इत्थमभ्यागतो वृद्धिमिति तत्रोच्यते चिरम् । उपशान्तिप्रकरणं ततः पञ्चसहस्रकम् ॥ ३१ ॥
itthamabhyāgatō vṛddhimiti tatrōcyatē ciram | upaśāntiprakaraṇaṁ tataḥ pañcasahasrakam || 31 ||
Translation
has grown in this way: this is told there at length. Then the Upaśānti prakaraṇa, of quieting, of five thousand verses,
Word by word
- ittham
- in this way
- abhyāgatō
- (abhyāgataḥ) has come
- vṛddhim
- to growth
- iti
- thus
- tatra
- there
- ucyatē
- is told
- ciram
- at length
- upaśānti
- Upaśānti
- prakaraṇaṁ
- prakaraṇa
- tataḥ
- then
- pañca
- five
- sahasrakam
- thousand verses
Meaning
The third and fourth books describe the world's arising and its persistence; the fifth turns to its calming. The order of the work follows the order of the illusion: how it arose, how it stays, how it subsides.