स एष संवत्सरः प्रजापतिः षोडशकलस्तस्य रात्रय एव पञ्चदश कला ध्रुवैवास्य षोडशी कला ।स रात्रिभिरेवाऽऽ च पूर्यते ऽप च क्षीयते ।सोऽमावास्याँ रात्रिमेतया षोडश्या कलया सर्वमिदं प्राणभृदनुप्रविश्य ततः प्रातर्जायते ।तस्मादेताँ रात्रिं प्राणभृतः प्राणं न विच्छिन्द्यादपि कृकलासस्यैतस्या एव देवताया अपचित्यै ॥ अपचित्यै
sa eṣa saṃvatsaraḥ prajāpatiḥ ṣoḍaśakalastasya rātraya eva pañcadaśa kalā dhruvaivāsya ṣoḍaśī kalā | sa rātribhirevā'' ca pūryate 'pa ca kṣīyate | so'māvāsyām̐ rātrimetayā ṣoḍaśyā kalayā sarvamidaṃ prāṇabhṛdanupraviśya tataḥ prātarjāyate | tasmādetām̐ rātriṃ prāṇabhṛtaḥ prāṇaṃ na vicchindyādapi kṛkalāsasyaitasyā eva devatāyā apacityai || apacityai
अर्थMeaning
That Pragâpati is the year, and he consists of sixteen digits. The nights indeed are his fifteen digits, the fixed point his sixteenth digit. He is increased and decreased by the nights. Having on the new-moon night entered with the sixteenth part into everything that has life, he is thence born again in the morning. Therefore let no one cut off the life of any living thing on that night, not even of a lizard, in honour (pûgârtham) of that deity.
Direct literal rendering preserving Sanskrit philosophical terminology.
व्याख्याVyakhya
वही यह संवत्सर प्रजापति सोलह कलाओं वाला है। रात्रियाँ ही उसकी पन्द्रह कलाएँ हैं और ध्रुवा (स्थिर रहने वाली) उसकी सोलहवीं कला है। वह रात्रियों से ही बढ़ता और घटता है। अमावस्या की रात्रि में वह इस सोलहवीं कला से इन सब प्राणधारियों में प्रवेश करके फिर प्रातःकाल उत्पन्न होता है। इसलिए इस देवता के सम्मान के लिए उस रात्रि में किसी प्राणधारी के प्राण न ले, गिरगिट के भी नहीं।
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