Shloka 12

Adhyāya 51: Kṛṣṇa’s Leave-Taking and Departure for Dvārakā (द्वारकागमनानुमति)

Devanagari script

एते विश्वसृजो विप्रा जायन्तीह पुन: पुनः । तेभ्य: प्रसूतास्तेष्वेव महाभूतेषु पडचसु । प्रलीयन्ते यथाकालमूर्मय: सागरे यथा,विश्वकी सृष्टि करनेवाले ये मरीचि आदि ब्राह्मण समुद्रकी लहरोंके समान बारंबार पञ्चमहाभूतोंसे उत्पन्न होते हैं। और उत्पन्न हुए वे फिर समयानुसार उन्हींमें लीन हो जाते हैं

Transliteration

ete viśvasṛjo viprā jāyantīha punaḥ punaḥ | tebhyaḥ prasūtāsteṣveva mahābhūteṣu pañcasu | pralīyante yathākālaṃ ūrmayaḥ sāgare yathā ||

Translation

Vāyu sprach: „Diese brahmanischen Seher — Schöpfer der Welten — werden hier immer wieder geboren. Aus den fünf großen Elementen geboren, lösen sie sich zu ihrer Zeit wieder in eben diese Elemente auf, wie Wellen im Ozean aufsteigen und, wenn ihre Zeit kommt, wieder in ihn zurücksinken.“

Word by Word

एतेthese

विश्वसृजःcreators of the universe

विप्राःbrahmins/sages

जायन्तिare born/arise

इहhere (in this world)

पुनःagain

पुनःagain (repeatedly)

तेभ्यःfrom them

प्रसूताःborn/produced (having been produced)

तेषुin them

एवindeed/only

महाभूतेषुin the great elements

पञ्चसुin the five

प्रलीयन्तेdissolve/merge (back)

यथाकालम्in due time

ऊर्मयःwaves

सागरेin the ocean

यथाas/just as

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vāyudeva (the Wind-god, speaker)

viśvasṛj viprāḥ (world-creating sages, e.g., Marīci and others implied)

pañca mahābhūtāni (the five great elements)

sāgara (ocean)

ūrmayaḥ (waves)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

All manifested beings—even exalted creator-sages—arise repeatedly from the five elements and, in time, return to them. The wave-ocean simile teaches impermanence and the natural rhythm of creation and dissolution governed by kāla (time).

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyudeva explains to his listener that the great seers who participate in cosmic creation appear again and again in the world, being generated from the five mahābhūtas, and later dissolve back into those same elements—like waves that rise from the ocean and subside into it.