Shloka 32

Adhyaya 58 — The Kurma-Form of Narayana: Mapping Bharata through Nakshatras, Regions, and Planetary Afflictions

Sanskrit

धूर्तका हैमगिरिकाः सिन्धुकालकवैरताः ।

सौराष्ट्रा दरदाश्चैव द्राविडाश्च महार्णवाः ॥

Transliteration

dhūrtakā haimagirikāḥ sindhukālaka-vairatāḥ | saurāṣṭrā daradāś caiva drāviḍāś ca mahārṇavāḥ ||

Translation

ധൂർത്തകർ, ഹൈമഗിരികർ (ഹിമാലയ പർവ്വതവാസികൾ), സിന്ധുകാലകർയും വൈരടരും; സൗരാഷ്ട്രർ, ദാരദർ; കൂടാതെ ദ്രാവിഡരും മഹാർണവരും—ഇവരും പരികീർത്തിതരാണ്।

Word by Word

• धूर्तकाः: the Dhūrtakas
• धूर्तकाः: Karta (कर्ता/Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: धूर्तक (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन (Plural)

• हैमगिरिकाः: the Haimagirikās
• हैमगिरिकाः: Karta (कर्ता/Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: हैम (प्रातिपदिक) + गिरिक (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन (Plural); तत्पुरुषः (those of the ‘golden mountain’/Haimagiri region)

• सिन्धु-कालक-वैरताः: the Sindhus, Kālakas, and Vairatas
• सिन्धु-कालक-वैरताः: Karta (कर्ता/Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सिन्धु (प्रातिपदिक) + कालक (प्रातिपदिक) + वैरत (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन (Plural); समाहार/इतरेतर-द्वन्द्वभावः (grouped listing: Sindhus, Kālakas, Vairatas)

• सौराष्ट्राः: the Saurāṣṭras
• सौराष्ट्राः: Karta (कर्ता/Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सौराष्ट्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन (Plural)

• दरदाः: the Daradas
• दरदाः: Karta (कर्ता/Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: दरद (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन (Plural)

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/Connector)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयबोधक-अव्यय (conjunction)

• एव: also/indeed
• एव: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/Emphasis)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव (अव्यय)
• Form: अवधारणार्थक-अव्यय (particle)

• द्राविडाः: the Drāviḍas
• द्राविडाः: Karta (कर्ता/Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: द्राविड (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन (Plural)

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/Connector)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयबोधक-अव्यय (conjunction)

• महार्णवाः: the Mahārṇavas
• महार्णवाः: Karta (कर्ता/Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: महा (प्रातिपदिक) + अर्णव (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), बहुवचन (Plural); कर्मधारयः (great-ocean [people/region])

Speakers

• Purāṇic narrator (catalogue style); specific interlocutors not indicated in the supplied excerpt

Verse Rasa

{ "primaryRasa": "shanta", "secondaryRasa": "", "rasaIntensity": 0, "emotionalArcPosition": "", "moodDescriptors": [] }

Key Themes

• Cosmography
• Mountain and coastal peoples
• Regional catalogues

FAQs

What is the philosophical or ethical takeaway?

The catalogue closes this segment by spanning mountains to oceans, implying completeness: the inhabited world is conceived as a continuous, ordered domain.

How does this fit the Pancalakshana (5 characteristics)?

Bhū-varṇana (earth-description), an auxiliary Purāṇic layer that supports the larger cosmological narrative.

What is the esoteric significance?

‘Snow-mountain’ to ‘great ocean’ forms a symbolic axis of extremes—stability (mountain) and flux (ocean)—within which human communities arise.