Shloka 5
स्कन्दग्रहवर्णनम् (Skanda-graha-varṇanam) — Description and Pacification of the Skanda-afflictions
यां कपर्दिसुतामाहुर्दृश्यादृश्येति देहिन: । तनुत्वात् सा सिनीवाली तृतीयाज्धिरस: सुता,अंगिराकी तीसरी पुत्री 'सिनीवाली” (चतुर्दशीयुक्ता अमावास्या) है जो अत्यन्त कृश होनेके कारण कभी दीखती है और कभी नहीं दीखती; इसीलिये लोग उसे “दृश्यादृश्या' कहते हैं। भगवान् रुद्र उसे ललाटमें धारण करते हैं, इस कारण उसे सब लोग “रूद्रसुता, भी कहते हैं
yāṃ kapardisutām āhur dṛśyādṛśyeti dehinaḥ | tanutvāt sā sinīvālī tṛtīyāṅgirasaḥ sutā ||
Wika ni Mārkaṇḍeya: “Yaong tinatawag ng mga nilalang na may katawan na ‘nakikita-ngunit-di-nakikita’—ang anak na babae ni Kapardin—siya si Sinīvālī, ang ikatlong anak na babae ni Aṅgiras. Sapagkat siya’y lubhang payat at banayad, kung minsan ay nakikita at kung minsan ay hindi; kaya’t tinatawag siya ng mga tao na ‘dṛśyādṛśyā’ (nakikita ngunit di-nakikita).”
मार्कण्डेय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how names and descriptions arise from observed qualities: Sinīvālī is called ‘visible-and-invisible’ because her extreme slenderness makes her appear intermittently. It reflects a broader Indic habit of linking identity, epithet, and function to perceptible traits and cosmic rhythms (here, lunar phases).
Mārkaṇḍeya is explaining a mythic genealogy and characterization: Sinīvālī is identified as Kapardin’s daughter and the third daughter of Aṅgiras, and her epithet ‘dṛśyādṛśyā’ is justified by her intermittent visibility.