Shloka 41

Adhyaya 23: श्वेत-लोहित-पीत-कृष्ण-विश्व-कल्पेषु रुद्रस्वरूप-गायत्री-तत्त्ववर्णनम्

Devanagari script

तस्मात्सोममयं चैव अमृतं जीवसंज्ञितम् चतुष्पादा भविष्यन्ति श्वेतत्वं चास्य तेन तत्

Transliteration

tasmātsomamayaṃ caiva amṛtaṃ jīvasaṃjñitam catuṣpādā bhaviṣyanti śvetatvaṃ cāsya tena tat

Translation

ゆえに、ソーマより成るものはまことにアムリタ（不死の甘露）であり、ジーヴァ（jīva）の原理と呼ばれる。そこから四足の生類が生じ、またそのソーマ性によって彼らの白さが現れる。

Word by Word

• तस्मात्: therefore/from that

• सोममयम्: made of Soma, lunar essence

• च एव: and indeed

• अमृतम्: deathless, ambrosial nectar

• जीवसंज्ञितम्: designated as jīva (life-principle)

• चतुष्पादाः: four-footed beings

• भविष्यन्ति: will come into being/shall arise

• श्वेतत्वम्: whiteness, pale/white coloration

• च अस्य: and of it/for them

• तेन: by that, due to that

• तत्: that (result/condition)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Purana to the Sages of Naimisharanya)