सिन्धुदेवो जयत्य् एकच्छत्त्रभूमण्डलाधिपः । इत्य् अनन्तरम् आरेमुर् भेर्यः प्रतिपुरं तदा
Then, in every city, drums were sounded, proclaiming, 'Victory to King Sindhudeva, sovereign of the single-umbrella realm!'
राजधानीं विवेशाथ सिन्धुर् उद्धतकन्धरः । प्रजास् स्रष्टुं युगस्यान्ते मनुर् जगद् इवापरः
Sindhu, his neck held high, entered the capital city, as if he were another Manu at the end of an age, about to create new subjects for the world.
प्रवृत्ता दशदिग्भ्यो ऽथ प्रवेष्टुं सैन्धवं पुरम् । नराः करिहयागारै रत्नपूरा इवाम्भुधिम्
Then people from all ten directions began to enter the city of Sindhu, like treasures pouring into the ocean from stables of elephants and horses.
निबन्धनानि चिह्नानि शासनानि दिशां प्रति । क्षणं निवेशयाम् आसुर् मण्डलं प्रति मन्त्रिणः
For a moment, the ministers established regulations, marks, and decrees for each region and for the entire realm.
उदभूद् अचिरेणैव देशे देशे पुरे पुरे । जीविते मरणे माने नियमो यमतो यथा
Very soon, in every land and every city, order arose in life and death, in honor and dishonor, just as discipline comes from Yama.
अथ शेमुर् निमेषेण देशोपप्लवविभ्रमाः । प्रशान्तोत्पातपवनाः पदार्थावृत्तयो यथा
Then, in an instant, the disturbances and confusions of the land subsided, as the winds of calamity were calmed and things returned to their proper course.
सौम्यताम् आजगामाशु देशो दशदिगन्वितः । क्षीरोदः क्षुभितावर्तो द्राग् इवोद्वृत्तमन्दरः
The region, adorned with the ten directions, swiftly became gentle, like the ocean of milk with its churning waves, suddenly calmed after the Mandara mountain was raised.
ववुर् अलकचयान् विलोलयन्तो मुखकमलालिमुखानि सैन्धवीनाम् । जललववलनाकुलास् समीरा अशिवगुणा इव सर्वतः क्षणेन
Winds blew, tossing the locks of hair and stirring the lotus-like faces of the Sindhu women; everywhere, in an instant, the air was filled with restless gusts, as if bearing inauspicious qualities.
एतस्मिन्न् अन्तरे लीला समुवाच सरस्वतीम् । श्वासावशेषम् आलोक्य पूर्वं भर्तारम् अग्रगम्
At that moment, Lila spoke to Sarasvati, having first observed her husband, who was left with only a breath of life.
प्रवृत्तो देहम् उत्स्रष्टुं मद्भर्तायम् इहाम्बिके । स्थिता च मृतकल्पेयं लीला निस्स्पन्दगात्रिका
My husband here, O Ambika, is about to abandon his body; and this Lila, too, stands as if lifeless, her limbs unmoving.
देहेनानेन गन्तव्यम् अनया वीरभार्यया । यत्रावाभ्यां च तत् स्थानं कथं गन्तव्यम् अम्बिके
With this body, this wife of the hero must go—tell me, O Ambika, how shall we reach that place where both of us must go?
एवंरूपमहारम्भे सङ्ग्रामे राष्ट्रसम्भ्रमे । संपन्ने ऽपि स्थिते ऽप्य् उच्चैर् विचित्रारम्भमन्थरे
Even when such a great undertaking is set in motion—a battle, a nation's turmoil—even if it seems to be happening, or is underway, or is loudly proclaimed, its marvelous beginnings are slow to manifest.
न किञ्चिद् अपि संपन्नं राष्ट्रं न च महीतलम् । न स्थितं क्वचनाप्य् एवं स्वप्नात्मकम् इदं यतः
Nothing at all is accomplished; neither the kingdom nor the earth itself remains anywhere as it is, for all this is of the nature of a dream.
तस्य त्वन्मण्डपस्यान्तश् शवस्य निकटाम्बरे । इत्थं भूराष्ट्रम् आभाति भर्तृजीवस्य ते ऽनघे
Within the pavilion, near the corpse, in the space beside it, O sinless one, the kingdom of the earth appears thus, as the domain of your husband's life.
अन्तःपुरगृहं ते तद् इदं राष्ट्रान्वितोदरम् । वसिष्ठविप्रगेहे ऽन्तश् शवगेहे जगत् स्थितम्
That inner chamber of yours is this house, whose belly is joined to the kingdom; within the house of sage Vasiṣṭha, within the house of corpses, the world abides.
