dharany uvaca bhavan hi veda tat sarvam yan mam dharmanuprcchasi caturbhir vartase yena padair loka-sukhavahaih
- dharani uvaca
- mother earth replied
- bhavan
- your good self
- hi
- certainly
- veda
- know
- tat sarvam
- all that you have inquired from me
- yat
- that
- mam
- from me
- dharma
- O personality of religious principles
- anuprcchasi
- you have inquired one after another
- caturbhih
- by four
- vartase
- you exist
- yena
- by which
- padaih
- by the legs
- loka
- in each and every plane
- sukha-avahaih
- increasing the happiness.
The earthly deity (in the form of a cow) thus replied to the personality of religious principles (in the form of a bull): O Dharma, whatever you have inquired from me shall be known to you. I shall try to reply to all those questions. Once you too were maintained by your four legs, and you increased happiness all over the universe by the mercy of the Lord.