Shloka 9

मेरोर्दिग्वर्णनम् / Digvarṇana of Meru: Uttara-Kuru, Bhadrāśva, and Jambūdvīpa Motifs

Devanagari script

एकं मणिमयं तत्र तथैकं रौक्ममद्धभुतम्‌ । सर्वरत्नमयं चैक॑ भवनैरुपशोभितम्‌,मनुजेश्वर! वहाँ शृंगवान्‌ पर्वतके तीन ही विचित्र शिखर हैं। उनमेंसे एक मणिमय है, दूसरा अद्भुत सुवर्णमय है तथा तीसरा अनेक भवनोंसे सुशोभित एवं सर्वरत्नमय है

Transliteration

ekaṁ maṇimayaṁ tatra tathaikaṁ raukmam adbhutam | sarvaratnamayaṁ caikaṁ bhavanair upaśobhitam, manujeśvara |

Translation

သဉ္ဇယက ပြောသည်— «အို လူတို့အကြား အရှင်! ထို ချိုတောင်ပေါ်၌ အံ့ဖွယ် တောင်ထိပ် သုံးခု ရှိသည်။ ထိုထဲမှ တစ်ခုသည် မဏိရတနာဖြစ်၍၊ တစ်ခုသည် အံ့ဩဖွယ် ရွှေရောင်ဖြစ်ကာ၊ တတိယတစ်ခုသည် အိမ်တော်များစွာဖြင့် အလှဆင်ထားသဖြင့် ရတနာအမျိုးမျိုးဖြင့် ပြုလုပ်ထားသကဲ့သို့ တောက်ပလျက် ရှိသည်»။

Word by Word

• एकम्: one
• एकम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एक
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• मणिमयम्: made of gems
• मणिमयम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: मणिमय
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• तत्र: there
• तत्र: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तत्र

• तथा: likewise/also
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा

• एकम्: one (another)
• एकम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एक
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• रौक्मम्: golden
• रौक्मम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: रौक्म
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• अद्भुतम्: marvellous/wondrous
• अद्भुतम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अद्भुत
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• सर्वरत्नमयम्: made of all kinds of jewels
• सर्वरत्नमयम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्वरत्नमय
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• एकम्: one (a third)
• एकम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एक
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• भवनैः: with buildings/mansions
• भवनैः: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: भवन
• Form: Neuter, Instrumental, Plural

• उपशोभितम्: adorned/beautified
• उपशोभितम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: उपशोभित
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• मनुजेश्वर: O lord of men (O king)
• Type: Noun
• Root: मनुजेश्वर
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• manujeśvara (the king addressed, i.e., Dhṛtarāṣṭra)
• śṛṅgavān parvata (horned mountain)
• three peaks (śikhara)
• gem-peak (maṇimaya)
• golden peak (raukma)
• jewel-peak with mansions (sarvaratnamaya, bhavana-upaśobhita)