व्योम्नि जीवनदीवाहे वहत्सायकवारिणि । चक्रावर्त्तिनि गच्छन्ति गिरयोऽप्यणुपङ्कताम् ॥ २८ ॥
vyōmni jīvanadīvāhē vahatsāyakavāriṇi | cakrāvarttini gacchanti girayō’pyaṇupaṅkatām || 28 ||
Translation
"In the sky's river of lives, whose water is flowing arrows and whose whirlpools are discs, even mountains become fine mud."
Word by word
- vyōmni
- in the sky
- jīva
- of lives
- nadī
- river
- vāhē
- in the current
- vahat
- flowing
- sāyaka
- arrows
- vāriṇi
- whose water is
- cakra
- discs
- āvarttini
- whose whirlpools are
- gacchanti
- become
- girayō
- (girayaḥ) mountains
- api
- even
- aṇu
- fine
- paṅkatām
- mud
Meaning
The flow of lives out of the world is a river in the sky, its current the arrows, its eddies the whirling discs. Nothing stands against it: even mountains are ground to silt.