मम पुण्याश्रमात्तस्मात् क्षणादन्तर्द्धिमागतः । मुहूर्त्ताभ्युत्थितः प्रोच्चैस्तरङ्ग इव वारिणि ॥ १६ ॥
mama puṇyāśramāttasmāt kṣaṇādantarddhimāgataḥ | muhūrttābhyutthitaḥ prōccaistaraṅga iva vāriṇi || 16 ||
Translation
In a moment he vanished from my holy hermitage, like a wave that rises high in the water for an instant.
Word by word
- mama
- my
- puṇya
- holy
- āśramāt
- from the hermitage
- tasmāt
- that
- kṣaṇāt
- in a moment
- antarddhim
- vanishing
- āgataḥ
- he went into
- muhūrtta
- for an instant
- abhyutthitaḥ
- risen
- prōccaiḥ
- high
- taraṅgaḥ
- a wave
- iva
- like
- vāriṇi
- in the water
Meaning
A wave rises and sinks back into the water it never left: the commentary sees in the simile a hint of the teaching, that forms appear in the one reality and return to it.