इहैवाऽङ्गुष्ठमात्रान्ते तद्व्योम्न्येव पदं स्थितम् । मद्भर्तृराज्यं समवगतं योजनकोटिभाक् ॥ ३६ ॥
ihaivā’ṅguṣṭhamātrāntē tadvyōmnyēva padaṁ sthitam | madbhartṛrājyaṁ samavagataṁ yōjanakōṭibhāk || 36 ||
Translation
Right here, within a thumb's breadth, in that very space, stands the ground which is taken to be my husband's kingdom, spanning crores of yojanas.
Word by word
- iha
- here
- ēva
- right; very
- aṅguṣṭha
- a thumb's
- mātra
- breadth
- antē
- within
- tad
- (tat) that
- vyōmnya
- (vyomni) in space
- padaṁ
- the ground
- sthitam
- stands
- mad
- (mat) my
- bhartṛ
- husband's
- rājyaṁ
- kingdom
- samavagataṁ
- taken to be
- yōjana
- of yojanas
- kōṭi
- crores
- bhāk
- spanning
Meaning
Within a thumb's breadth of the house's space, a kingdom of crores of yojanas. The first commentary's note: here, within a thumb's space, stands the real (the highest Brahman), and in error it was taken as a kingdom crores of yojanas wide. The size is in the seeing, not in the space.