Shloka 147

Adhyaya 70: आदिसर्गः—महत्-अहङ्कार-तन्मात्रा-भूतसृष्टिः, ब्रह्माण्डावरणम्, प्रजासर्गः, त्रिमूर्ति-शैवाधिष्ठानम्

Devanagari script

ऊर्ध्वस्रोतास्तृतीयस्तु स वै चोर्ध्वं व्यवस्थितः यस्मात्प्रवर्तते चोर्ध्वम् ऊर्ध्वस्रोतास्ततः स्मृतः

Transliteration

ūrdhvasrotāstṛtīyastu sa vai cordhvaṃ vyavasthitaḥ yasmātpravartate cordhvam ūrdhvasrotāstataḥ smṛtaḥ

Translation

第三の類は「ウールドゥヴァスロタス」（Ūrdhvasrotas、上向きに流れる者）と呼ばれる。これは上方に定まり、その流れが上へと進むゆえに、Ūrdhvasrotasと記憶される。

Word by Word

• ūrdhva-srotās: upward-flowing (having an upward current)

• tṛtīyaḥ: the third

• tu: indeed/and

• saḥ: that (class)

• vai: surely

• ca: and

• ūrdhvam: upward

• vyavasthitaḥ: situated/established

• yasmāt: because/from which reason

• pravartate: proceeds/sets forth

• ca: and

• ūrdhvam: upward

• ūrdhva-srotās: upward-flowing

• tataḥ: therefore

• smṛtaḥ: is known/remembered

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Purana to the sages of Naimisharanya, reporting the teaching on srotas-classification)