Shloka 7

Sūrya-stava: Dhaumya’s Counsel and the Aṣṭaśata-nāma of Sūrya

Devanagari script

क्षेत्रभूते ततस्तस्मिन्नोषधीरोषधीपति: । दिवस्तेज: समुद्धृत्य जनयामास वारिणा,इस प्रकार जब सारे भूमण्डलमें क्षेत्र तैयार हो गया, तब ओषधियोंके स्वामी चन्द्रमाने अन्तरिक्षमें मेघोंके रूपमें परिणत हुए सूर्यके तेजको प्रकट करके उसके द्वारा बरसाये हुए जलसे अन्न आदि ओषधियोंको उत्पन्न किया

Transliteration

kṣetrabhūte tatastasminn oṣadhīr oṣadhīpatiḥ | divas tejaḥ samuddhṛtya janayāmāsa vāriṇā ||

Translation

When the whole earth had thus become a prepared field, the Moon—lord of medicinal plants—drew forth the sun’s radiance that had transformed into clouds in the mid-sky, and by the water rained down through that agency he brought forth the herbs and food-grains.

Word by Word

क्षेत्रभूतेwhen (it) had become a field / when the field was ready

ततःthen, thereafter

तस्मिन्in that (place/time)

ओषधीःherbs, plants (crops)

ओषधीपतिःlord of herbs (the Moon)

दिवःfrom heaven / from the sky

तेजःradiance, energy

समुद्धृत्यhaving drawn out / having extracted

जनयामासproduced, generated

वारिणाby water

Speaker

धौग्य उवाच

Characters & Entities

Candra (Moon) as Oṣadhīpati

Sūrya-tejas (sun’s radiance)

Megha (clouds, implied by the description)

Oṣadhi (herbs/food plants)

Kṣetra (field/earth as cultivated ground)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Life’s nourishment arises from harmony in the larger order: radiance (tejas), rain (vāri), and the lunar principle (Candra as oṣadhīpati) cooperate to generate vegetation. Implicitly, human prosperity too depends on maintaining dharma and respecting the conditions that sustain the world.

What is happening in the narrative?

After the earth is described as becoming like a prepared field, the Moon, called the lord of herbs, draws up the sun’s radiance that has become cloud-formed in the sky and, through the resulting rainfall, causes herbs and food-grains to grow.