🪷 ŚB 3.23.12
Sanskrit, transliteration, word meanings, and translation for steady Bhāgavata reading.
Sanskrit
मैत्रेय उवाच
प्रियाया: प्रियमन्विच्छन् कर्दमो योगमास्थित: ।
विमानं कामगं क्षत्तस्तर्ह्येवाविरचीकरत् ॥ १२ ॥
Transliteration
maitreya uvāca
priyāyāḥ priyam anvicchan
kardamo yogam āsthitaḥ
vimānaṁ kāma-gaṁ kṣattas
tarhy evāviracīkarat
Synonyms
maitreyaḥ — the great sage Maitreya; uvāca — said; priyāyāḥ — of his beloved wife; priyam — the pleasure; anvicchan — seeking; kardamaḥ — the sage Kardama; yogam — yogic power; āsthitaḥ — exercised; vimānam — an airplane; kāma-gam — moving at will; kṣattaḥ — O Vidura; tarhi — instantly; eva — quite; āviracīkarat — he produced.
Translation
Maitreya continued: O Vidura, seeking to please his beloved wife, the sage Kardama exercised his yogic power and instantly produced an aerial mansion that could travel at his will.
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ŚB 3.23.12requested verse-reference route for this Bhāgavatam reading pageŚB 3.23parent 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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