श्रीवसिष्ठ उवाच । दूराद्दूरमभिप्लुत्य शनैरुच्चैः पदं गते । हस्तं हस्ते समालम्ब्य यान्त्यौ ददृशतुर्नभः ॥ १ ॥
śrīvasiṣṭha uvāca | dūrāddūramabhiplutya śanairuccaiḥ padaṁ gatē | hastaṁ hastē samālambya yāntyau dadṛśaturnabhaḥ || 1 ||
Translation
Vasiṣṭha said: Floating from far to farther, slowly, they reached a high place; and going on, hand held in hand, the two saw the sky.
Word by word
- dūrād
- (dūrāt) from far
- dūram
- to farther
- abhiplutya
- floating
- śanair
- (śanaiḥ) slowly
- uccaiḥ
- high
- padaṁ
- a place
- gatē
- reached
- hastaṁ
- hand
- hastē
- in hand
- samālambya
- held
- yāntyau
- going on
- dadṛśatur
- (dadṛśatuḥ) the two saw
- nabhaḥ
- the sky
Meaning
The journey of the last sarga goes on. The two women, now in bodies of awareness, hold hands like friends on a walk; the sky they see is the subject of the whole sarga. It is a sky seen from inside awareness, and what is described in it is the content of awareness: the whole cosmos of the Purāṇas as a vision.