जन्मादयस्तु देहस्य विक्रियानात्मन: क्वचित् । कलानामिव नैवेन्दोर्मृतिर्ह्यस्य कुहूरिव ॥ ४७ ॥
janmādayas tu dehasya vikriyā nātmanaḥ kvacit kalānām iva naivendor mṛtir hy asya kuhūr iva
- janma-ādayaḥ
- birth and so on
- tu
- but
- dehasya
- of the body
- vikriyāḥ
- transformations
- na
- not
- ātmanaḥ
- of the self
- kvacit
- ever
- kalānām
- of the phases
- iva
- as
- na
- not
- eva
- indeed
- indoḥ
- of the moon
- mṛtiḥ
- the death
- hi
- indeed
- asya
- of it
- kuhūḥ
- the new moon day
- iva
- as
Birth and other transformations are undergone by the body but never by the self, just as change occurs for the moon’s phases but never for the moon, though the new-moon day may be called the moon’s “death.”