🪷 ŚB 3.13.16

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

Sanskrit

मैत्रेय उवाच परमेष्ठी त्वपां मध्ये तथा सन्नामवेक्ष्य गाम् । कथमेनां समुन्नेष्य इति दध्यौ धिया चिरम् ॥ १६ ॥

Transliteration

maitreya uvāca parameṣṭhī tv apāṁ madhye tathā sannām avekṣya gām katham enāṁ samunneṣya iti dadhyau dhiyā ciram
Synonyms
maitreyaḥ uvāca — Śrī Maitreya Muni said; parameṣṭhī — Brahmā; tu — also; apām — the water; madhye — within; tathā — thus; sannām — situated; avekṣya — seeing; gām — the earth; katham — how; enām — this; samunneṣye — I shall lift; iti — thus; dadhyau — gave attention; dhiyā — by intelligence; ciram — for a long time.

Translation

Śrī Maitreya said: Thus, seeing the earth merged in the water, Brahmā gave his attention for a long time to how it could be lifted.

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 3.13.16 · गीता प्रेस पाठ

परमेष्ठी त्वपां मध्ये तथा सन्‍नामवेक्ष्य गाम्। कथमेनां समुन्‍नेष्य इति दध्यौ धिया चिरम्॥ १६

हिन्दी टीका-पाठ

श्रीमैत्रेयजीने कहा— पृथ्वीको इस प्रकार अथाह जलमें डूबी देखकर ब्रह्माजी बहुत देरतक मनमें यह सोचते रहे कि ‘इसे कैसे निकालूँ॥ १६॥

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_064.html · source order 62
Sanskrit SHA-256: 409980e4e7cef5863f25b76ab5eb729c3bfb566559d32758d55944a91522f31b
Hindi SHA-256: 836ddaedba0309d5b1732d4ebc5678a520afe75d3ab4724412a3f506bb19d0a9
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 3.13.16requested verse-reference route for this Bhāgavatam reading pageŚB 3.13parent chapter route and reading-passage indexSkandha 3parent 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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