Shloka 42

Adhyaya 59 — सूर्याद्यभिषेककथनम्

Surya and Related Abhisheka/ Cosmological Determinations

Devanagari script

एवं रश्मिसहस्रं तत् सौरं लोकार्थसाधकम् भिद्यते लोकमासाद्य जलशीतोष्णनिःस्रवम्

Transliteration

evaṃ raśmisahasraṃ tat sauraṃ lokārthasādhakam bhidyate lokamāsādya jalaśītoṣṇaniḥsravam

Translation

So gelangt das tausendfache Strahlenlicht der Sonne, das das Wohl der Welten bewirkt, in den irdischen Bereich, differenziert sich und strömt als Wasser hervor—kühlend und wärmend in seinen Gestalten.

Word by Word

• evam: thus

• raśmi-sahasram: a thousand rays / thousandfold radiance

• tat: that

• sauram: belonging to the Sun / solar

• lokārtha-sādhakam: accomplishing the purpose/welfare of the worlds

• bhidyate: is divided, differentiated

• lokam: the world (earthly realm)

• āsādya: having reached, upon arriving

• jala: as water

• śīta: cooling, cold

• uṣṇa: warming, hot

• niḥsravam: outflow, issuing forth

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmological account to the sages of Naimisharanya)