ब्रह्माण्डनरहृत्पद्मं दिगष्टकदलं बृहत् । गिरिकेसरसम्बाधं स्वामोदभरसुन्दरम् ॥ २ ॥
brahmāṇḍanarahṛtpadmaṁ digaṣṭakadalaṁ bṛhat | girikēsarasambādhaṁ svāmōdabharasundaram || 2 ||
Translation
It was the lotus of the heart of the person who is the world-egg: vast, the eight directions its petals, thick with the filaments of its mountains, lovely with the wealth of its own fragrance;
Word by word
- brahmāṇḍa
- who is the world-egg
- nara
- of the person
- hṛt
- of the heart
- padmaṁ
- the lotus
- dig
- (dik) the directions
- aṣṭaka
- eight
- dalaṁ
- its petals
- bṛhat
- vast
- giri
- of its mountains
- kēsara
- with the filaments
- sambādhaṁ
- thick
- sva
- its own
- āmōda
- of fragrance
- bhara
- with the wealth
- sundaram
- lovely
Meaning
The commentary: the earth is described as the heart-lotus of the person whose body is the world-egg. A lotus is the old picture of the earth in the Purāṇas, with Meru as its seed-pod and the continents as its petals. Here the lotus is in a heart: the world is the heart of the cosmic person.