🪷 ŚB 8.5.40

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

Sanskrit

श्रीर्वक्षस: पितरश्छाययासन् धर्म: स्तनादितर: पृष्ठतोऽभूत् । द्यौर्यस्य शीर्ष्णोऽप्सरसो विहारात् प्रसीदतां न: स महाविभूति: ॥ ४० ॥

Transliteration

śrīr vakṣasaḥ pitaraś chāyayāsan dharmaḥ stanād itaraḥ pṛṣṭhato ’bhūt dyaur yasya śīrṣṇo ’psaraso vihārāt prasīdatāṁ naḥ sa mahā-vibhūtiḥ
Synonyms
śrīḥ — the goddess of fortune; vakṣasaḥ — from His chest; pitaraḥ — the inhabitants of Pitṛloka; chāyayā — from His shadow; āsan — became possible; dharmaḥ — the principle of religion; stanāt — from His bosom; itaraḥ — irreligion (the opposite of dharma); pṛṣṭhataḥ — from the back; abhūt — became possible; dyauḥ — the heavenly planets; yasya — of whom; śīrṣṇaḥ — from the top of the head; apsarasaḥ — the inhabitants of Apsaroloka; vihārāt — by His sense enjoyment; prasīdatām — kindly be pleased; naḥ — upon us; saḥ — He (the Supreme Personality of Godhead); mahā-vibhūtiḥ — the greatest in all prowess.

Translation

The goddess of fortune was generated from His chest, the inhabitants of Pitṛloka from His shadow, religion from His bosom, and irreligion [the opposite of religion] from His back. The heavenly planets were generated from the top of His head, and the Apsarās from His sense enjoyment. May that supremely powerful Personality of Godhead be pleased with us.

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 8.5.40 · गीता प्रेस पाठ

श्रीर्वक्षस: पितरश्छाययाऽऽसन् धर्म: स्तनादितर: पृष्ठतोऽभूत्। द्यौर्यस्य शीर्ष्णोऽप्सरसो विहारात् प्रसीदतां न: स महाविभूति:॥ ४०

हिन्दी टीका-पाठ

जिनके वक्ष:स्थलसे लक्ष्मी, छायासे पितृगण, स्तनसे धर्म, पीठसे अधर्म, सिरसे आकाश और विहारसे अप्सराएँ प्रकट हुई हैं, वे परम ऐश्‍वर्यशाली भगवान् हमपर प्रसन्‍न हों॥ ४०॥

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_182_split1.html · source order 178
Sanskrit SHA-256: 4c68fcd70dfcfa2575e39f3340e36742fd7a3c4169d7ec791bde7a8302e87d07
Hindi SHA-256: 434b017c2a149623bdafa7d0f81c907639b5f99e5210f574d3877b31edd8f9f7
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 8.5.40requested verse-reference route for this Bhāgavatam reading pageŚB 8.5parent 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 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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