Shloka 17

ययातिना पूरौ राज्याभिषेकः, दिक्प्रदानं, तृष्णा-वैराग्योपदेशः, वनप्रवेशः च

Devanagari script

हविषा कृष्णवर्त्मेव भूय एवाभिवर्धते यत्पृथिव्यां व्रीहियवं हिरण्यं पशवः स्त्रियः

Transliteration

haviṣā kṛṣṇavartmeva bhūya evābhivardhate yatpṛthivyāṃ vrīhiyavaṃ hiraṇyaṃ paśavaḥ striyaḥ

Translation

ਹਵਿਸ (ਆਹੁਤੀ) ਨਾਲ ਉਹ ਮੁੜ ਮੁੜ ਵਧਦਾ ਹੈ—ਜਿਵੇਂ ਕਾਲਾ, ਬਹੁਤ ਤੁਰਿਆ ਰਾਹ ਹੋਰ ਪੱਕਾ ਹੋ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ; ਇਸ ਕਰਕੇ ਧਰਤੀ ਉੱਤੇ ਚੌਲ-ਜੌ, ਸੋਨਾ, ਪਸ਼ੂ ਅਤੇ ਇਸਤ੍ਰੀਆਂ—ਅਰਥਾਤ ਸਮ੍ਰਿੱਧੀ—ਉਪਜਦੀ ਹੈ।

Word by Word

• हविषा (haviṣā): by oblations/ritual offering

• कृष्णवर्त्म (kṛṣṇavartma): dark track/blackened path (well-worn course)

• इव (iva): like

• भूयः (bhūyaḥ): again, repeatedly

• एव (eva): indeed

• अभिवर्धते (abhivardhate): grows, increases

• यत् (yat): whereby/so that

• पृथिव्याम् (pṛthivyām): on the earth

• व्रीहियवम् (vrīhi-yavam): rice and barley (grain wealth)

• हिरण्यम् (hiraṇyam): gold

• पशवः (paśavaḥ): cattle/animals (livestock wealth)

• स्त्रियः (striyaḥ): women (wives/household prosperity, lineage-continuity).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages at Naimisharanya; internal context on yajna/puja fruits inferred)