Shloka 22

Adhyaya 75 — The Fall and Restoration of Revatī Nakṣatra and the Birth of Raivata Manu

Sanskrit

रेवत्यृक्षञ्च पतितं कुमुदाद्रौ समन्ततः ।

भावयामास सहसा वनकन्दरनिर्झरम् ॥

Transliteration

revatyṛkṣañ ca patitaṃ kumudādrau samantataḥ / bhāvayāmāsa sahasā vanakandaranirjharam

Translation

Và gấu Revatī ấy, sau khi rơi xuống núi Kumuda, lập tức làm hiện khắp chung quanh những khu rừng, hang động và các dòng suối.

Word by Word

• revatyṛkṣam: the Revatī-asterism
• revatyṛkṣam: Karma (कर्म/object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: revatī + ṛkṣa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/connector)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयार्थक-अव्यय (conjunction)

• patitam: fallen
• patitam: Visheshana (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: √pat (पत्) (कृदन्त)
• Form: भूतकृदन्त (past participle), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन; revatyṛkṣam qualifies

• kumudādrau: on Mount Kumuda
• kumudādrau: Adhikarana (अधिकरण/location)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kumuda + adri (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (kumudasya adriḥ)

• samantataḥ: all around
• samantataḥ: Kriya-visheshana (क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: samantataḥ (अव्यय)
• Form: देशवाचक-अव्यय (adverb of place)

• bhāvayāmāsa: caused to arise/produced
• bhāvayāmāsa: Kriya (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √bhū (भू) caus. √bhāvaya (भावय)
• Form: लिट् (Perfect), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन, परस्मैपद; णिच् (causative): ‘caused to become/produced’

• sahasā: suddenly
• sahasā: Kriya-visheshana (क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: sahasā (अव्यय)
• Form: क्रियाविशेषण-अव्यय (adverb)

• vana-kandara-nirjharam: a forest-cave waterfall/stream
• vana-kandara-nirjharam: Karma (कर्म/object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vana + kandara + nirjhara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन; बहुपद-तत्पुरुषः: ‘vanasya kandarāyāṃ nirjharaḥ’ (waterfall in a forest-cave)

Speakers

• Markandeya narrating

Verse Rasa

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Key Themes

• Etiology of sacred geography
• Nature as consequence of narrative events
• Metamorphosis into landscape

FAQs

What is the philosophical or ethical takeaway?

Purāṇic thought links moral/narrative causality with the world’s features: geography is not inert but meaningful, carrying memory of events and serving as a didactic landscape.

How does this fit the Pancalakṣaṇa (5 characteristics)?

Not sarga/pratisarga; this is tīrtha/kshetra-etiology within the broader purāṇic narrative tradition, adjacent to Vamśānucarita (accounts of persons leading to place-features).

What is the esoteric significance?

Forests, caves, and springs symbolize latent spiritual resources (guha = inner cave; nirjhara = flowing prāṇa/insight) emerging when a being’s state ‘grounds’ into the earth-plane.