Verse 15

Sita

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अग्निरूपा अन्नपानादिप्राणिनां क्षुत्तृष्णात्मिका देवानां मुखरूपा वनौषधीनां शीतोष्णरूपा काष्ठेष्वन्तर्बहिश्च नित्यानित्यरूपा भवति॥१५॥

Padapatha (Word Split)

अग्नि-रूपा । अन्न-पान-आदि-प्राणिनाम् । क्षुत्-तृष्णा-आत्मिका । देवा-नाम् । मुख-रूपा । वन-औषधी-नाम् । शीत-उष्ण-रूपा । काष्ठेषु । अन्तः । बहिः । च । नित्य-अनित्य-रूपा । भवति ।

IAST Transliteration

agnirūpā annapānādiprāṇināṃ kṣuttṛṣṇātmikā devānāṃ mukharūpā vanauṣadhīnāṃ śītoṣṇarūpā kāṣṭheṣv antar bahiś ca nityānityarūpā bhavati ||15||

Translation

ಅಗ್ನಿರೂಪಳಾಗಿ ಅವಳು ಅನ್ನ-ಪಾನಾದಿಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಅವಲಂಬಿತ ಪ್ರಾಣಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಷುಧೆ ಮತ್ತು ತೃಷೆಯ ಸ್ವರೂಪವಾಗಿದ್ದಾಳೆ; ದೇವರಲ್ಲಿ ಮುಖರೂಪವಾಗಿದ್ದಾಳೆ; ವನೌಷಧಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಶೀತ ಮತ್ತು ಉಷ್ಣ ಸ್ವರೂಪವಾಗಿದ್ದಾಳೆ; ಮತ್ತು ಕಾಷ್ಠದಲ್ಲಿ ಒಳಗೂ ಹೊರಗೂ—ನಿತ್ಯ ಮತ್ತು ಅನಿತ್ಯ ಎಂಬ ಸ್ವರೂಪಗಳಾಗಿ ಪ್ರಕಾಶಿಸುತ್ತಾಳೆ.

Academic Translation

As of the form of Agni, she is, for living beings (dependent on) food, drink, and the like, of the nature of hunger and thirst; for the gods, of the form of the mouth; for forest-plants and herbs, of the form of cold and heat; in pieces of wood, both within and without, she becomes of the forms of the eternal and the non-eternal.

Verse Context

• Agni/Tejas as Śakti; prāṇa and yajña as cosmic exchange; māyā’s mutable forms grounded in an underlying power
• Mahavakya: Indirect: supports ‘ahaṃ brahmāsmi’/‘tat tvam asi’ contemplations by tracing bodily drives (hunger/thirst) and ritual fire back to a single divine power; not an explicit mahāvākya.
• Atharva
• Chandas: Prose