Shloka 195

Adhyaya 70: आदिसर्गः—महत्-अहङ्कार-तन्मात्रा-भूतसृष्टिः, ब्रह्माण्डावरणम्, प्रजासर्गः, त्रिमूर्ति-शैवाधिष्ठानम्

Devanagari script

प्रजां धर्मं च कामं च त्यक्त्वा वैराग्यमास्थितौ यथोत्पन्नः स एवेह कुमारः स इहोच्यते

Transliteration

prajāṃ dharmaṃ ca kāmaṃ ca tyaktvā vairāgyamāsthitau yathotpannaḥ sa eveha kumāraḥ sa ihocyate

Translation

ਸੰਤਾਨ, (ਸੰਸਾਰਿਕ) ਧਰਮ-ਕਰਤਵ ਅਤੇ ਕਾਮ ਨੂੰ ਤਿਆਗ ਕੇ ਉਹ ਵੈਰਾਗ ਵਿੱਚ ਟਿਕਿਆ ਰਹਿੰਦਾ ਹੈ। ਜਿਵੇਂ ਜਨਮ ਵੇਲੇ ਨਿਰਮਲ ਸੀ, ਓਹੋ ਜਿਹਾ ਹੀ ਰਹਿਣ ਕਰਕੇ ਇੱਥੇ ਉਹ ‘ਕੁਮਾਰ’ ਕਿਹਾ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ।

Word by Word

• प्रजाम्: progeny/offspring

• धर्मम्: worldly duty/ritual-social obligation (dharma)

• च: and

• कामम्: desire/pleasure (kāma)

• च: and

• त्यक्त्वा: having abandoned

• वैराग्यम्: dispassion/renunciation

• आस्थितौ: having taken refuge in/established in

• यथा-उत्पन्नः: as born, in the original state

• सः: he

• एव: indeed

• इह: here/in this context

• कुमारः: Kumāra (the ever-youthful renunciate)

• सः: he

• इह-उच्यते: is here said/called

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Purana to the sages of Naimisharanya, describing the Kumara ideal)