Shloka 32

अश्वशिरो-आख्यानम्

Aśvaśiras / Hayaśiras Narrative: Retrieval of the Vedas

Devanagari script

तां योनिमावयोर्विद्धि योडसौ सदसदात्मक: । आवाभ्यां पूज्यतेडसौ हि दैवे पित्रये च कल्प्यते,वह सदसत्स्वरूप परमात्मा ही हम दोनोंकी उत्पत्तिका कारण है, इस बातको जान लो। हम दोनों उसीकी पूजा करते तथा उसीको देवता और पितर मानते हैं

Transliteration

tāṁ yonim āvayor viddhi yo 'sau sadasad-ātmakaḥ | āvābhyāṁ pūjyate 'sau hi daive pitrye ca kalpyate ||

Translation

当知：彼即为我二者之本源——为因、为胎——其性兼摄显与不显、有与无、真与非真。正是这至上我（最高自性），为我二人所同敬同礼；在诸天祭仪中，人以彼为神祇；在祖灵（pitṛ）祭仪中，人以彼为祖先。

Word by Word

ताम्that (her/that one)

योनिम्source, womb, origin

आवयोःof us two

विद्धिknow (you), understand

यःwho

असौthat (yonder) one

सत्-असत्-आत्मकःhaving the nature of being and non-being

आवाभ्याम्by us two

पूज्यतेis worshipped

असौthat one

हिindeed, for

दैवेin/with regard to the divine rite (for gods)

पित्र्येin/with regard to the ancestral rite (for pitṛs)

चand

कल्प्यतेis regarded/appointed (as), is considered

Speaker

नारद उवाच

Characters & Entities

Nārada

Paramātman (Supreme Self)

Devas (gods)

Pitṛs (ancestors/manes)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Nārada teaches that the Supreme Self is the ultimate cause of all origins and transcends yet includes both sat (manifest being) and asat (unmanifest/non-being). The same Supreme is worshipped through both deva-rites and pitṛ-rites, indicating a single highest reality behind diverse ritual forms.

What is happening in the narrative?

Speaking as a spiritual authority, Nārada instructs his listener to recognize the one Supreme principle as the shared origin of ‘both of us’ and to understand that customary worship directed to gods and ancestors ultimately refers to that same highest Self.