Shloka 50
कर्णावाकाशपाताले ललाटं भूतधारिणी । गड़ा सरस्वती श्रोण्यौ भ्रुवावास्तां महोदधी,आकाश और पाताल उनके कान थे एवं समस्त भूतोंको धारण करनेवाली पृथ्वी ललाट थी। गंगा और सरस्वती उनके नितम्ब तथा दो समुद्र उनकी दोनों भौंहें थे
karṇāv ākāśapātāle lalāṭaṁ bhūtadhāriṇī | gaṅgā sarasvatī śroṇyau bhruvāv āstāṁ mahodadhī ||
Vaiśaṃpāyana said: “Sky and the netherworld (Pātāla) were her two ears; the Earth—bearer of all beings—was her forehead. The rivers Gaṅgā and Sarasvatī formed her hips, and the two great oceans stood as her eyebrows.”
वैशग्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse presents a cosmic-body metaphor in which Earth and its features are sacred supports of life. Ethically, it implies dharma as stewardship: honoring and protecting the natural order that sustains all beings.
Vaiśaṃpāyana describes a vast, personified cosmic figure (centered on Earth), mapping major realms and waters—sky, netherworld, rivers, and oceans—onto bodily parts to convey the grandeur and integrative structure of the world.