संभूतं सह भूतेन सग्रामपुरपर्वतम् । इदं कल्पनभूतेन पक्वाक्षोटमिव त्वचा ॥ १४ ॥
saṁbhūtaṁ saha bhūtēna sagrāmapuraparvatam | idaṁ kalpanabhūtēna pakvākṣōṭamiva tvacā || 14 ||
Translation
and some, made of imagination, arose all at once with their beings, their villages, towns and mountains, as a ripe walnut comes with its skin.
Word by word
- saṁbhūtaṁ
- arose
- saha
- all at once
- bhūtēna
- with their beings; (bhūtena) made of
- sa
- with
- grāma
- villages
- pura
- towns
- parvatam
- and mountains
- idaṁ
- this
- kalpana
- of imagination
- pakva
- ripe
- akṣōṭam
- a walnut
- iva
- as
- tvacā
- with its skin
Meaning
A world does not grow piece by piece; it arises whole, with its people and places, as a walnut comes with its shell. The first commentary: some world-eggs arose at once with the four kinds of beings, villages, towns and mountains. The cause is imagination (kalpana), which pictures a whole scene at once.