प्रेक्षेऽहमिति भावेन द्रष्टुं प्रसरतीव खे । ततो रन्ध्रद्वयेनैव भाविबाह्याभिधं पुनः ॥ २८ ॥
prēkṣē’hamiti bhāvēna draṣṭuṁ prasaratīva khē | tatō randhradvayēnaiva bhāvibāhyābhidhaṁ punaḥ || 28 ||
Translation
with the feeling "let me look", spreads, as it were, into space to see; then, through two openings, what will later be called the outer,
Word by word
- prēkṣē
- let me look
- aham
- I
- iti
- thus
- bhāvēna
- with the feeling
- draṣṭuṁ
- to see
- prasarati
- spreads
- iva
- as it were
- khē
- into space
- tatō
- (tataḥ) then
- randhra
- openings
- dvayēna
- through two
- ēva
- just
- bhāvi
- later
- bāhya
- the outer
- abhidhaṁ
- called
- punaḥ
- again
Meaning
The commentary: then the jīva, with the feeling "let me see", goes out, as it were, into space to spread; the two openings through which it sees the objects to come will be named the eyes. The senses are told as the wish to know making its own doors: first the wish to look, then the openings through which looking goes. The sentence runs into the next verse.