भुजशाखो घनस्कन्धो द्विजस्तम्भशुभस्थितिः । लोचनालिबिलाक्रान्तः शिरःपीठबृहत्फलः ॥ ६ ॥
bhujaśākhō ghanaskandhō dvijastambhaśubhasthitiḥ | lōcanālibilākrāntaḥ śiraḥpīṭhabṛhatphalaḥ || 6 ||
Translation
with arms for branches, a stout trunk, standing well on the pillar of its teeth, full of hollows that are the eyes, the head on its seat its great fruit,
Word by word
- bhuja
- with arms
- śākhō
- (śākhaḥ) for branches
- ghana
- a stout
- skandhō
- (skandhaḥ) trunk
- dvija
- of its teeth
- stambha
- on the pillar
- śubha
- well
- sthitiḥ
- standing
- lōcana
- the eyes
- āli
- hollows
- bila
- with the holes
- ākrāntaḥ
- full of
- śiraḥ
- the head
- pīṭha
- on its seat
- bṛhat
- great
- phalaḥ
- its fruit
Meaning
The tree continues. Its arms are branches, its torso a thick trunk, its teeth the pillars where birds perch, its eyes the hollows in the bark, and its head, set on the neck, the great fruit at the top. The commentary reads each part and adds that, as a tree is felled by an axe, so is the body by a weapon. The reader is meant to see the body from outside for a moment, as one sees a tree: a thing of parts, standing for a time, which can be cut down.