Shloka 135

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

Devanagari script

तदाचलत्वाद् अचलाः पर्वभिः पर्वताः स्मृताः गिरयो हि निगीर्णत्वाच् छयानत्वाच्छिलोच्चयाः

Transliteration

tadācalatvād acalāḥ parvabhiḥ parvatāḥ smṛtāḥ girayo hi nigīrṇatvāc chayānatvācchiloccayāḥ

Translation

तदाचलत्वादचलाः पर्वभिः पर्वताः स्मृताः। गिरयो हि निगीर्णत्वाच्छयानत्वाच्छिलोच्चयाः॥

Word by Word

• tad-ācalatvāt: because of that immobility

• acalāḥ: immovable ones (mountains)

• parvabhiḥ: by ridges/knots/joints

• parvatāḥ: mountains

• smṛtāḥ: are known/remembered

• girayaḥ: mountains (giri)

• hi: indeed

• nigīrṇatvāt: because of being ‘swallowed’/massive and engulfing (in form)

• chayānatvāt: because of lying spread out/being heaped

• śilā-uccayāḥ: heaps/accumulations of rock

Speaker

Suta Goswami