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Shloka 33

Tīrtha-Sevana and the Cursed Apsaras

Grāha-Encounter at Saubhadra Tīrtha

तैस्तैरविंहारैर्बहुभिदैत्यानां कामरूपिणाम्‌ | समा: संक्रीडतां तेषामहरेकमिवाभवत्‌,इच्छानुसार रूप धारण करनेवाले वे दैत्य वर्षोतक भाँति-भाँतिके खेल-कूद और आमोद-प्रमोद करनेमें लगे रहे; किंतु वह सारा समय उन्हें एक दिनके समान लगा

taistair avihārair bahubhir daityānāṁ kāmarūpiṇām | samāḥ saṅkrīḍatāṁ teṣām ahar ekam ivābhavat |

ด้วยความบันเทิงหลากหลายเช่นนั้น เหล่าดานวะผู้แปลงกายได้ตามใจยังคงเล่นสนุกและเสพสุขไม่หยุดหย่อน; สำหรับพวกเขา แม้กาลเป็นปี ๆ ก็ผ่านไปราวกับเพียงวันเดียว

तैःby those
तैः:
Karana
TypePronoun
Rootतद्
Formmasculine/neuter, instrumental, plural
तैःby those (various)
तैः:
Karana
TypePronoun
Rootतद्
Formmasculine/neuter, instrumental, plural
अविंहारैःwith/through various sports/pleasures (reading uncertain)
अविंहारैः:
Karana
TypeNoun
Rootअविंहार
Formmasculine, instrumental, plural
बहुभिःby many
बहुभिः:
Karana
TypeAdjective
Rootबहु
Formmasculine/neuter, instrumental, plural
दैत्यानाम्of the Daityas (demons)
दैत्यानाम्:
Adhikarana
TypeNoun
Rootदैत्य
Formmasculine, genitive, plural
कामरूपिणाम्of those who assume forms at will
कामरूपिणाम्:
Adhikarana
TypeAdjective
Rootकामरूपिन्
Formmasculine, genitive, plural
समाःyears
समाः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootसम
Formmasculine, nominative, plural
संक्रीडताम्of those playing/sporting
संक्रीडताम्:
Adhikarana
TypeVerb
Rootसंक्रीड्
Formpresent active participle (śatṛ), masculine, genitive, plural
तेषाम्to/for them; of them
तेषाम्:
Sampradana
TypePronoun
Rootतद्
Formmasculine/neuter, genitive, plural
अहःa day
अहः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootअहन्
Formneuter, nominative, singular
एकम्one
एकम्:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootएक
Formneuter, nominative, singular
इवas if/like
इव:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootइव
अभवत्became/was
अभवत्:
TypeVerb
Rootभू
Formimperfect (laṅ), 3rd, singular, parasmaipada

नारद उवाच

N
Nārada
D
Daityas

Educational Q&A

Intense immersion in pleasure and desire can distort one’s sense of time—years feel like a day—yet such enjoyment does not free one; it reinforces attachment and delusion.

Nārada describes the shape-shifting Daityas engaging in many kinds of sports and enjoyments, so absorbed that long stretches of time (years) seem to them to pass like a single day.