Shloka 49

भुवनकोशविन्यासनिर्णयः (ज्योतिर्गति-वृष्टिचक्र-वर्णनम्)

Devanagari script

विरिञ्चोच्छ्वासजाः सर्वे प्रवहस्कन्धजास्ततः पक्षजाः पुष्कराद्याश् च वर्षन्ति च यदा जलम्

Transliteration

viriñcocchvāsajāḥ sarve pravahaskandhajāstataḥ pakṣajāḥ puṣkarādyāś ca varṣanti ca yadā jalam

Translation

Toutes ces nuées naissent du souffle expiré de Viriñci (Brahmā). D’elles surgissent les nuées de la classe Pravaha ; et de leurs rameaux naissent les ailées —Puṣkara et les autres— qui, lorsque vient le moment, déversent l’eau en pluie.

Word by Word

• विरिञ्च (viriñci): Brahmā

• उच्छ्वास (ucchvāsa): out-breath, exhalation

• जाः (jāḥ): born from

• सर्वे (sarve): all

• प्रवह (pravaha): name of a class of clouds/atmospheric currents

• स्कन्ध (skandha): branch, division, group

• जाः (jāḥ): produced from

• ततः (tataḥ): then/from them

• पक्षजाः (pakṣajāḥ): winged ones (birds-like/cloud-forms), born with wings

• पुष्कराद्याः (puṣkarādyāḥ): Puṣkara and others (named rain-cloud groups)

• च (ca): and

• वर्षन्ति (varṣanti): they rain, they pour down

• यदा (yadā): when

• जलम् (jalam): water

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmological account to the sages of Naimisharanya)