11.30
लेलिह्यसे ग्रसमानः समन्ताल्-
लोकान्समग्रान्वदनैर्ज्वलद्भिः ।
तेजोभिरापूर्य जगत्समग्रं
भासस्तवोग्राः प्रतपन्ति विष्णो ॥
lelihyase grasamānaḥ samantāl-
lokān samagrān vadanair jvaladbhiḥ
tejobhir āpūrya jagat samagraṃ
bhāsas tavogrāḥ pratapanti viṣṇo
Arjuna (अर्जुन) is still speaking, to Kṛṣṇa (कृष्ण). Meter: triṣṭubh (त्रिष्टुभ्). Four quarters, eleven syllables each, forty-four in the verse.
The verse
You lick again and again, swallowing the entire worlds from every side with flaming mouths; having filled the whole world with brilliance, your fierce rays scorch, O Viṣṇu (विष्णु).
नेपालीमा
तपाईं ज्वालामय मुखले सबैतिरबाट सारा लोक निल्दै बारम्बार चाट्नुहुन्छ। हे विष्णु, सारा जगत् तेजले भरेर तपाईंका प्रचण्ड किरण पोल्छन्।
Where it sits
The likenesses are over. He speaks to the form directly: you lick, you swallow. The next verse will stop describing and ask who, and what the activity is.
Split: लेलिह्यसे + ग्रसमानः + समन्तात् + लोकान् + समग्रान् + वदनैः + ज्वलद्भिः + तेजोभिः + आपूर्य + जगत् + समग्रम् + भासः + तव + उग्राः + प्रतपन्ति + विष्णो
lelihyase + grasamānaḥ + samantāt + lokān + samagrān + vadanaiḥ + jvaladbhiḥ + tejobhiḥ + āpūrya + jagat + samagram + bhāsaḥ + tava + ugrāḥ + pratapanti + viṣṇo
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| देवनागरी | Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|---|
| लेलिह्यसे | lelihyase | intensive, 2nd singular, middle of lih (लिह्) | you lick again and again. |
| ग्रसमानः | grasamānaḥ | nominative, present participle | swallowing. |
| समन्तात् | samantāt | indeclinable | from every side. |
| लोकान् | lokān | accusative plural | the worlds. |
| समग्रान् | samagrān | accusative plural | entire. |
| वदनैः | vadanaiḥ | instrumental plural | with mouths. |
| ज्वलद्भिः | jvaladbhiḥ | instrumental plural | flaming. Agrees with vadanaiḥ (वदनैः). |
| तेजोभिः | tejobhiḥ | instrumental plural | with rays of brilliance. |
| आपूर्य | āpūrya | gerund | having filled. |
| जगत् | jagat | accusative | the world. |
| समग्रम् | samagram | accusative singular neuter | entire. |
| भासः | bhāsaḥ | nominative plural | the rays. The lights. |
| तव | tava | genitive | your. |
| उग्राः | ugrāḥ | nominative plural | fierce. Agrees with bhāsaḥ (भासः). |
| प्रतपन्ति | pratapanti | present, 3rd plural | they scorch. |
| विष्णो | viṣṇo | vocative | O Viṣṇu (विष्णु). |
The phrases
lelihyase grasamānaḥ samantāt lokān samagrān vadanaiḥ jvaladbhiḥ (लेलिह्यसे ग्रसमानः समन्तात् लोकान् समग्रान् वदनैः ज्वलद्भिः) is the mouth at work. You lick again and again, swallowing the worlds entire from every side, with flaming mouths.
tejobhiḥ āpūrya jagat samagram bhāsaḥ tava ugrāḥ pratapanti (तेजोभिः आपूर्य जगत् समग्रम् भासः तव उग्राः प्रतपन्ति) is the light after the swallowing. Having filled the whole world with brilliance, your fierce rays scorch, O Viṣṇu (विष्णु).
Sanskrit in this line
lelihyase (लेलिह्यसे) is the intensive of lih (लिह्), "lick." The intensive repeats the root and means the act again and again. The ending --se (से) is second person singular. समन्तात् + लोकान् samantāt + lokān is recited across the quarter as समन्ताल्- / लोकान्. t (त्) before l (ल्) becomes l (ल्). The hyphen keeps that l (ल्) on the first line. The word is still samantāt (समन्तात्).
Say it back
What the mouths are doing, and what the rays do after. If lelihyase (लेलिह्यसे) comes out as a single calm lick, the intensive was flattened.