सुचिरम्: for a very long time

• कालम्: time/period

• तस्मात्: therefore/from that cause

• पुण्य-जला: having holy/meritorious waters

• शिवा: (the river named) Śivā, auspicious

• गिरिम्: mountain

• मेरुम्: Meru

• नदी: river

• पुण्या: sacred, meritorious

• सा: she/that (river)

• प्रयाति: goes, proceeds

• प्रदक्षिणम्: clockwise circumambulation (pradakṣiṇā)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the tirtha-mahatmya to the sages of Naimisharanya)