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Text 39

Text 39

Devanagari

Devanagari

क्रतोरपि क्रिया भार्या वालखिल्यानसूयत ।
ऋषीन्षष्टिसहस्राणि ज्वलतो ब्रह्मतेजसा ॥ ३९ ॥

Text

Texto

krator api kriyā bhāryā
vālakhilyān asūyata
ṛṣīn ṣaṣṭi-sahasrāṇi
jvalato brahma-tejasā
krator api kriyā bhāryā
vālakhilyān asūyata
ṛṣīn ṣaṣṭi-sahasrāṇi
jvalato brahma-tejasā

Synonyms

Palabra por palabra

kratoḥ — of the great sage Kratu; api — also; kriyā — Kriyā; bhāryā — wife; vālakhilyān — just like Vālakhilya; asūyata — begot; ṛṣīn — sages; ṣaṣṭi — sixty; sahasrāṇi — thousand; jvalataḥ — very brilliant; brahma-tejasā — by dint of the Brahman effulgence.

kratoḥ — del gran sabio Kratu; api — también; kriyā — Kriyā; bhāryā — esposa; vālakhilyān — tal como Vālakhilya; asūyata — engendró; ṛṣīn — sabios; ṣaṣṭi — sesenta; sahasrāṇi — mil; jvalataḥ — muy brillantes; brahma-tejasā — merced a la refulgencia del Brahman.

Translation

Traducción

Kratu’s wife, Kriyā, gave birth to sixty thousand great sages, named the Vālakhilyas. All these sages were greatly advanced in spiritual knowledge, and their bodies were illuminated by such knowledge.

La esposa de Kratu, Kriyā, fue madre de sesenta mil grandes sabios, los Vālakhilyas. Todos ellos eran muy avanzados en conocimiento espiritual, y ese conocimiento iluminaba sus cuerpos.

Purport

Significado

Kriyā was the sixth daughter of Kardama Muni, and she produced sixty thousand sages, who were known as the Vālakhilyas because they all retired from family life as vānaprasthas.

Kriyā era la sexta hija de Kardama Muni, y fue madre de sesenta mil sabios, conocidos con el nombre de Vālakhilyas por haberse retirado de la vida familiar como vānaprasthas.