Shloka 62

Adhyaya 4: अहोरात्र-युग-मन्वन्तर-कल्पमान तथा प्रलयान्ते सृष्ट्युपक्रमः

Devanagari script

कृत्वा धरां प्रयत्नेन निम्नोन्नतिविवर्जिताम् धरायां सो ऽचिनोत्सर्वान् गिरीन् दग्धान् पुराग्निना

Transliteration

kṛtvā dharāṃ prayatnena nimnonnativivarjitām dharāyāṃ so 'cinotsarvān girīn dagdhān purāgninā

Translation

เขาได้เพียรพยายามทำแผ่นดินให้ราบ ปราศจากที่ลุ่มและที่สูง แล้วจึงรวบรวมภูเขาทั้งปวงซึ่งถูกไฟดึกดำบรรพ์เผาผลาญไว้ลงบนแผ่นดินนั้น

Word by Word

• कृत्वा (kṛtvā): having made/done

• धराम् (dharām): the earth

• प्रयत्नेन (prayatnena): with effort, deliberately

• निम्न-उन्नति-विवर्जिताम् (nimna-unnati-vivarjitām): devoid of lowlands and high rises, levelled

• धरायाम् (dharāyām): on the earth

• सः (saḥ): he

• अचिनोत् (acinot): gathered, collected, heaped up

• सर्वान् (sarvān): all

• गिरीन् (girīn): mountains

• दग्धान् (dagdhān): burnt, scorched

• पुरा-अग्निना (purāgninā): by the primeval/ancient fire.

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmogonic account to the sages of Naimisharanya)