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Shloka 15

Draupadī’s Instruction on Marital Conduct and Household Discipline (चित्तग्रहण-उपदेश)

यकृत्‌ कृष्णायसं तस्य त्रिभिरेव बभु: प्रजा: । नखास्तस्याभ्रपटलं शिराजालानि विद्रुमम्‌,और उनका यकृत्‌ (जिगर) ही काले रंगका लोहा बनकर प्रकट हुआ। काष्ठ, पाषाण और लोहा--इन तीनोंसे ही प्रजाजनोंकी शोभा होती है। उनके नख मेघसमूहका रूप धारण करते हैं। नाडियाँ मूँगा बनकर प्रकट हुई हैं

yakṛt kṛṣṇāyasaṁ tasya tribhir eva babhūḥ prajāḥ | nakhās tasyābhrapaṭalaṁ śirājālāni vidrumam |

Mārkaṇḍeya dit : De son foie se manifesta le fer noir ; et de trois substances seulement—le bois, la pierre et le fer—ses créatures reçurent leurs formes et leur éclat propres. Ses ongles prirent l’aspect d’amas de nuages, et ses réseaux de veines devinrent du corail.

यकृत्liver
यकृत्:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootयकृत्
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
कृष्णblack
कृष्ण:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootकृष्ण
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
आयसम्iron/metal
आयसम्:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootआयस
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
तस्यof him/of that
तस्य:
Adhikarana
TypePronoun
Rootतद्
FormMasculine/Neuter, Genitive, Singular
त्रिभिःwith/by three
त्रिभिः:
Karana
TypeNumeral
Rootत्रि
FormMasculine/Neuter, Instrumental, Plural
एवindeed/only
एव:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootएव
बभुःbecame/were
बभुः:
TypeVerb
Rootभू
FormPerfect (Liṭ), 3rd, Plural, Parasmaipada
प्रजाःcreatures/subjects
प्रजाः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootप्रजा
FormFeminine, Nominative, Plural
नखाःnails/claws
नखाः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootनख
FormMasculine, Nominative, Plural
तस्यof him/of that
तस्य:
Adhikarana
TypePronoun
Rootतद्
FormMasculine/Neuter, Genitive, Singular
अभ्रcloud
अभ्र:
TypeNoun
Rootअभ्र
FormNeuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular
पटलम्covering/mass/cluster
पटलम्:
Karma
TypeNoun
Rootपटल
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
शिराvein
शिरा:
TypeNoun
Rootशिरा
FormFeminine, Nominative/Accusative, Singular
जालानिnets/meshes
जालानि:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootजाल
FormNeuter, Nominative, Plural
विद्रुमम्coral
विद्रुमम्:
Karma
TypeNoun
Rootविद्रुम
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

M
Mārkaṇḍeya
B
black iron (kṛṣṇāyasa)
W
wood
S
stone
I
iron
C
cloud-mass (abhra-paṭala)
C
coral (vidruma)

Educational Q&A

The verse uses mythic bodily imagery to express how the material world is envisioned as emerging from a primordial being: metals, natural phenomena, and ornaments of the earth are portrayed as transformations of bodily elements, suggesting an ordered correspondence between body and cosmos.

Mārkaṇḍeya continues a cosmogonic description in which parts of a great being’s body become features and substances of the world: the liver becomes black iron, nails resemble cloud-banks, and the web of veins becomes coral, while beings are said to arise with the prominence of wood, stone, and iron.