एवमेतेषु भेदेषु चिरं ध्यात्वा स आत्मभू: । सत्या: के कतरे नेति ज्ञातुं नेष्टे कथञ्चन ॥ ४३ ॥
evam eteṣu bhedeṣu ciraṁ dhyātvā sa ātma-bhūḥ satyāḥ ke katare neti jñātuṁ neṣṭe kathañcana
- evam
- in this way
- eteṣu bhedeṣu
- between these boys, who were existing separately
- ciram
- for a long time
- dhyātvā
- after thinking
- saḥ
- he
- ātma-bhūḥ
- Lord Brahmā
- satyāḥ
- real
- ke
- who
- katare
- who
- na
- are not
- iti
- thus
- jñātum
- to understand
- na
- not
- iṣṭe
- was able
- kathañcana
- in any way at all
Thus Lord Brahmā, thinking and thinking for a long time, tried to distinguish between those two sets of boys, who were each separately existing. He tried to understand who was real and who was not real, but he couldn’t understand at all.