क्रियाक्रमेण पुण्येन तथा ज्ञानक्रमेण च । मनोमोहामयोन्नद्धमुद्धर्तुं लोकमीरिताः ॥ ९ ॥
kriyākramēṇa puṇyēna tathā jñānakramēṇa ca | manōmōhāmayōnnaddhamuddhartuṁ lōkamīritāḥ || 9 ||
Translation
They were sent to lift up the world, bound by the disease of the mind's delusion, by the pure way of ritual and likewise by the way of knowledge.
Word by word
- kriyā
- of ritual
- kramēṇa
- by the way
- puṇyēna
- pure
- tathā
- likewise
- jñāna
- of knowledge
- ca
- and
- manō
- (manaḥ) of the mind
- mōha
- of delusion
- āmaya
- by the disease
- unnaddham
- bound
- uddhartuṁ
- to lift up
- lōkam
- the world
- īritāḥ
- they were sent
Meaning
Two ways are named from the start, and the commentary says they were taught according to fitness: kriyā-krama, the ordered path of action, and jñāna-krama, the path of knowledge. Moha is called an āmaya, a sickness of the mind, continuing the medical language of the last sarga. The word uddhartum is to lift out, as from a pit. Both ways serve one purpose, and the sages who brought knowledge also brought ritual.