Shloka 30

Adhyaya 59 — सूर्याद्यभिषेककथनम्

Surya and Related Abhisheka/ Cosmological Determinations

Devanagari script

वसन्ते चैव ग्रीष्मे च शतैः स तपते त्रिभिः वर्षास्वथो शरदि च चतुर्भिः संप्रवर्षति

Transliteration

vasante caiva grīṣme ca śataiḥ sa tapate tribhiḥ varṣāsvatho śaradi ca caturbhiḥ saṃpravarṣati

Translation

वसन्त और ग्रीष्म में वह तीन सौ किरणों से तपता है; और वर्षा-ऋतु तथा शरद् में चार सौ (किरणों) से वर्षा बरसाता है।

Word by Word

• वसन्ते: in spring

• च एव: and indeed

• ग्रीष्मे: in summer

• च: and

• शतैः: with hundreds

• सः: he (the Sun/Aditya as the Lord’s function)

• तपते: burns, shines with heat

• त्रिभिः: with three

• वर्षासु: in the rainy season

• अथो: then/indeed

• शरदि: in autumn

• च: and

• चतुर्भिः: with four

• संप्रवर्षति: causes to rain abundantly

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmic order as an expression of Shiva’s lordship)