यो वा अहं च गिरिशश्च विभु: स्वयं च स्थित्युद्भवप्रलयहेतव आत्ममूलम् । भित्त्वा त्रिपाद्ववृध एक उरुप्ररोह- स्तस्मै नमो भगवते भुवनद्रुमाय ॥ १६ ॥
yo va aham ca girisas ca vibhuh svayam ca sthity-udbhava-pralaya-hetava atma-mulam bhittva tri-pad vavrdha eka uru-prarohas tasmai namo bhagavate bhuvana-drumaya
- yah
- one who
- vai
- certainly
- aham ca
- also I
- girisah ca
- also Siva
- vibhuh
- the Almighty
- svayam
- personality (as Visnu)
- ca
- and
- sthiti
- maintenance
- udbhava
- creation
- pralaya
- dissolution
- hetavah
- the causes
- atma-mulam
- self-rooted
- bhittva
- having penetrated
- tri-pat
- three trunks
- vavrdhe
- grew
- ekah
- one without a second
- uru
- many
- prarohah
- branches
- tasmai
- unto Him
- namah
- obeisances
- bhagavate
- unto the Personality of Godhead
- bhuvana-drumaya
- unto the tree of the planetary system
Your Lordship is the prime root of the tree of the planeary systems. This tree has grown by first penetrating the material nature in three trunks—as me, Siva and You, the Almighty—for creation, maintenance and dissolution, and we three have grown with many branches. Therefore I offer my obeisances unto You, the tree of the cosmic manifestation.