Shloka 86

अनुक्रमणिकाध्यायः (Anukramaṇikā Adhyāya) — Invocation, Narrator Frame, and Textual Scope

Devanagari script

पुराणपूर्णचन्द्रेण श्रुतिज्योत्स्ना: प्रकाशिता: । नृबुद्धिकेरवाणां च कृतमेतत्‌ प्रकाशनम्‌,यह भारत-पुराण पूर्ण चन्द्रमाके समान है, जिससे श्रुतियोंकी चाँदनी छिटकती है और मनुष्योंकी बुद्धिरूपी कुमुदिनी सदाके लिये खिल जाती है

Transliteration

purāṇa-pūrṇa-candreṇa śruti-jyotsnāḥ prakāśitāḥ | nṛ-buddhi-keravāṇāṃ ca kṛtam etat prakāśanam ||

Translation

This Bhārata, like the full moon of ancient lore, sheds the moonlight of the Vedas; by its radiance the lotus-like intellects of human beings are made to bloom—this work has been composed as an illumination for them.

Word by Word

• {'purāṇa': 'ancient lore

• traditional sacred history', 'pūrṇa-candra': 'full moon', 'purāṇa-pūrṇa-candreṇa': 'by/with the full moon of ancient lore (instrumental sense)', 'śruti': 'revealed scripture

• the Vedas', 'jyotsnā': 'moonlight', 'śruti-jyotsnāḥ': 'the moonlight of śruti (Vedic revelation)', 'prakāśitāḥ': 'are illuminated

• are made manifest', 'nṛ': 'human

• man', 'buddhi': 'intellect

• discernment', 'kerava': 'water-lily/lotus (often used for the night-blooming kumuda imagery)', 'nṛ-buddhi-keravāṇām': 'of the lotus-like intellects of humans', 'ca': 'and', 'kṛtam': 'made

• accomplished', 'etat': 'this', 'prakāśanam': 'illumination

Characters & Entities

• Bhārata (Mahābhārata)
• Śruti (Vedas)