तक्षकेशः स्थितः पश्चादुत्तरे केतुमानिति ३९.
Takṣakeśa stands at the rear, and Ketumān is in the north.
कोटिकोटी युता देवी देवीनां पालयत्यदः ३९.
That goddess, joined with crores upon crores, guards the goddesses.
नमामि तानहं नित्यं ब्रह्मविष्णुमहेश्वरान् ३९.
I always bow to them: Brahma, Vishnu, and Maheshvara.
तं च वर्णयितुं ब्रह्मा शक्तो नैवास्मदादयः ३९.
Even Brahma is not able to describe him, nor are others like us.
ब्रह्मांडं संवृतं ह्येतत्कटाहेन समंततः ३९.
This universe is enclosed entirely by the vessel.
दशोत्तरेण पयसा वृतं तच्चापि तेजसा ३९.
It is covered by ten layers of water, and that too by radiance.
अहंकारश्च महता तं चापि प्रकृतिः परा ३९.
Ego and the great principle, and also the supreme nature.
प्राकृतं चरणं पार्थ तदनंतं प्रकीर्तितम् ३९.
The primal foot, O Partha, is said to be endless.
ईदृशानां तथा चात्र कोटिकोटिशतानि च ३९.
Likewise, here there are hundreds of crores of such as these.
यस्यैवं वैभवं पार्थ तं नमामी सदाशिवम् ३९.
O Partha, I bow to Sadashiva, whose glory is thus.
य एवंविधसंमोहतारकं न शिवं भजेत् ३९.
He who does not worship Shiva, the liberator from such delusion—
काष्ठा निमेषा दश पंच चाहुस्त्रिंशच्च काष्ठा गणयेत्कला हि ३९.
A kāṣṭhā is ten nimeṣas; five are an āhu; thirty kāṣṭhās make a kalā.
दिवसे पंच कालाः स्युस्त्रिमुहूर्ताः श्रृणुष्व तान् ३९.
There are five divisions in the day, each consisting of three muhūrtas; listen to them.
सायाह्नः पंचमश्चापि मुहूर्ता दश पंच च ३९.
The fifth is the evening, and there are ten plus five muhūrtas.
मासः पक्षद्वयेनोक्तो द्वौ मासौ चार्कजावृतुः ३९.
A month is said to be made of two fortnights, and two months are called a season.
चतुर्भेदं मासमाहुः पंचभेदं च वत्सरम् ३९.
They declare the month to have four divisions, and the year to have five divisions.
इद्वत्सरस्तृतीयोऽसौ चतुर्थश्चानुवत्सरः ३९.
The third is called 'idvatsara,' and the fourth is 'anuvatsara.'
मासेन च मनुष्याणामहोरात्रं च पैतृकम् ३९.
For humans, a month; for ancestors, a day and night.
मानुषेण च वर्षेण दैविको दिवसः स्मृतः ३९.
By a human year, a divine day is reckoned.
वर्षेण चैव देवानां मतः सप्तर्षिवासरः ३९.
By a year of the gods, the day of the Seven Sages is considered.
मनुष्याणां च वर्षाणि लक्षासप्तदशैव तु ३९.
For humans, there are exactly one million seven hundred thousand years.
लक्षद्वादशसाहस्रषण्नवत्यधिकाः पराः ३९.
And one hundred and twelve thousand and ninety-nine more.
चतुर्लक्षं तु द्वात्रिंशत्सहस्राणि कलिः स्मृतः ३९.
Kali is said to be four hundred and thirty-two thousand years.
आयुर्मनोर्युगानां च साधिका ह्येकसप्ततिः ३९.
The lifespan of a Manu is seventy-one plus years of yugas.
युगानां च सहस्रेण स च कल्पः श्रृणुष्व तान् ३९.
A thousand yugas make a kalpa; listen to them.
सावित्र आसिकश्चापि गांधारः कुशिकस्तथा ३९.
Sāvitra, Āsika, Gāndhāra, and Kuśika as well,
वैराजश्च निषादश्च मेघवाहनपंचमौ ३९.
Vairāja and Niṣāda, and Meghavāhana as the fifth.
श्वेतो लोहितरक्तौ च पीतवासाः शिवः प्रभुः ३९.
Śveta, Lohita, Rakta, Pītavāsā, and Śiva the Lord.
पूर्वार्धमपरार्धं च ब्रह्ममानमिदं स्मृतम् ३९.
The first half and the second half are known as the measure of Brahmā.
क्वाहमल्पमतिः पार्थ क्वापरौ हरित्र्यंबकौ ३९.
How am I, of little understanding, O Pārtha, compared to the others, Hari and Tryambaka?