Verse 1

Paramahansaparivrajaka

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

अथ पितामहः स्वपितरम् आदिनारायणम् उपसमेत्य प्रणम्य पप्रच्छ— भगवन्, त्वन्मुखाद् वर्णाश्रमधर्मक्रमं सर्वं श्रुतं विदितम् अवगतम्। इदानीं परमहंसपरिव्राजकलक्षणं वेदितुम् इच्छामि। कः परिव्रजनाधिकारी? कीदृशं परिव्राजकलक्षणम्? कः परमहंसः? परिव्राजकत्वं कथम्? तत्सर्वं मे ब्रूहीति। स होवाच भगवान् आदिनारायणः॥१॥

Padapatha (Word Split)

अथ । पितामहः । स्व-पितरम् । आदिनारायणम् । उपसमेत्य । प्रणम्य । पप्रच्छ । भगवन् । त्वत्-मुखात् । वर्ण-आश्रम-धर्म-क्रमम् । सर्वम् । श्रुतम् । विदितम् । अवगतम् । इदानीम् । परमहंस-परिव्राजक-लक्षणम् । वेदितुम् । इच्छामि । कः । परिव्रजन-अधिकारी । कीदृशम् । परिव्राजक-लक्षणम् । कः । परमहंसः । परिव्राजकत्वम् । कथम् । तत्-सर्वम् । मे । ब्रूहि । इति । सः । ह । उवाच । भगवान् । आदिनारायणः ।

IAST Transliteration

atha pitāmahaḥ svapitaram ādinārāyaṇam upasametya praṇamya papraccha— bhagavan, tvanmukhād varṇāśramadharmakramaṃ sarvaṃ śrutaṃ viditam avagatam | idānīṃ paramahaṃsaparivrājakalakṣaṇaṃ veditum icchāmi | kaḥ parivrajanādhikārī? kīdṛśaṃ parivrājakalakṣaṇam? kaḥ paramahaṃsaḥ? parivrājakatvaṃ katham? tatsarvaṃ me brūhīti | sa hovāca bhagavān ādinārāyaṇaḥ ||1||

Translation

ထို့နောက် ပိတာမဟာသည် မိမိ၏ဖခင် အာဒီနာရာယဏ ထံသို့ ချဉ်းကပ်၍ ဦးညွှတ်ပူဇော်ကာ မေးလျှောက်၏— “အို ဘဂဝန်၊ သင်၏ပါးစပ်မှ ဗර්ဏ–အာශ්ရမ ဓမ္မအစဉ်အလာအားလုံးကို ကျွန်ုပ် ကြားနာပြီး သိမြင်နားလည်ပြီးပါပြီ။ ယခု ပရမဟံသ ပရိဗ္ရာဇက (လှည့်လည်သံဃာ) ၏ လက္ခဏာကို သိလိုပါသည်။ မည်သူက ထွက်ခွာလှည့်လည်ရန် အရည်အချင်းရှိသနည်း။ ပရိဗ္ရာဇက၏ အမှတ်အသားက ဘာလဲ။ ပရမဟံသဆိုသည် မည်သူနည်း။ ပရိဗ္ရာဇကဖြစ်ခြင်းကို မည်သို့ ရောက်ရှိနိုင်သနည်း။ အားလုံးကို ကျွန်ုပ်အား မိန့်ကြားပါ” ဟု။ ထိုသို့ ဘဂဝန် အာဒီနာရာယဏ မိန့်တော်မူ၏။

Academic Translation

Now the Grandsire (Pitāmaha), approaching his own father, Ādi-Nārāyaṇa, bowed and asked: “O Blessed One, from your mouth I have heard, known, and understood the entire sequence of the duties of the social classes and life-stages. Now I wish to know the defining characteristics of the paramahaṃsa wandering renunciant. Who is qualified to wander forth? What is the mark of a wandering renunciant? Who is a paramahaṃsa? How does one attain the state of being a wandering renunciant? Tell me all of that.” Thus spoke the Blessed Ādi-Nārāyaṇa.

Verse Context

• Sannyāsa (paramahaṃsa-parivrājaka) and adhikāra (qualification) for mokṣa-oriented renunciation
• Mahavakya: Indirect—frames the inquiry that culminates in mahāvākya-based Brahman-identity contemplation (e.g., “ahaṃ brahmāsmi”, “tat tvam asi”) in later instructions.
• Atharva
• Chandas: Prose