Shloka 4
शुकस्य मिथिलागमनम् (Śukasya Mithilāgamanam) — Śuka’s Journey to Mithilā and the Courtly Test
ततः शतसहमसारांशुरव्यक्तेनाभिचोदित: । कृत्वा द्वादशधा55त्मानमादित्यो ज्वलदग्निवत्,उस समय वे रुद्रदेव ब्रह्माजीसे प्रेरित होकर प्रचण्ड सूर्यका रूप धारण करते हैं और अपनेको बारह रूपोंमें अभिव्यक्त करके अग्निके समान प्रज्वलित हो उठते हैं
tataḥ śatasahasrāṃśur avyaktenābhicoditaḥ | kṛtvā dvādaśadhātmānam ādityo jvalad-agnivat ||
तेव्हा शतसहस्र किरणांनी युक्त असा सूर्य अव्यक्ताच्या प्रेरणेने आपले प्रचंड तेजस्वी रूप धारण करतो. तो स्वतःला बारा रूपांत प्रकट करून अग्नीसारखा प्रज्वलित होतो.
याज़्वल्क्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse presents cosmic functioning as purposeful and law-governed: the Sun’s immense energy is not random but is ‘impelled by the Unmanifest’ and expressed in an ordered twelvefold manifestation, pointing to an underlying metaphysical principle that sustains dharma and the rhythm of time.
Yājñavalkya describes the Sun being stirred by the Unmanifest principle and then blazing forth, taking on a fierce solar form and manifesting in twelve aspects—an image commonly linked with the Sun’s cyclical, month-based or seasonal operations in the world.