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Shloka 18

Go-mahātmyam: Pavitrāṇāṃ Pavitraṃ

Cows and Ghee as Supreme Purifiers

सासृजत्‌ सौरभेयीस्तु सुरभिलोकमातृका: । सुवर्णवर्णा: कपिला: प्रजानां वृत्तिधेनव:

sāsṛjat saurabheyīs tu surabhilokamātṛkāḥ | suvarṇavarṇāḥ kapilāḥ prajānāṃ vṛttidhenavaḥ ||

ဘီရှ္မက ပြောသည်– «စူရဘီသည် ‘စော်ရဘေယီ’ ဟု ခေါ်သော နွားမများစွာကို မွေးဖွားစေခဲ့ရာ၊ ၎င်းတို့သည် ကမ္ဘာလောကအတွက် မိခင်တော်များကဲ့သို့ ဖြစ်ကြ၏။ ၎င်းတို့၏ အရောင်သည် ရွှေရောင်ကဲ့သို့ တောက်ပ၍ ကပီလာ (အညိုဝါ) ရောင်ဖြစ်ကာ၊ သတ္တဝါတို့၏ အသက်မွေးဝမ်းကျောင်းနှင့် အာဟာရကို ထောက်ပံ့ပေးသော နို့ပေးနွားများ ဖြစ်ကြ၏။»

साshe (Surabhi)
सा:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
FormFeminine, Nominative, Singular
असृजत्created, produced
असृजत्:
TypeVerb
Rootसृज्
FormImperfect (Laṅ), 3rd, Singular
सौरभेयीःSaurabheyī cows (descendants of Surabhi)
सौरभेयीः:
Karma
TypeNoun
Rootसौरभेयी (प्रातिपदिक)
FormFeminine, Accusative, Plural
तुindeed, but
तु:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootतु
सुरभि-लोक-मातृकाःhaving Surabhi-world as (their) mother; mother-like for Surabhi’s world
सुरभि-लोक-मातृकाः:
TypeNoun
Rootमातृका (प्रातिपदिक)
FormFeminine, Nominative, Plural
सुवर्ण-वर्णाःgolden-colored
सुवर्ण-वर्णाः:
TypeAdjective
Rootवर्ण (प्रातिपदिक)
FormFeminine, Nominative, Plural
कपिलाःtawny, reddish-brown (cows)
कपिलाः:
TypeAdjective
Rootकपिल (प्रातिपदिक)
FormFeminine, Nominative, Plural
प्रजानाम्of creatures/subjects
प्रजानाम्:
TypeNoun
Rootप्रजा (प्रातिपदिक)
FormFeminine, Genitive, Plural
वृत्ति-धेनवःcows that are a means of livelihood (milk-giving sustainers)
वृत्ति-धेनवः:
TypeNoun
Rootधेनु (प्रातिपदिक)
FormFeminine, Nominative, Plural

भीष्म उवाच

B
Bhishma (speaker)
S
Surabhi
S
Saurabheyī cows
K
Kapilā cows

Educational Q&A

The verse presents an ethical model of dharmic creation: resources (symbolized by cows) are brought forth to nourish and sustain society. It highlights the ideal of providing livelihood and welfare for all beings, framing the cow as a maternal, sustaining presence.

Bhishma describes Surabhi generating many Saurabheyī cows—golden-hued, tawny milch-cows—whose purpose is to support living beings by providing sustenance and livelihood.