Shloka 32

Chapter 7: Dvīpa–Varṣa–Meru-varṇana

Description of the Dvīpa, Varṣas, and Mount Meru

Devanagari script

षष्टिं वर्षमहस्राणि षष्टिमेव शतानि च । आदित्यतापतप्तास्ते विशन्ति शशिमण्डलम्‌,वे छाछठ हजार वर्षोतक ही सूर्यदेवके तापमें तपकर अन्तमें चन्द्रमण्डलमें प्रवेश कर जाते हैं

Transliteration

ṣaṣṭiṁ varṣa-sahasrāṇi ṣaṣṭim eva śatāni ca | āditya-tāpa-taptās te viśanti śaśi-maṇḍalam ||

Translation

Sañjaya said: After being scorched by the Sun’s heat for sixty thousand years and sixty hundreds more, they finally enter the orb of the Moon. The statement underscores a cosmic moral order in which beings undergo long, purifying endurance before attaining a higher, cooler station—suggesting that ascent is earned through sustained discipline and the ripening of one’s allotted course.

Word by Word

• षष्टिम्: sixty
• षष्टिम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: षष्टि
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• वर्ष: years
• वर्ष: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: वर्ष
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Plural

• सहस्राणि: thousands
• सहस्राणि: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: सहस्र
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Plural

• षष्टिम्: sixty
• षष्टिम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: षष्टि
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• एव: indeed/just
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव

• शतानि: hundreds
• शतानि: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: शत
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Plural

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• आदित्य: of the Sun (Āditya)
• Type: Noun
• Root: आदित्य
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• ताप: by heat
• ताप: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: ताप
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

• तप्ताः: heated/scorched; having undergone austerity
• Type: Adjective
• Root: तप्
• Form: Past passive participle (क्त), Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• ते: they
• ते: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• विशन्ति: enter
• Type: Verb
• Root: विश्
• Form: Present (लट्), Third, Plural, Parasmaipada

• शशि: of the Moon
• Type: Noun
• Root: शशि
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• मण्डलम्: orb/sphere
• मण्डलम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: मण्डल
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Āditya (Sun)
• Śaśin (Moon)
• Śaśi-maṇḍala (lunar orb)