Shloka 4
ब्रह्मणो वरप्रदानम् — शिवस्य परत्वप्रतिपादनम् तथा वराहेण भूमेः पुनःस्थापनम्
Devanagari script
मामाहुर् ऋषयः प्रेक्ष्य प्रधानं प्रकृतिं तथा अव्यक्तमजमित्येवं भवन्तं पुरुषस्त्विति
Transliteration
māmāhur ṛṣayaḥ prekṣya pradhānaṃ prakṛtiṃ tathā avyaktamajamityevaṃ bhavantaṃ puruṣastviti
Translation
തത്ത്വം സമ്യക്മായി ദർശിച്ച ഋഷിമാർ എന്നെക്കുറിച്ച്—‘ഇത് പ്രധാനം, ഇത് പ്രകൃതി, ഇത് അവ്യക്തം, ഇത് അജം (അജന്മ)’ എന്നു പറഞ്ഞു; അതുപോലെ നിങ്ങളെ ‘പുരുഷൻ’—അന്തര്യാമി പതി—എന്നും അറിയുന്നു।
Word by Word
माम् (mām)me
माम् (mām):
आहुः (āhuḥ)declared/called
आहुः (āhuḥ):
ऋषयः (ṛṣayaḥ)the seers
ऋषयः (ṛṣayaḥ):
प्रेक्ष्य (prekṣya)having perceived/discerned
प्रेक्ष्य (prekṣya):
प्रधानम् (pradhānam)the primal principle (Pradhāna)
प्रधानम् (pradhānam):
प्रकृतिम् (prakṛtim)Nature/matrix (Prakṛti)
प्रकृतिम् (prakṛtim):
तथा (tathā)and also
तथा (tathā):
अव्यक्तम् (avyaktam)the unmanifest
अव्यक्तम् (avyaktam):
अजम् (ajam)unborn
अजम् (ajam):
इति (iti)thus
इति (iti):
एवम् (evaṃ)in this manner
एवम् (evaṃ):
भवन्तम् (bhavantam)you (venerable one)
भवन्तम् (bhavantam):
पुरुषः (puruṣaḥ)Purusha/conscious Lord
पुरुषः (puruṣaḥ):
तु (tu)indeed
तु (tu):
इति (iti)so (they say/know).
इति (iti):
Speaker
Suta Goswami (narrating the doctrinal teaching within the Purva-Bhaga cosmology section)