Shloka 23

Ābhūta-saṃplava & Loka-vibhāga

Dissolution Threshold and the Fourteen Abodes

Devanagari script

ये ते स्वायंभुवाद्या हि पुरस्तात्परिकीर्त्तिताः / कल्प एते यदा लोके प्रतिष्ठन्ति तदा तपः

Transliteration

ye te svāyaṃbhuvādyā hi purastātparikīrttitāḥ / kalpa ete yadā loke pratiṣṭhanti tadā tapaḥ

Translation

先に称えられたスヴァーヤンブヴァらが、カルパの時に諸世界に確立されるとき、そのときタパス（聖なる苦行）が起こる。

Word by Word

• ye: those who
• ye: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā (1st), Bahuvacana; relative pronoun

• te: those
• te: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā, Bahuvacana; correlative pronoun

• svāyaṃbhuva-ādyāḥ: beginning with Svāyaṃbhuva
• svāyaṃbhuva-ādyāḥ: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: svāyaṃbhuva (प्रातिपदिक) + ādi (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā, Bahuvacana; ‘beginning with Svāyaṃbhuva’

• hi: indeed
• hi: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: hi (अव्यय)
• Form: Nipāta — indeed/for

• purastāt: previously
• purastāt: Kāla/Deśa-adhikaraṇa (काल/देश अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: purastāt (अव्यय)
• Form: Kāla/deśa-avyaya (adverb) — ‘formerly/before’

• parikīrtitāḥ: have been described
• parikīrtitāḥ: Kriyā (क्रिया; verbal predicate)
• Type: Verb
• Root: pari + √kīrt (कीर्त् धातु) + parikīrtita (कृदन्त)
• Form: Bhūta-kṛdanta (past passive participle), Puṃliṅga, Prathamā, Bahuvacana; predicative (‘have been proclaimed’)

• kalpe: in the kalpa
• kalpe: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kalpa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Saptamī (7th), Ekavacana; locative (‘in a kalpa’)

• ete: these
• ete: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: etad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Prathamā, Bahuvacana

• yadā: when
• yadā: Kāla-adhikaraṇa (काल अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: yadā (अव्यय)
• Form: Kāla-avyaya (temporal conjunction)

• loke: in the world
• loke: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: loka (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Puṃliṅga, Saptamī, Ekavacana

• pratiṣṭhanti: become established
• pratiṣṭhanti: Kriyā (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: prati + √sthā (स्था धातु)
• Form: Laṭ-lakāra (present), Prathama-puruṣa (3rd), Bahuvacana; parasmaipada

• tadā: then
• tadā: Kāla-adhikaraṇa (काल अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tadā (अव्यय)
• Form: Kāla-avyaya (then)

• tapaḥ: austerity/penance
• tapaḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tapas (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Napumsaka, Prathamā (1st), Ekavacana; (elliptic predicate/subject; sense: ‘(there is) austerity’ or ‘austerity (is [their state])’)