एवम् एष महारम्भो जगत्त्रयमयो भ्रमः । त्वया मयानयानेन संयुक्तस् सार्णवावनिः
Thus, this vast undertaking is a delusion composed of the three worlds; you, I, and this vehicle are united with the oceanic earth.
गिरिग्रामकगेहे ऽन्तर् मध्ये गगनकोशके । खात्मावकचति व्यक्तो न कचत्य् एव वा क्वचित्
Within the mountain village house, in the midst of the sky-vessel, the self of space moves about manifestly, or does not move at all anywhere.
एवम् आरम्भघनयोर् अपि मण्डपयोस् तयोः । उदरे शून्यम् आकाशम् एवास्ति न जगद्भ्रमः
In this way, even in the dense halls of these two pavilions, within their belly, only empty space exists; there is no delusion of the world.
भ्रमद्रष्टुर् अभावे हि कीदृशी भ्रमता भ्रमे । नास्त्य् एव भ्रमसत्ता तु यद् अस्ति तद् अजं पदम्
For, in the absence of the one who perceives the wandering, what kind of wandering can there be in the wandering? There is truly no existence of delusion; what exists is the unborn state.
भ्रमे दृश्यम् असत् तस्य द्रष्टुर् द्रष्टृदशा कुतः । द्रष्टृदृश्यक्रमाभावाद् अत्र यत् सहजं हि तत्
In delusion, the visible is unreal; for that, how can there be a state of the seer? Because of the absence of the sequence of seer and seen, what is innate here is that.
तत् पदं परमं विद्धि नाशोत्पादविवर्जितम् । स्वकं कचति चाभातं शान्तम् आद्यम् अनामयम्
Know that supreme state, free from destruction and origination; it moves as its own, unmanifest, peaceful, primordial, and free from affliction.
किल मण्डपगेहान्तस् स्वस्वभावोदितात्मनि । विहरन्ति जनास् तत्र स्वगृहे संव्यवस्थया
Indeed, within the pavilion-house, people dwell in their own nature-arisen self; there, in their own house, they abide by their own arrangement.
न जगत् तत्र नो सर्गः कश्चित् तैर् अनुभूयते । तेनाहं जगद् आकाशम् अजम् इत्य् एव वच्मि ते
There is no world there, nor is any creation experienced by them; therefore, I say to you that this world is like space, unborn.
सर्वं शून्यात्मविज्ञानं मेर्वादिगिरिजालकम् । नेदं कुड्यमयं किञ्चिद् यथा स्वप्ने महापुरम्
All is consciousness of the nature of emptiness; the ranges of mountains from Meru onward are not made of walls, just as a great city in a dream is not.
देशे प्रादेशमात्रे ऽपि गिरिजालमयान्य् अपि । वज्रसाराणि खान्य् एव सम्भवन्त्य् अणुके ऽणुके
Even within a space the size of a thumb, mountain ranges and other such things, though thought to be hard as diamond, arise only as empty forms in each tiny atom.
कदलीपल्लवापीडसन्निवेशेन भूरिशः । त्रिजगच् चिदणाव् अन्तर् अस्ति स्वप्नपुरं यथा
Just as the layers of a plantain's leaf are arranged one within another, so too, within each atomic consciousness of the three worlds, there exists a dream-city.
तस्याप्य् अन्तर् विभागेन क्रमाद् एकैकशो जगत् । तेषां यस्मिञ् जगत्य् एव पद्मो राजा शवस् स्थितः
Within that, by further division, world after world arises in succession; in one such world, Padma, the king, lies as a corpse.
लीला तव सपत्नी तं प्राप्ता पूर्वतरं शुभे । यदैव मूर्छाम् आयाता लीलेयं पुरतस् तव । तदैव भर्तुः पद्मस्य शवस्य निकटे स्थिता
O auspicious one, your co-wife Lila reached there before you; at the very moment this Lila, your counterpart, entered into unconsciousness before you, she stood near the corpse of her husband Padma.
कथम् एषा गता देवि सम्पन्ना तत्र देहिनी । कथं कथं वा तत्पत्नीभावम् आप्तवती स्थिता
How did she, O goddess, go there and become embodied? And how did she attain and remain in the state of being his wife?
ते वास्या वद किं रूपं पश्यन्त्य् अथ वदन्ति किम् । तद्गेहवरवास्तव्यास् समासेनेति मे वद
Tell me, what form do those women see or speak of there? Tell me briefly about the chief residents of that house.