वद त्वद्भर्तृसर्गस्य किं पृथ्व्यादिषु कारणम् । तद्भूमण्डलतो भूतिर्जाता तत्र वरानने ॥ २१ ॥
vada tvadbhartṛsargasya kiṁ pṛthvyādiṣu kāraṇam | tadbhūmaṇḍalatō bhūtirjātā tatra varānanē || 21 ||
Translation
Tell me, what among earth and the rest is the cause of your husband's creation? The being of its earth arose there from the sphere of this earth, fair-faced one?
Word by word
- vada
- tell
- tvad
- (tvat) your
- bhartṛ
- husband’s
- sargasya
- of the creation
- kiṁ
- what
- pṛthvī
- earth
- ādiṣu
- among and the rest
- kāraṇam
- is the cause
- tad
- (tat) that
- bhū
- of earth
- maṇḍalatō
- (maṇḍalataḥ) from the sphere
- bhūtir
- (bhūtiḥ) the being
- jātā
- arose
- tatra
- there
- varānanē
- fair-faced one
Meaning
The commentary: in the world of impressions there can be no special cause; both have the same root, māyā, desire, karma and impressions. Lady, among the earth and other things seen here, what is the cause of your husband's world? Say it, so that there might be a difference. Nothing material passed from this world to that one; so it has no material cause but this world as remembered. Another reading has "of that husband's creation"; both commentaries say "your husband's".