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

अग्निरूपा ती देवी अन्न-पान इत्यादींवर अवलंबून प्राण्यांमध्ये क्षुधा व तृष्णा अशी आहे; देवांमध्ये मुखरूपाने आहे; वनौषधी व वनस्पतींमध्ये शीत-उष्ण रूपाने आहे; आणि काष्ठामध्ये आत व बाहेर, नित्य व अनित्य—अशा दोन्ही रूपांनी प्रकट होते।

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