Chapter 14
स्थालीस्थानं गतोऽश्वत्थं शमीगर्भं विलक्ष्य स: । तेन द्वे अरणी कृत्वा उर्वशीलोककाम्यया ॥ ४४ ॥ उर्वशीं मन्त्रतो ध्यायन्नधरारणिमुत्तराम् । आत्मानमुभयोर्मध्ये यत् तत् प्रजननं प्रभु: ॥ ४५ ॥
Transliteration
sthālī-sthānaṁ gato ’śvatthaṁ śamī-garbhaṁ vilakṣya saḥ tena dve araṇī kṛtvā urvaśī-loka-kāmyayāurvaśīṁ mantrato dhyāyann adharāraṇim uttarām ātmānam ubhayor madhye yat tat prajananaṁ prabhuḥ
Synonyms (Word-for-Word)
sthālī-sthānam — the place where Agnisthālī was left; gataḥ — going there; aśvattham — an aśvattha tree; śamī-garbham — produced from the womb of the śamī tree; vilakṣya — seeing; saḥ — he, Purūravā; tena — from that; dve — two; araṇī — pieces of wood required for igniting a fire for sacrifice; kṛtvā — making; urvaśī-loka-kāmyayā — desiring to go to the planet where Urvaśī was present; urvaśīm — Urvaśī; mantrataḥ — by chanting the required mantra; dhyāyan — meditating upon; adhara — lower; araṇim — araṇi wood; uttarām — and the upper one; ātmānam — himself; ubhayoḥ madhye — in between the two; yat tat — that which (he meditated upon); prajananam — as a son; prabhuḥ — the King.
Translation
“When the process of fruitive yajña became manifest within his heart, King Purūravā went to the same spot where he had left Agnisthālī. There he saw that from the womb of a śamī tree, an aśvattha tree had grown. He then took a piece of wood from that tree and made it into two araṇis. Desiring to go to the planet where Urvaśī resided, he chanted mantras, meditating upon the lower araṇi as Urvaśī, the upper one as himself, and the piece of wood between them as his son. In this way he began to ignite a fire.”