श्रीवसिष्ठ उवाच । एतत्ते कथितं सर्वं ज्ञानावतरणं भुवि । मया स्वमीहितं चैव कमलोद्भवचेष्टितम् ॥ १ ॥
śrīvasiṣṭha uvāca | ētattē kathitaṁ sarvaṁ jñānāvataraṇaṁ bhuvi | mayā svamīhitaṁ caiva kamalōdbhavacēṣṭitam || 1 ||
Translation
Śrī Vasiṣṭha said: So I have told you the whole of it: how knowledge came down to the earth, my own story, and what the Lotus-born did.
Word by word
- śrīvasiṣṭha
- Śrī Vasiṣṭha
- uvāca
- said
- ētat
- this
- tē
- to you
- kathitaṁ
- told
- sarvaṁ
- the whole
- jñāna
- of knowledge
- avataraṇaṁ
- the descent
- bhuvi
- to the earth
- mayā
- by me
- svam
- my own
- īhitaṁ
- doings
- ca
- and
- ēva
- also
- kamalōdbhava
- of the Lotus-born
- cēṣṭitam
- what ... did
Meaning
A short closing of the previous account. Vasiṣṭha sums up three things: the descent of knowledge, his own part in it, and Brahmā's. Rāma will not let him move on so quickly, as verse 3 shows, and this sarga goes on to tell how the knowledge travelled from the sages to kings, and so to Rāma himself.