मुमुक्षुव्यवहाराख्यं ततः प्रकरणं कृतम् । सहस्रमात्रं ग्रन्थस्य युक्तिग्रन्थेन सुन्दरम् ॥ १३ ॥
mumukṣuvyavahārākhyaṁ tataḥ prakaraṇaṁ kṛtam | sahasramātraṁ granthasya yuktigranthēna sundaram || 13 ||
Translation
Then the prakaraṇa called Mumukṣu-vyavahāra was made, a thousand verses of text, beautiful in its reasoned composition,
Word by word
- mumukṣu
- Mumukṣu
- vyavahāra
- vyavahāra
- ākhyaṁ
- called
- tataḥ
- then
- prakaraṇaṁ
- the prakaraṇa
- kṛtam
- was made
- sahasra
- a thousand
- mātraṁ
- verses
- granthasya
- of text
- yukti
- reasoned
- granthēna
- in its composition
- sundaram
- beautiful
Meaning
The second book, the one now being read: the conduct of the seeker of liberation. It is the shortest, and the verse calls it beautiful in its reasoning. Its sargas have argued: against fate, for effort, for the four gatekeepers.