Shloka 15

Adhyaya 61 — ग्रह-नक्षत्र-स्थाननिर्णयः

Cosmic Abodes of Luminaries and the Shaiva Order of Time

Devanagari script

अतीतैस्तु सहैतानि भाव्याभाव्यैः सुरैः सह वर्तन्ते वर्तमानैश् च स्थानिभिस्तैः सुरैः सह

Transliteration

atītaistu sahaitāni bhāvyābhāvyaiḥ suraiḥ saha vartante vartamānaiś ca sthānibhistaiḥ suraiḥ saha

Translation

भूतकाळातील देवांसह, पुढे होणाऱ्या व न होणाऱ्या देवांसह, तसेच वर्तमानकाळी आपल्या पदावर स्थित देवांसह—ही कार्ये व स्थानें अखंडपणे चालू राहतात।

Word by Word

• atītaiḥ: with those of the past

• tu: indeed

• saha: together with

• etāni: these (orders/functions)

• bhāvya-abhāvyaiḥ: with those who are to be and not to be (yet-to-arise and non-arising)

• suraiḥ: with the devas

• saha: together with

• vartante: continue/prevail/operate

• vartamānaiḥ: with those existing in the present

• ca: and

• sthānibhiḥ: with the holders of stations/offices

• taiḥ: with those

• suraiḥ: devas

• saha: together

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Purana to the sages of Naimisharanya, summarizing the continuity of deva-offices under Shiva’s cosmic order)