Shloka 13

Adhyaya 59 — सूर्याद्यभिषेककथनम्

Surya and Related Abhisheka/ Cosmological Determinations

Devanagari script

मानवानां च कुक्षिस्थो नाग्निः शाम्यति पावकः अर्चिष्मान्पवनः सो ऽग्निर् निष्प्रभो जाठरः स्मृतः

Transliteration

mānavānāṃ ca kukṣistho nāgniḥ śāmyati pāvakaḥ arciṣmānpavanaḥ so 'gnir niṣprabho jāṭharaḥ smṛtaḥ

Translation

मनुष्यों के उदर में स्थित पावक अग्नि कभी शांत नहीं होती। प्राण-वायु से प्रज्वलित वही अग्नि, बाह्य ज्वाला-प्रभा रहित होकर भी, जाठराग्नि कहलाती है।

Word by Word

• mānavānām: of human beings

• ca: and

• kukṣi-sthaḥ: situated in the belly/womb-region

• na: not

• agniḥ: fire

• śāmyati: becomes extinguished/ceases

• pāvakaḥ: the purifier, fire

• arciṣmān: possessing flames/rays (i.e., kindled/energized)

• pavanaḥ: wind, vital air (prāṇa)

• saḥ: that

• agniḥ: fire

• niṣprabhaḥ: without visible lustre/radiance

• jāṭharaḥ: gastric/belly-related

• smṛtaḥ: is said to be/remembered as.

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Purva-Bhaga teaching to the sages of Naimisharanya)