निष्क्रमणम्The first going out
Verse 163
ह्रीँ तच्चक्षुर्देवहितं पुरस्ताच्छुक्रमुच्चरत् । पश्येम शरदः शतं जीवेम शरदः शतम् ॥ १६३ ॥
hrīm̐ taccakṣurdēvahitaṁ purastācchukramuccarat | paśyēma śaradaḥ śataṁ jīvēma śaradaḥ śatam || 163 ||
Translation
"Hrīṁ. That eye, dear to the gods, rising bright in the east: may we see a hundred autumns, may we live a hundred autumns."
Word by word
- hrīm̐
- hrīṁ
- tat
- (tat) that
- cakṣuḥ
- (cakṣuḥ) eye
- dēva
- to the gods
- hitaṁ
- dear
- purastāt
- (purastāt) in the east
- śukram
- (śukram) bright
- uccarat
- rising
- paśyēma
- may we see
- śaradaḥ
- (śaradaḥ) autumns
- śataṁ
- a hundred
- jīvēma
- may we live
- śatam
- (śatam) a hundred
Meaning
A Vedic verse (Ṛgveda 7.66.16) with hrīṁ for oṁ. The "eye" is the Sun, the eye of the world; the commentary reads "śukram uccarat" as "rising, bright". A hundred autumns are a hundred years, the full span of a human life.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
He gives the mantra with which he shows the Sun to the child: "hrīṁ taccakṣuḥ". "Purastāt": in front. "Śukram uccarat": rising bright, going up. That eye, the form of the Sun, which is beneficial to the gods: by it may we see a hundred autumns, a hundred years, and seeing, may we live a hundred autumns. [The Vedic verse taccakṣur devahitam, Ṛgveda 7.66.16, here with hrīṁ.]