प्रकृतिस्त्वं च सर्वस्य गुणत्रयविभाविनी। कालरात्रिर्महारात्रिर्मोहरात्रिश्च दारुणा ॥ ७ ॥
prakṛtistvaṁ ca sarvasya guṇatrayavibhāvinī | kālarātrirmahārātrirmōharātriśca dāruṇā || 7 ||
Translation
You are the primal nature of all, who brings forth the three qualities; you are the Night of Time, the Great Night, and the terrible Night of Delusion.
Word by word
- prakṛtiḥ
- primal nature
- tvam
- you
- ca
- and
- sarvasya
- of all
- guṇatrayavibhāvinī
- who brings forth the three qualities
- kālarātriḥ
- the Night of Time (dissolution)
- mahārātriḥ
- the Great Night
- mōharātriḥ
- the Night of Delusion
- dāruṇā
- terrible
Meaning
Prakṛti is nature in its first form, from which the three qualities of goodness, passion and inertia unfold. The three Nights name the Goddess as darkness at every scale: the night that ends an age, the great night of final dissolution, and the night of delusion that clouds the mind.