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Verse 11

Sita

सा देवी त्रिविधा भवति शक्त्यासना—इच्छाशक्तिः क्रियाशक्तिः साक्षाच्छक्तिरिति। इच्छाशक्तिस्त्रिविधा भवति—श्रीभूमिनीलात्मिका भद्ररूपिणी प्रभावरूपिणी सोमसूर्याग्निरूपा भवति। सोमात्मिका ओषधीनां प्रभवति कल्पवृक्षपुष्पफललतागुल्मात्मिका औषधभेषजात्मिका अमृतरूपा देवानां महस्तोमफलप्रदा अमृतेन तृप्तिं जनयन्ती देवानामन्नेन पशूनां तृणेन तत्तज्जीवानाम्॥११–१३॥

सा । देवी । त्रि-विधा । भवति । शक्ति-आसना । इच्छा-शक्तिः । क्रिया-शक्तिः । साक्षात्-शक्तिः । इति । इच्छा-शक्तिः । त्रि-विधा । भवति । श्री-भूमि-नील-आत्मिका । भद्र-रूपिणी । प्रभाव-रूपिणी । सोम-सूर्य-अग्नि-रूपा । भवति । सोम-आत्मिका । ओषधी-नाम् । प्रभवति । कल्प-वृक्ष-पुष्प-फल-लता-गुल्म-आत्मिका । औषध-भेषज-आत्मिका । अमृत-रूपा । देवानाम् । महा-स्तोम-फल-प्रदा । अमृतेन । तृप्तिम् । जनयन्ती । देवानाम् । अन्नेन । पशूनाम् । तृणेन । तत्-तत्-जीवानाम् ॥११–१३॥

sā devī trividhā bhavati śaktyāsanā—icchāśaktiḥ kriyāśaktiḥ sākṣācchaktir iti | icchāśaktis trividhā bhavati—śrībhūminīlātmikā bhadrarūpiṇī prabhāvarūpiṇī somasūryāgnirūpā bhavati | somātmikā oṣadhīnāṃ prabhavati kalpavṛkṣapuṣpaphalalatāgulmātmikā auṣadhabheṣajātmikā amṛtarūpā devānāṃ mahāstomaphalapradā amṛtena tṛptiṃ janayantī devānām annena paśūnāṃ tṛṇena tattajjīvānām ||11–13||

ထိုဒေဝီသည် စက္တိကို အာသန (တည်ရာ) အဖြစ်ထား၍ သုံးမျိုးဖြစ်လာသည်—အိစ္ဆာစက္တိ (ဆန္ဒစွမ်းအား)၊ ကရိယာစက္တိ (လုပ်ဆောင်စွမ်းအား)၊ နှင့် စာက္ရှာတ်စက္တိ (တိုက်ရိုက်ထင်ရှားသော စွမ်းအား) ဟူ၍။ အိစ္ဆာစက္တိသည်လည်း သုံးမျိုးဖြစ်လာသည်—သရီ၊ ဘူမိ၊ နီလာ အတ္တမန်ဖြစ်၍၊ ဘဒြ (မင်္ဂလာ) ရုပ်သဏ္ဍာန်ဖြစ်၍၊ ပရဘောဝ (တောက်ပသြဇာ) ရုပ်သဏ္ဍာန်ဖြစ်၍၊ ထို့ပြင် ဆိုမ၊ စူရျ (နေ) နှင့် အဂ္နိ (မီး) ရုပ်သဏ္ဍာန်များ ဖြစ်လာသည်။ ဆိုမသဘာဝအဖြစ် နေရာယူသောအခါ အိုသဓိ (အပင်အဆေး) များကို ပေါက်ဖွားစေသည်—ကလ္ပဝೃက္ษ၏ ပန်းနှင့် အသီး၊ လတာနှင့် ဂုလ္မ (လျှောပင်နှင့် ချုံပင်) အဖြစ်; ဆေးဝါးနှင့် ကုထုံးအဖြစ်; အမృత (မသေမပျက်ရည်) အဖြစ်; ဒေဝတို့အား မဟာဆိုမယာဂ၏ အကျိုးဖလကို ပေးအပ်သူအဖြစ်; အမృతဖြင့် ဒေဝတို့ကို တင်းတိမ်စေ၍၊ အစာဖြင့် တိရစ္ဆာန်တို့ကို၊ မြက်ဖြင့် သတ္တဝါတစ်ဦးချင်းစီကို သင့်တော်သလို ကျေနပ်စေသည်။

That Goddess becomes threefold, having power as her seat: the power of will, the power of action, and the power that is immediate (direct) power. The power of will becomes threefold: having the nature of Śrī, Bhūmi, and Nīlā; having the form of auspiciousness; having the form of splendour; she becomes the forms of Soma, Sūrya, and Agni. As Soma in nature she brings forth the plants—having the nature of the wish-fulfilling tree’s flowers and fruits, of creepers and shrubs; having the nature of medicines and remedies; being of the form of nectar; granting to the gods the fruit of great Soma-rites; producing satisfaction by nectar for the gods, by food for cattle, by grass for each respective living being.

Śakti-traya (icchā–kriyā–sākṣāt) and cosmic nourishment as the Divine’s immanent powerMahavakya: Indirectly supports ‘prajnānaṃ brahma’ by treating power/awareness as the immediate divine presence (sākṣāt-śakti), but it is not framed as a direct Mahāvākya statement.AtharvaChandas: Prose