Shloka 72

अनुक्रमणिकाध्यायः (Anukramaṇikā Adhyāya) — Invocation, Narrator Frame, and Textual Scope

Devanagari script

जन्मप्रभृति सत्यां ते वेझि गां ब्रह्म॒वादिनीम्‌ । त्वया च काव्यमित्युक्त तस्मात्‌ काव्यं भविष्यति,मैं जानता हूँ कि आजीवन तुम्हारी ब्रह्मवादिनी वाणी सत्य भाषण करती रही है और तुमने अपनी रचनाको काव्य कहा है, इसलिये अब यह काव्यके नामसे ही प्रसिद्ध होगी

Transliteration

janmaprabhṛti satyāṃ te veḍhi gāṃ brahmavādinīm | tvayā ca kāvyam ity uktaṃ tasmāt kāvyaṃ bhaviṣyati |

Translation

“From birth onward, know that your speech has been truthful and worthy of a brahmavādinī. And since you yourself have called this composition a ‘kāvya’, therefore it shall indeed become known as a kāvya.”

Word by Word

जन्मfrom birth / since birth

प्रभृतिonwards, beginning from

सत्याम्truthful (speech)

तेyour

वाग्speech, voice

ब्रह्मवादिनीम्one who speaks sacred truth / brahma-speaking (fem.)

त्वयाby you

चand

काव्यम्poem, poetic work

इतिthus (quotative)

उक्तम्said, called

तस्मात्therefore, from that

काव्यम्the poem/work

भविष्यतिwill be, will become

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