🪷 ŚB 2.1.26

Sanskrit, transliteration, word meanings, and translation for steady Bhāgavata reading.

Sanskrit

पातालमेतस्य हि पादमूलं पठन्ति पार्ष्णिप्रपदे रसातलम् । महातलं विश्वसृजोऽथ गुल्फौ तलातलं वै पुरुषस्य जङ्घे ॥ २६ ॥

Transliteration

pātālam etasya hi pāda-mūlaṁ paṭhanti pārṣṇi-prapade rasātalam mahātalaṁ viśva-sṛjo ’tha gulphau talātalaṁ vai puruṣasya jaṅghe
Synonyms
pātālam — the planets at the bottom of the universe; etasya — of His; hi — exactly; pāda-mūlam — soles of the feet; paṭhanti — they study it; pārṣṇi — the heels; prapade — the toes; rasātalam — the planets named Rasātala; mahātalam — the planets named Mahātala; viśva-sṛjaḥ — of the creator of the universe; atha — thus; gulphau — the ankles; talātalam — the planets named Talātala; vai — as they are; puruṣasya — of the gigantic person; jaṅghe — the shanks.

Translation

Persons who have realized it have studied that the planets known as Pātāla constitute the bottoms of the feet of the universal Lord, and the heels and the toes are the Rasātala planets. The ankles are the Mahātala planets, and His shanks constitute the Talātala planets.

गीता प्रेस, गोरखपुर · पृथक पाठ-साक्षी

Sanskrit and Hindi Witness

इस पाठ-साक्षी का श्लोक-पता वर्तमान ŚB मार्ग से ठीक मिलता है। गीता प्रेस और वर्तमान अंग्रेज़ी पाठ को मिलाया नहीं गया है; दोनों अपने-अपने स्रोत-रूप में साथ पढ़े जा सकते हैं।

ŚB 2.1.26 · गीता प्रेस पाठ

पातालमेतस्य हि पादमूलं पठन्ति पार्ष्णिप्रपदे रसातलम्। महातलं विश्‍वसृजोऽथ गुल्फौ तलातलं वै पुरुषस्य जङ्घे॥ २६

हिन्दी टीका-पाठ

तत्त्वज्ञ पुरुष उनका इस प्रकार वर्णन करते हैं—पाताल विराट् पुरुषके तलवे हैं, उनकी एड़ियाँ और पंजे रसातल हैं, दोनों गुल्फ—एड़ीके ऊपरकी गाँठें महातल हैं, उनके पैरके पिंडे तलातल हैं,॥ २६॥

स्रोत-खंड सीमा · यह हिन्दी अंश गीता प्रेस डिजिटल पाठ में इस दृश्य श्लोक-इकाई के बाद आता है; इसे स्वतः एक-से-एक टीका या संस्करण-समानता नहीं माना गया है।

Source witness details
प्रथम-खण्ड · index_split_042.html · source order 40
Sanskrit SHA-256: d33d82f5526f4b3e9f13d71749823328281937dabb9f598009304ff854f252a2
Hindi SHA-256: 02870e6820e321237020f069523cc6b1bfcee339fb50a365d495fdcea3d07e14
Address crosswalk: exact · final textual equivalence: not claimed

Sources and Connected Bhāgavata Readings

After the Sanskrit, word meanings, translation, and reading navigation, these links connect the requested reference with its canonical received passage, parent chapter and skandha, and the wider Bhāgavata corpus without inventing artificial verse boundaries.

ŚB 2.1.26requested verse-reference route for this Bhāgavatam reading pageŚB 2.1parent chapter route and reading-passage indexSkandha 2parent skandha chapter index/bhagavatammaster index for 12 skandhas, 335 chapters, and 13,003 reading pagesŚB 1.1.1satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi · the Bhāgavatam source meditationŚB 1.2.6supreme dharma as ahaitukī and apratihatā bhaktiŚB 1.2.11Brahman · Paramātmā · Bhagavān as one advaya-tattvaŚB 1.3.28kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam · Krishna-pramāṇa source sealŚB 10.10.29Dāmodara/Yamala-arjuna · Krishna as supreme original PersonŚB 10.10.30-31Krishna as Kāla · Viṣṇu · Paramātmā · AntaryāmīŚB 10.10.38speech, hearing, body, mind, head, and sight offered in Krishna-sevāŚB 10.10.39Gokuleśvara bound by love, smilingŚB 10.10.40Nārada correction as anugrahaŚB 10.10.41sādhu-darśana removes bondage-darknessŚB 12.2.18Kalki witness at ŚambhalaŚB 12.3.51Kali-yuga blessing through Krishna-kīrtanaSkandha 10 līlā index20-anchor Krishna-līlā reading pathway inside the Bhāgavatam master pageBG 7.7mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat · no source higher than KrishnaBG 10.8ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ · Krishna as source of allBG 15.15Krishna seated in every heart and the target of all Veda/binduDiamond of Darśanas · Bhāgavata prema as the Bindu made rasa/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundation

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