प्राप सार्द्धं तया देव्या पुनरावरणान्वितम् । ब्रह्माण्डमण्डपं स्फारं तं प्रविश्य तथा जवात् ॥ ६ ॥
prāpa sārddhaṁ tayā dēvyā punarāvaraṇānvitam | brahmāṇḍamaṇḍapaṁ sphāraṁ taṁ praviśya tathā javāt || 6 ||
Translation
and with the goddess she reached the vast hall of the world-egg, with its coverings again; and entering it swiftly in the same way,
Word by word
- prāpa
- she reached
- sārddhaṁ
- with
- tayā
- the
- dēvyā
- goddess
- punar
- (punaḥ) again
- āvaraṇa
- with coverings
- anvitam
- furnished
- brahmāṇḍa
- of the world-egg
- maṇḍapaṁ
- the hall
- sphāraṁ
- vast
- taṁ
- that
- praviśya
- entering
- tathā
- in the same way
- javāt
- swiftly
Meaning
Past the shell they come again upon coverings, those of the inner world-egg itself, and enter that too. The world-egg is called a hall (maṇḍapa), a great roofed space: what seemed a universe is a room inside a room, and each room holds another. The sentence runs on into the next verse.