यस्माद् घटपटाकारपदार्थशतपङ्क्तयः । तरङ्गगणकल्लोलवीचयो वारिधेरिव ॥ ६९ ॥
yasmād ghaṭapaṭākārapadārthaśatapaṅktayaḥ | taraṅgagaṇakallōlavīcayō vāridhēriva || 69 ||
Translation
From whom come the hundreds of rows of things in the shape of pots and cloths, as waves, billows and ripples from the ocean.
Word by word
- yasmād
- from whom
- ghaṭa
- of pots
- paṭa
- and cloths
- ākāra
- in the shape
- padārtha
- of things
- śata
- hundreds
- paṅktayaḥ
- rows
- taraṅga
- waves
- gaṇa
- masses of
- kallōla
- billows
- vīcayō
- and ripples
- vāridhēr
- (vāridheḥ) from the ocean
- iva
- as
Meaning
Pot and cloth are the stock examples of logic for any object at all. All things come from him as waves from the sea: the commentary says, as great waves rise from the ocean, so from him the hundreds and thousands of things in the form of pot and cloth arise.