Shloka 25

Devanagari script

त्वामष्टधा कल्पयित्वा यज्ञवाहमकल्पयन्‌ । त्वया विश्वमिदं सृष्टं वदन्ति परमर्षय:

Transliteration

tvām aṣṭadhā kalpayitvā yajñavāham akalpayan | tvayā viśvam idaṁ sṛṣṭaṁ vadanti paramarṣayaḥ ||

Translation

汝を八つの姿として観想し、賢者たちは汝を祭祀（ヤジュニャ）の担い手、運ぶものとして定めた。至高の見者たちは、この全宇宙が汝によって生み出されたのだと宣言する。

Word by Word

• त्वाम्: you (as object)
• त्वाम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: —, Accusative, Singular

• अष्टधा: in eight ways / eightfold
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अष्टधा

• कल्पयित्वा: having arranged/divided
• Type: Verb
• Root: कॢप्
• Form: क्त्वा (absolutive/gerund), Active, —, —, —

• यज्ञवाहम्: the bearer/vehicle of sacrifice (yajña-bearer)
• यज्ञवाहम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: यज्ञवाह
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• अकल्पयन्: they made/appointed
• Type: Verb
• Root: कॢप्
• Form: Imperfect, Third, Plural, Parasmaipada

• त्वया: by you
• त्वया: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: —, Instrumental, Singular

• विश्वम्: the universe / all
• विश्वम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: विश्व
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• इदम्: this
• Type: Noun
• Root: इदम्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• सृष्टम्: created
• Type: Verb
• Root: सृज्
• Form: क्त (past passive participle), Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• वदन्ति: they say
• Type: Verb
• Root: वद्
• Form: Present, Third, Plural, Parasmaipada

• परमर्षयः: the supreme sages
• परमर्षयः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: परमर्षि
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

Speaker

मन्दपाल उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mandapāla
• paramarṣayaḥ (supreme seers)
• yajña (sacrifice)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse presents a Vedic-theological vision: the divine is understood in an eightfold manifestation and is identified as the sustaining power of yajña (sacrificial order) and as the ultimate creator of the cosmos.

What is happening in the narrative?

Mandapāla addresses a divine principle (implicitly Agni/the sacrificial fire as cosmic power), praising it as the yajña-bearer conceived in eight forms and affirming, on the authority of the highest seers, that the whole universe originates from it.