Shloka 7

Devanagari script

अथागम्य महाराज नमस्कृत्य च कश्यपम्‌ | पृथिवी काश्यपी जज्ञे सुता तस्य महात्मन:

Transliteration

athāgamya mahārāja namaskṛtya ca kaśyapam | pṛthivī kāśyapī jajñe sutā tasya mahātmanaḥ ||

Translation

大王啊！其后，大地自梵天界归来，前来礼拜迦叶波圣者，遂生为彼大德之女。自此，她便得名“迦叶毗（Kāśyapī）”。

Word by Word

• अथ: then
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अथ

• आगम्य: having come/returned
• Type: Verb
• Root: आ-गम्
• Form: ल्यप् (absolutive/gerund), कर्तरि

• महाराज: O great king
• Type: Noun
• Root: महाराज
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• नमस्कृत्य: having saluted
• Type: Verb
• Root: नमस्-कृ
• Form: ल्यप् (absolutive/gerund), कर्तरि

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• कश्यपम्: Kashyapa
• कश्यपम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: कश्यप
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• पृथिवी: the Earth
• पृथिवी: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पृथिवी
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• काश्यपी: Kashyapi (named so / belonging to Kashyapa)
• काश्यपी: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: काश्यपी
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• जज्ञे: was born / came to be
• Type: Verb
• Root: जन्
• Form: लिट् (perfect), आत्मनेपद, Third, Singular

• सुता: daughter
• सुता: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: सुता
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• तस्य: of him
• तस्य: Sambandha
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Singular

• महात्मनः: of the great-souled one
• महात्मनः: Sambandha
• Type: Noun
• Root: महात्मन्
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

Speaker

अजुन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Arjuna
• Kaśyapa
• Pṛthivī (Earth)
• Kāśyapī

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights dharmic humility and proper relationship: even the Earth is portrayed as honouring a worthy sage through reverence (namaskāra) and accepting a rightful identity (as Kaśyapa’s daughter), suggesting that stability and legitimacy arise from respect for spiritual authority and cosmic order.

What is happening in the narrative?

Arjuna narrates that the Earth returns, bows to the sage Kaśyapa, and becomes his daughter; consequently she receives the epithet ‘Kāśyapī,’ indicating her association with Kaśyapa.