लीलोवाच । देवि देशमिमं दृष्ट्वा त्वत्प्रसादात् स्मराम्यहम् । इह तत्प्राक्तनं सर्वं चेष्टितं चेष्टितान्तरम् ॥ ४ ॥
līlōvāca | dēvi dēśamimaṁ dṛṣṭvā tvatprasādāt smarāmyaham | iha tatprāktanaṁ sarvaṁ cēṣṭitaṁ cēṣṭitāntaram || 4 ||
Translation
Līlā said: Goddess, seeing this place, by your grace I remember everything I did here before, one deed after another.
Word by word
- dēvi
- goddess
- dēśam
- place
- imaṁ
- this
- dṛṣṭvā
- seeing
- tvat
- your
- prasādāt
- by grace
- smarāmi
- remember
- aham
- I
- iha
- here
- tat
- that
- prāktanaṁ
- before
- sarvaṁ
- everything
- cēṣṭitaṁ
- I did
- cēṣṭita
- deed
- antaram
- after deed
Meaning
She gives the credit to the goddess, though v. 3 said the memory rose of itself: grace and one's own clearing are not two things here. Another commentary reads "one deed after another" (ceṣṭitāntaram) as the deeds of her other births as well.