Shloka 15

Śuka’s Manifestation from the Araṇi (Āraṇeya-janma) — शुकजन्म (आरणेय-सम्भव)

Devanagari script

इहैव परिवर्तन्ते तिर्यग्योनिप्रवेशिन: । त्रीणि कल्पसहस्राणि एतेषामहरुच्यते

Transliteration

ihaiva parivartante tiryagyonipraveśinaḥ | trīṇi kalpasahasrāṇi eteṣām ahar ucyate ||

Translation

Those who have entered into animal wombs keep revolving here itself, again and again. For such beings, it is said that a single ‘day’ amounts to three thousand kalpas—an image meant to convey the vast, oppressive duration of their bondage and the grave ethical cost of falling into subhuman states of existence.

Word by Word

• इह: here (in this world)
• इह: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इह

• एव: indeed/only
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव

• परिवर्तन्ते: they revolve/continue to transmigrate
• Type: Verb
• Root: परि√वृत्
• Form: Lat, Atmanepada, Prathama, Bahuvacana

• तिर्यग्योनिप्रवेशिनः: those who enter animal wombs (i.e., are born as animals)
• तिर्यग्योनिप्रवेशिनः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: तिर्यग्योनि-प्रवेशिन्
• Form: Pum, Prathama, Bahuvacana

• त्रीणि: three
• Type: Adjective
• Root: त्रि
• Form: Napumsaka, Prathama, Bahuvacana

• कल्पसहस्राणि: thousands of kalpas
• Type: Noun
• Root: कल्प-सहस्र
• Form: Napumsaka, Prathama, Bahuvacana

• एतेषाम्: of these (beings)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: एतद्
• Form: Pum/Napumsaka, Shashthi, Bahuvacana

• अहर्: a day / time-period
• Type: Noun
• Root: अहन्
• Form: Napumsaka, Prathama, Ekavacana

• उच्यते: is said/is called
• Type: Verb
• Root: √वच्
• Form: Lat, Atmanepada, Karmani, Prathama, Ekavacana

Speaker

याज़्ञवल्क्य उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Yājñavalkya
• tiryag-yoni (animal womb / non-human birth)
• kalpa (aeon)