अद्याऽप्यन्ये भविष्यन्ति व्यासवाल्मीकयस्तथा । भृग्वङ्गिरःपुलस्त्याश्च तथैवाऽप्यन्यथैव च ॥ २३ ॥
adyā’pyanyē bhaviṣyanti vyāsavālmīkayastathā | bhṛgvaṅgiraḥpulastyāśca tathaivā’pyanyathaiva ca || 23 ||
Translation
And still other Vyāsas and Vālmīkis will be, and likewise Bhṛgu, Aṅgiras and Pulastya, in the same way and in other ways.
Word by word
- adya
- still
- apy
- (api) and
- anyē
- other
- bhaviṣyanti
- will be
- vyāsa
- Vyāsas
- vālmīkayas
- (vālmīkayaḥ) and Vālmīkis
- tathā
- likewise; in the same way
- bhṛgv
- (bhṛgu) Bhṛgu
- aṅgiraḥ
- Aṅgiras
- pulastyāś
- (pulastyāḥ) Pulastya
- ca
- and
- ēva
- indeed
- anyathā
- in other ways
Meaning
What is true of Vyāsa is true of all the great names. There will be other Vyāsas and other Vālmīkis, and so with Bhṛgu, Aṅgiras and Pulastya, the ancient seers, some like the present ones, some unlike. The commentary: the same can be said of the other sages. Vālmīki, the narrator of this very work, is included. The tradition that seems fixed and unique is, in Vasiṣṭha's vision, one recurrence among many.