एकदेशोल्लसच्चारुवडवानलपङ्कजा । क्रीडापुष्करिणी रम्या कल्पकालमहार्णवः ॥ ३ ॥
ēkadēśōllasaccāruvaḍavānalapaṅkajā | krīḍāpuṣkariṇī ramyā kalpakālamahārṇavaḥ || 3 ||
Translation
his pleasure-pond is the lovely great ocean of the end of the aeon, in one part of which the bright lotus of the submarine fire blooms;
Word by word
- ēka
- in one
- dēśa
- part
- ullasat
- blooms
- cāru
- the bright
- vaḍavānala
- of the submarine fire
- paṅkajā
- lotus
- krīḍā
- pleasure
- puṣkariṇī
- his pond
- ramyā
- lovely
- kalpa
- of the aeon
- kāla
- end
- mahā
- great
- arṇavaḥ
- the ocean
Meaning
A prince has a pleasure pond in his gardens. Time's pond is the cosmic ocean that floods the world at the end of the kalpa, and in one corner of it the vāḍava fire (1.23.4) blooms like a red lotus. The destruction of the world is his garden pool. The reader is shown how differently the same event looks from Time's side and from ours.