प्रतिमा-गृह जलाशयादि प्रतिष्ठाफलम्The fruit of installing images, houses, reservoirs and the rest
Verse 37
सुदृढश्छिद्ररहितः सरलः शुभदर्शनः । वेष्टितो रक्तवस्त्रेण कोटौ चक्रसमन्वितः ॥ ३७ ॥
sudṛḍhaśchidrarahitaḥ saralaḥ śubhadarśanaḥ | vēṣṭitō raktavastrēṇa kōṭau cakrasamanvitaḥ || 37 ||
Translation
…very strong, without a crack, straight, fair to look on, wrapped in red cloth and with a discus at its top.
Word by word
- sudṛḍhaḥ
- (sudṛḍhaḥ) very strong
- chidra
- a crack
- rahitaḥ
- (rahitaḥ) without
- saralaḥ
- (saralaḥ) straight
- śubha
- fair
- darśanaḥ
- (darśanaḥ) to look on
- vēṣṭitaḥ
- (veṣṭitaḥ) wrapped
- rakta
- in red
- vastrēṇa
- cloth
- kōṭau
- at its top
- cakra
- a discus
- samanvitaḥ
- (samanvitaḥ) with
Meaning
The staff must be sound and straight; the commentary glosses "koṭau" as "at the top", where the cakra, the wheel-emblem, is fixed.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
See the commentary on verse 36.