🪷 ŚB 8.20.25-29

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

Sanskrit

हृद्यङ्ग धर्मं स्तनयोर्मुरारे- र्ऋतं च सत्यं च मनस्यथेन्दुम् । श्रियं च वक्षस्यरविन्दहस्तां कण्ठे च सामानि समस्तरेफान् ॥ २५ ॥ इन्द्रप्रधानानमरान्भुजेषु तत्कर्णयो: ककुभो द्यौश्च मूर्ध्नि । केशेषु मेघाञ्छ्वसनं नासिकाया- मक्ष्णोश्च सूर्यं वदने च वह्निम् ॥ २६ ॥ वाण्यां च छन्दांसि रसे जलेशं भ्रुवोर्निषेधं च विधिं च पक्ष्मसु । अहश्च रात्रिं च परस्य पुंसो मन्युं ललाटेऽधर एव लोभम् ॥ २७ ॥ स्पर्शे च कामं नृप रेतसाम्भ: पृष्ठे त्वधर्मं क्रमणेषु यज्ञम् । छायासु मृत्युं हसिते च मायां तनूरुहेष्वोषधिजातयश्च ॥ २८ ॥ नदीश्च नाडीषु शिला नखेषु बुद्धावजं देवगणानृषींश्च । प्राणेषु गात्रे स्थिरजङ्गमानि सर्वाणि भूतानि ददर्श वीर: ॥ २९ ॥

Transliteration

hṛdy aṅga dharmaṁ stanayor murārer ṛtaṁ ca satyaṁ ca manasy athendum śriyaṁ ca vakṣasy aravinda-hastāṁ kaṇṭhe ca sāmāni samasta-rephān
Synonyms
hṛdi — within the heart; aṅga — my dear King Parīkṣit; dharmam — religion; stanayoḥ — on the bosom; murāreḥ — of Murāri, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; ṛtam — very pleasing words; ca — also; satyam — truthfulness; ca — also; manasi — in the mind; atha — thereafter; indum — the moon; śriyam — the goddess of fortune; ca — also; vakṣasi — on the chest; aravinda-hastām — who always carries a lotus flower in her hand; kaṇṭhe — on the neck; ca — also; sāmāni — all the Vedas (Sāma, Yajur, Ṛg and Atharva); samasta-rephān — all sound vibrations; indra-pradhānān — headed by King Indra; amarān — all the demigods; bhujeṣu — on the arms; tat-karṇayoḥ — on the ears; kakubhaḥ — all the directions; dyauḥ ca — the luminaries; mūrdhni — on the top of the head; keśeṣu — within the hair; meghān — the clouds; śvasanam — breathing air; nāsikāyām — on the nostrils; akṣṇoḥ ca — in the eyes; sūryam — the sun; vadane — in the mouth; ca — also; vahnim — fire; vāṇyām — in His speech; ca — also; chandāṁsi — the Vedic hymns; rase — in the tongue; jala-īśam — the demigod of the water; bhruvoḥ — on the eyebrows; niṣedham — warnings; ca — also; vidhim — regulative principles; ca — also; pakṣmasu — in the eyelids; ahaḥ ca — daytime; rātrim — night; ca — also; parasya — of the supreme; puṁsaḥ — of the person; manyum — anger; lalāṭe — on the forehead; adhare — on the lips; eva — indeed; lobham — greed; sparśe — in His touch; ca — also; kāmam — lusty desires; nṛpa — O King; retasā — by semen; ambhaḥ — water; pṛṣṭhe — on the back; tu — but; adharmam — irreligion; kramaṇeṣu — in the wonderful activities; yajñam — fire sacrifice; chāyāsu — in the shadows; mṛtyum — death; hasite — in His smiling; ca — also; māyām — the illusory energy; tanū-ruheṣu — in the hair on the body; oṣadhi-jātayaḥ — all species of drugs, herbs and plants; ca — and; nadīḥ — the rivers; ca — also; nāḍīṣu — in the veins; śilāḥ — stones; nakheṣu — in the nails; buddhau — in the intelligence; ajam — Lord Brahmā; deva-gaṇān — the demigods; ṛṣīn ca — and the great sages; prāṇeṣu — in the senses; gātre — in the body; sthira-jaṅgamāni — moving and stationary; sarvāṇi — all of them; bhūtāni — living entities; dadarśa — saw; vīraḥ — Bali Mahārāja.

Translation

My dear King, on the heart of Lord Murāri he saw religion; on the chest, both pleasing words and truthfulness; in the mind, the moon; on the bosom, the goddess of fortune, with a lotus flower in her hand; on the neck, all the Vedas and all sound vibrations; on the arms, all the demigods, headed by King Indra; in both ears, all the directions; on the head, the upper planetary systems; on the hair, the clouds; in the nostrils, the wind; on the eyes, the sun; and in the mouth, fire. From His words came all the Vedic mantras, on His tongue was the demigod of water, Varuṇadeva, on His eyebrows were the regulative principles, and on His eyelids were day and night. [When His eyes were open it was daytime, and when they were closed it was night.] On His forehead was anger, and on His lips was greed. O King, in His touch were lusty desires, in His semen were all the waters, on His back was irreligion, and in His wonderful activities or steps was the fire of sacrifice. On His shadow was death, in His smile was the illusory energy, and on the hairs of His body were all the drugs and herbs. In His veins were all the rivers, on His nails were all the stones, in His intelligence were Lord Brahmā, the demigods and the great saintly persons, and throughout His entire body and senses were all living entities, moving and stationary. Bali Mahārāja thus saw everything in the gigantic body of the Lord.

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ŚB 8.20.28requested verse-reference route for this Bhāgavatam reading pagecanonical reading passagereceived source-text passage preserved as the canonical reading targetŚB 8.20parent chapter route and reading-passage indexSkandha 8parent 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 source-walk 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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