Shloka 8

Adhyaya 72 — Puradāha: Rudra’s Cosmic Chariot, Pāśupata-Vrata, and Brahmā’s Shiva-Stuti

Devanagari script

मुहूर्ता बन्धुरास्तस्य शम्याश्चैव कलाः स्मृताः तस्य काष्ठाः स्मृता घोणा चाक्षदण्डाः क्षणाश् च वै

Transliteration

muhūrtā bandhurāstasya śamyāścaiva kalāḥ smṛtāḥ tasya kāṣṭhāḥ smṛtā ghoṇā cākṣadaṇḍāḥ kṣaṇāś ca vai

Translation

Para essa contagem do tempo, os muhūrtas são ensinados como suas unidades ‘bandhurā’; e as śamyās são lembradas como kalās. Do mesmo modo, suas divisões menores são declaradas kāṣṭhās, ghoṇās, akṣa-daṇḍas e também kṣaṇas (instantes).

Word by Word

• मुहूर्ताः: muhūrtas (fixed time-periods)

• बन्धुराः: bandhurā units/denominations (named subdivisions)

• तस्य: of that (time-reckoning)

• शम्याः: śamyā divisions (a named measure)

• च एव: and indeed

• कलाः: kalās (parts/minutes

• स्मृताः: remembered/traditionally stated

• तस्य: of that (same system)

• काष्ठाः: kāṣṭhās (small time-units)

• स्मृताः: stated/known

• घोणा: ghoṇā (a named minute subdivision)

• च: and

• अक्षदण्डाः: akṣa-daṇḍas (a named time-measure)

• क्षणाः: kṣaṇas (instants/moments)

• च वै: and also/indeed.

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Purana to the sages of Naimisharanya)