Shloka 15

Adhyaya 45: Rudra as Sarvatma—Seven Lokas, Seven Talas, and the Cosmic Body of Shiva

Devanagari script

लक्षं सप्तसहस्रं हि तलानां सघनस्य तु व्योम्नः प्रमाणं मूलं तु त्रिंशत्साहस्रकेण तु

Transliteration

lakṣaṃ saptasahasraṃ hi talānāṃ saghanasya tu vyomnaḥ pramāṇaṃ mūlaṃ tu triṃśatsāhasrakeṇa tu

Translation

まことに、密なる地下界（タラ）の測られた広がりは十万七千であり、またその間にある天の空間（ヴ्योーマン）の根本の尺度は三万と定められる。

Word by Word

• lakṣam: one hundred thousand

• sapta-sahasram: seven thousand

• hi: indeed

• talānām: of the talas (nether realms)

• saghanasya: of the dense/compact (mass)

• tu: and/but

• vyomnaḥ: of the sky/space

• pramāṇam: measure, extent

• mūlam: fundamental/basis

• tu: indeed

• triṃśat-sāhasrakeṇa: by/at thirty-thousand (as the unit/extent)

• tu: and/indeed

Speaker

Suta Goswami