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Verse 28
ततोऽर्घ्यपात्रमानीय फट्कारेण विशोधितम् । आधारे स्थापयित्वा तु कलाः सूर्यस्य द्वादश । कभादिवर्णबीजेन ठडान्तेन प्रपूजयेत् ॥ २८ ॥
tatō’rghyapātramānīya phaṭkārēṇa viśōdhitam | ādhārē sthāpayitvā tu kalāḥ sūryasya dvādaśa | kabhādivarṇabījēna ṭhaḍāntēna prapūjayēt || 28 ||
Translation
Then bringing the arghya vessel, purified with phaṭ, and setting it on the stand, he should worship the twelve kalās of the sun with the letter-seeds beginning with ka and bha and ending with ṭha and ḍa.
Word by word
- tatō
- (tataḥ) then
- arghya
- arghya
- pātram
- vessel
- ānīya
- bringing
- phaṭ
- phaṭ
- kārēṇa
- with the syllable
- viśōdhitam
- purified
- ādhārē
- on the stand
- sthāpayitvā
- setting
- tu
- and
- kalāḥ
- kalās
- sūryasya
- of the sun
- dvādaśa
- twelve
- ka
- ka
- bha
- bha
- ādi
- beginning with
- varṇa
- letter
- bījēna
- with the seed
- ṭha
- ṭha
- ḍa
- ḍa
- antēna
- ending with
- prapūjayēt
- should worship
Meaning
Each kalā of the sun takes a pair of letters, one counting forward from ka, one backward from bha: kaṁ bhaṁ, khaṁ baṁ … ṭhaṁ ḍaṁ, as the commentary lists them in the next verse.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Then, after that, bringing the arghya vessel purified with phaṭ-kāra, the mantra phaṭ, and setting it on the stand, he should worship there the twelve kalās of the sun with the seeds that are the letters beginning with ka and bha and ending with ṭha and ḍa, with the anusvāra, each with its name-mantra in the dative ending in namaḥ.