Shloka 136

Lokakalpanā / The Ordering of the Worlds

Cosmogony and Earth’s Retrieval

Devanagari script

तस्मिन् युगसहस्रान्ते संस्थिते ब्रह्मणो ऽहनि / तावत्कालं रजन्यां च वर्तन्त्यां सलिलात्मनः

Transliteration

tasmin yugasahasrānte saṃsthite brahmaṇo 'hani / tāvatkālaṃ rajanyāṃ ca vartantyāṃ salilātmanaḥ

Translation

千ユガの終わりに、梵天の昼が終息して定まると、その同じ時のあいだ梵天の夜においても、万有は水の相として存し続ける。

Word by Word

• tasmin: in that
• tasmin: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Locative (7th/सप्तमी), Singular (एकवचन)

• yuga-sahasra-ante: at the end of a thousand yugas
• yuga-sahasra-ante: Kāla-adhikaraṇa (कालाधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yuga + sahasra + anta (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Locative (7th/सप्तमी), Singular (एकवचन); ‘at the end of a thousand yugas’

• saṃsthite: when established/at the settling
• saṃsthite: Kāla-adhikaraṇa (कालाधिकरण; locative absolute nuance)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sam-√sthā (स्था धातु)
• Form: Past passive participle (क्त), Locative (7th/सप्तमी), Singular (एकवचन), Masculine/Neuter (पुं/नपुंसक); ‘when (it) has come to rest/been established’

• brahmaṇaḥ: of Brahmā
• brahmaṇaḥ: Ṣaṣṭhī-sambandha (षष्ठीसम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: brahman (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine/Neuter (पुं/नपुंसक), Genitive (6th/षष्ठी), Singular (एकवचन)

• ahani: on the day
• ahani: Kāla-adhikaraṇa (कालाधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ahan (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Locative (7th/सप्तमी), Singular (एकवचन)

• tāvat-kālaṃ: for that long a time
• tāvat-kālaṃ: Kāla (काल; duration)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tāvat + kāla (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Accusative (2nd/द्वितीया), Singular (एकवचन); duration accusative

• rajanyāṃ: in the night
• rajanyāṃ: Kāla-adhikaraṇa (कालाधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: rajanī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine (स्त्रीलिङ्ग), Locative (7th/सप्तमी), Singular (एकवचन)

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/connector)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: Conjunction (समुच्चय)

• vartantyāṃ: while (it) continues
• vartantyāṃ: Kāla-adhikaraṇa (कालाधिकरण; locative absolute)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: √vṛt (वृत् धातु)
• Form: Present active participle (शतृ), Feminine (स्त्रीलिङ्ग), Locative (7th/सप्तमी), Singular (एकवचन); locative absolute with rajanyām: ‘while the night is going on’

• salila-ātmanaḥ: of (that which is) of the nature of water
• salila-ātmanaḥ: Ṣaṣṭhī-sambandha (षष्ठीसम्बन्ध)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: salila + ātman (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Genitive (6th/षष्ठी), Singular (एकवचन); ‘of water-natured (one/thing)’