तस्मिन् परमके व्योम्नि मध्याद्यन्तविकल्पनाः । न काश्चन समुद्यन्ति वन्ध्यापुत्रकथा इव ॥ ५८ ॥
tasmin paramakē vyōmni madhyādyantavikalpanāḥ | na kāścana samudyanti vandhyāputrakathā iva || 58 ||
Translation
In that supreme space no fancies of middle, beginning and end arise at all, any more than tales of a barren woman's son.
Word by word
- tasmin
- in that
- paramakē
- supreme
- vyōmni
- space
- madhya
- of middle
- ādi
- beginning
- anta
- and end
- vikalpanāḥ
- fancies
- na
- no
- kāścana
- at all
- samudyanti
- arise
- vandhyā
- of a barren woman
- putra
- son
- kathā
- tales
- iva
- any more than
Meaning
Beginning, middle and end are distinctions made by the mind (vikalpa). In the supreme space they have no ground, as a story about the son of a barren woman has no one to be about. The image is a standard one for what is not merely absent but impossible.