महाप्रलयसम्पत्तौ सूर्यार्चिर्विद्युतोऽद्रयः । प्रवृत्ता गलितुं केचित्तापे हिमकणा इव ॥ २१ ॥
mahāpralayasampattau sūryārcirvidyutō’drayaḥ | pravṛttā galituṁ kēcittāpē himakaṇā iva || 21 ||
- Another reading: सूर्याचिर्विद्युतोऽद्रयः (sūryācirvidyutō’drayaḥ) for सूर्यार्चिर्विद्युतोऽद्रयः
Translation
In some, at the coming of the great dissolution, suns, flames, lightnings and mountains have begun to melt, like flakes of snow in the heat.
Word by word
- mahā
- great
- pralaya
- dissolution
- sampattau
- at the coming
- sūrya
- suns
- arcir
- (arciḥ) flames
- vidyutō
- lightnings
- adrayaḥ
- mountains
- pravṛttā
- have begun
- galituṁ
- to melt
- kēcit
- in some
- tāpē
- in the heat
- hima
- of snow
- kaṇā
- flakes
- iva
- like
Meaning
At the great dissolution even the sun and the mountains, the most lasting things we know, melt like snow. The first commentary: sun, fire and lightning first burn the worlds and then melt themselves.