मूलप्रकृतेः रूपकल्पनायां युक्तिःWhy a form is imagined for Mūlaprakṛti
Verse 9
ग्रसनात् सर्वसत्त्वानां कालदन्तेन चर्वणात् । तद्रक्तसङ्घो देवेश्याः वासोरूपेण भाषितम् ॥ ९ ॥
grasanāt sarvasattvānāṁ kāladantēna carvaṇāt | tadraktasaṅghō dēvēśyāḥ vāsōrūpēṇa bhāṣitam || 9 ||
Translation
Because she swallows all creatures and chews them with the tooth of time, the mass of their blood is spoken of as the garment of the queen of the gods.
Word by word
- grasanāt
- because of swallowing
- sarva
- all
- sattvānāṁ
- creatures
- kāla
- of time
- dantēna
- with the tooth
- carvaṇāt
- because of chewing
- tad
- (tat) their
- rakta
- blood
- saṅghaḥ
- (saṅghaḥ) the mass
- dēvēśyāḥ
- of the queen of the gods
- vāsaḥ
- (vāsaḥ) of a garment
- rūpēṇa
- in the form
- bhāṣitam
- is spoken of
Meaning
Her red garment is the blood of every creature she devours at the dissolution. The commentary glosses "kāladantena" as "with the tooth that is time": time itself is the tooth that grinds all beings.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Sarvasattvānām: of all creatures without remainder. Kāladantena: with the tooth that is time. Tadraktasaṅghaḥ: the mass of the blood of all creatures.