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Yoga Vāsiṣṭha 3.30.26

Traditional (ascribed to Vālmīki)

Prakaraṇas
6
Sargas
175
Published
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Verses
3571
Level
intermediate

Sarga 30 · Verse 26

Verse 26

केचिद्विचित्रसर्गेशाः केचित्तिर्यङ्मयान्तराः । केचिदेकार्णवापूर्णा इतरे जनिवर्जिताः ॥ २६ ॥

kēcidvicitrasargēśāḥ kēcittiryaṅmayāntarāḥ | kēcidēkārṇavāpūrṇā itarē janivarjitāḥ || 26 ||

Translation

Some have strange lords of creation; some are filled within with animals; some are filled by the one ocean; others are without birth.

Word by word

kēcid
(kecit) some
vicitra
strange
sarga
of creation
īśāḥ
lords
kēcit
some
tiryaṅ
animals
maya
filled with
antarāḥ
within
ēka
one
arṇava
ocean
āpūrṇā
filled
itarē
others
jani
birth
varjitāḥ
without

Meaning

Worlds of every kind: of beasts only, of water only, of no births at all.