संस्थापयैनां जगतां सतस्थुषां लोकाय पत्नीमसि मातरं पिता । विधेम चास्यै नमसा सह त्वया यस्यां स्वतेजोऽग्निमिवारणावधा: ॥ ४२ ॥
samsthapayainam jagatam sa-tasthusam lokaya patnim asi mataram pita vidhema casyai namasa saha tvaya yasyam sva-tejo ’gnim ivaranav adhah
- samsthapaya enam
- raise this earth
- jagatam
- both the moving and
- sa-tasthusam
- nonmoving
- lokaya
- for their residence
- patnim
- wife
- asi
- You are
- mataram
- the mother
- pita
- the father
- vidhema
- do we offer
- ca
- also
- asyai
- unto the mother
- namasa
- with all obeisances
- saha
- along with
- tvaya
- with You
- yasyam
- in whom
- sva-tejah
- by Your own potency
- agnim
- fire
- iva
- likened
- aranau
- in the arani wood
- adhah
- invested
O Lord, for the residential purposes of all inhabitants, both moving and nonmoving, this earth is Your wife, and You are the supreme father. We offer our respectful obeisances unto You, along with mother earth, in whom You have invested Your own potency, just as an expert sacrificer puts fire in the arani wood.