Shloka 41

Devanagari script

श्वेतद्वीपे मया दृष्टास्तादृशावृषिसत्तमौ । तदनन्तर नारदजीने उन दोनों पुरुषोत्तमोंकी ओर देखकर मन-ही-मन विचार किया, अहो! मैंने श्वेतद्वीपमें भगवान्‌की सभाके भीतर जिन सर्वभूतवन्दित सदस्योंको देखा था, ये दोनों ऋषिश्रेष्ठ भी वैसे ही हैं ।। इति संचिन्त्य मनसा कृत्वा चाभिप्रदक्षिणम्‌

Transliteration

vaiśampāyana uvāca |

śvetadvīpe mayā dṛṣṭās tādṛśāv ṛṣisattamau |

tad-anantaraṃ nāradaḥ jine ubhau puruṣottamau-iti tābhyāṃ prati nirīkṣya manasā sañcintya |

aho! mayā śvetadvīpe bhagavataḥ sabhāyāṃ bhitare ye sarvabhūta-vanditāḥ sadasyā dṛṣṭāḥ, etau dvāv api ṛṣiśreṣṭhau tathāvidhau ||

iti sañcintya manasā kṛtvā cābhipradakṣiṇam ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana sprach: „Auf Śvetadvīpa sah ich zwei erhabenste Weise von eben solcher Gestalt.“ Danach blickte Nārada zu den beiden Höchsten auf und dachte bei sich: „Ah! Die ehrwürdigen Mitglieder, die ich in der Versammlung des Herrn auf Śvetadvīpa sah—von allen Wesen verehrt—diesen beiden besten der Rishis gleichen sie vollkommen.“ So im Geist erwogen, umschritt er sie ehrerbietig.

Word by Word

श्वेतद्वीपेin Śvetadvīpa

मयाby me

दृष्टौseen (the two)

तादृशौsuch, of that kind (two)

ऋषिसत्तमौthe two best of sages

इतिthus

संचिन्त्यhaving reflected

मनसाwith the mind

कृत्वाhaving done

चand

अभिप्रदक्षिणम्in circumambulation / as a pradakṣiṇā

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Nārada

Śvetadvīpa

Bhagavān (the Lord)

the Lord’s assembly (sabhā)

two ṛṣi-sattamas (two foremost sages)

two puruṣottamas (two supreme persons)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

True spiritual discernment expresses itself as humility and reverence: when Nārada recognizes in living persons the same sanctity he once witnessed in the Lord’s divine assembly, he responds not with pride of knowledge but with respectful circumambulation.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana narrates that Nārada sees two exalted beings and mentally compares them to the revered members he had earlier seen in the Lord’s assembly at Śvetadvīpa; concluding they are of the same divine stature, he honors them by circumambulating them.