श्रीवसिष्ठ उवाच । इति ते वरवर्णिन्यौ ततो ब्रह्माण्डमण्डलात् । निर्गत्याऽन्यदनुप्राप्ते यत्र तद्ब्राह्मणास्पदम् ॥ १ ॥
śrīvasiṣṭha uvāca | iti tē varavarṇinyau tatō brahmāṇḍamaṇḍalāt | nirgatyā’nyadanuprāptē yatra tadbrāhmaṇāspadam || 1 ||
Translation
Vasiṣṭha said: So those two fair women, going out from that sphere of the world-egg, reached the other, where the brahmin's dwelling was.
Word by word
- iti
- so
- tē
- those two
- varavarṇinyau
- fair women
- tatō
- (tataḥ) that
- brahmāṇḍa
- of the world-egg
- maṇḍalāt
- from the sphere
- nirgatya
- going out
- anyad
- (anyat) the other
- anuprāptē
- reached
- yatra
- where
- tad
- (tat) that
- brāhmaṇa
- the brahmin's
- āspadam
- dwelling
Meaning
Another commentary: the two left the world-egg that held King Padma's realm and came into the other world-egg, where the brahmin's house stood. Each world is a whole universe; to go from one to the other is to leave one cosmos and enter another, and all of it within awareness.
