विद्यते त्वयि सर्वैव पृच्छकस्य गुणावली । वक्तुर्गुणाली च मयि रत्नश्रीर्जलधौ यथा ॥ ३ ॥
vidyatē tvayi sarvaiva pṛcchakasya guṇāvalī | vakturguṇālī ca mayi ratnaśrīrjaladhau yathā || 3 ||
- Another reading: वक्तुर्गुणाश्चैव (vakturguṇāścaiva) for वक्तुर्गुणाली च
Translation
In you is the whole line of a questioner's virtues, and in me the line of a speaker's virtues, as the wealth of jewels is in the ocean.
Word by word
- vidyatē
- is
- tvayi
- in you
- sarvā
- the whole
- ēva
- indeed
- pṛcchakasya
- of a questioner's
- guṇāvalī
- line of virtues
- vaktur
- (vaktuḥ) of a speaker's
- guṇālī
- line of virtues
- ca
- and
- mayi
- in me
- ratna
- of jewels
- śrīr
- (śrīḥ) the wealth
- jaladhau
- in the ocean
- yathā
- as
Meaning
The even meeting of 2.11.51 is said again, and more fully. Guṇāvalī and guṇālī, a row of virtues, answer one another in the two lines of the verse, as the two people answer one another in the room. The ocean is the image of a store that is simply there. As with the earlier verse, Vasiṣṭha claims his own side of the matter without hesitation.