अदृश्याम्बरसिद्धौघकरोत्करसमीरिता । सा मुहूर्तचतुर्भागं पुष्पवृष्टिः पपात ह ॥ २२ ॥
adṛśyāmbarasiddhaughakarōtkarasamīritā | sā muhūrtacaturbhāgaṁ puṣpavṛṣṭiḥ papāta ha || 22 ||
Translation
Sent down by the hands of hosts of Siddhas invisible in the sky, that rain of flowers fell for a quarter of a muhūrta.
Word by word
- adṛśya
- invisible
- ambara
- in the sky
- siddha
- of Siddhas
- ōgha
- of hosts
- kara
- of the hands
- utkara
- by the many
- samīritā
- sent down
- sā
- that
- muhūrta
- of a muhūrta
- caturbhāgaṁ
- for a quarter
- puṣpa
- of flowers
- vṛṣṭiḥ
- rain
- papāta
- fell
- ha
- indeed
Meaning
The source is named at last: the hands of the Siddhas, who cannot be seen. The rain lasts a quarter of a muhūrta, a few minutes; the commentary says half a ghaṭī. The precise time is a narrator's touch: it was not a dream, it happened, and it ended. The "moment" (muhūrta) of verse 3 returns: the experience was real, and brief. The reader may keep both: that such moments come, and that they end, and that the teaching is about what remains when they do.