Shloka 1

पीतवासा-कल्पः, माहेश्वरी-दर्शनम्, रौद्री-गायत्री, महायोगेन अपुनर्भवः

Devanagari script

सूत उवाच एकत्रिंशत्तमः कल्पः पीतवासा इति स्मृतः ब्रह्मा यत्र महाभागः पीतवासा बभूव ह

Transliteration

sūta uvāca ekatriṃśattamaḥ kalpaḥ pītavāsā iti smṛtaḥ brahmā yatra mahābhāgaḥ pītavāsā babhūva ha

Translation

Sūta said: “The thirty-first Kalpa is remembered as the ‘Pītavāsā’ Kalpa, for in that cycle the greatly fortunate Brahmā indeed appeared clad in yellow garments.”

Word by Word

• sūtaḥ: Sūta (the narrator)

• uvāca: said

• ekatriṃśattamaḥ: thirty-first

• kalpaḥ: cosmic aeon/cycle

• pītavāsā: ‘yellow-robed’, clad in yellow garments

• iti: thus

• smṛtaḥ: is remembered/known

• brahmā: Brahmā (the creator)

• yatra: wherein/in which (Kalpa)

• mahābhāgaḥ: greatly fortunate, illustrious

• pītavāsā: wearing yellow garments

• babhūva: became/appeared

• ha: indeed (emphatic particle)

Speaker

Suta