भरद्वाज उवाच । एतदुक्तं भगवता यथा रामायणं कुरु । सर्वलोकहितार्थाय संसारार्णवतारकम् ॥ १९ ॥
bharadvāja uvāca | ētaduktaṁ bhagavatā yathā rāmāyaṇaṁ kuru | sarvalōkahitārthāya saṁsārārṇavatārakam || 19 ||
Translation
Bharadvāja said: The Lord said this: "Make a Rāmāyaṇa for the good of all the world, which carries one across the ocean of worldly life."
Word by word
- bharadvāja
- Bharadvāja
- uvāca
- said
- ētat
- this
- uktaṁ
- was said
- bhagavatā
- by the Lord
- yathā
- that
- rāmāyaṇaṁ
- a Rāmāyaṇa
- kuru
- make
- sarva
- all
- lōka
- the world
- hita
- the good
- arthāya
- for
- saṁsāra
- worldly life
- arṇava
- the ocean of
- tārakam
- which carries across
Meaning
The commentary reads this as a second Rāmāyaṇa. The first, of six books, taught dharma through Rāma's deeds; this "later Rāmāyaṇa", in six prakaraṇas, teaches knowledge.