उवाच चाथ हर्यश्वा: कथं स्रक्ष्यथ वै प्रजा: । अदृष्ट्वान्तं भुवो यूयं बालिशा बत पालका: ॥ ६ ॥ तथैकपुरुषं राष्ट्रं बिलं चादृष्टनिर्गमम् । बहुरूपां स्त्रियं चापि पुमांसं पुंश्चलीपतिम् ॥ ७ ॥ नदीमुभयतो वाहां पञ्चपञ्चाद्भुतं गृहम् । क्वचिद्धंसं चित्रकथं क्षौरपव्यं स्वयं भ्रमि ॥ ८ ॥
uvaca catha haryasvah katham sraksyatha vai prajah adrstvantam bhuvo yuyam balisa bata palakah tathaika-purusam rastram bilam cadrsta-nirgamam bahu-rupam striyam capi pumamsam pumscali-patim nadim ubhayato vaham panca-pancadbhutam grham kvacid dhamsam citra-katham ksaura-pavyam svayam bhrami
- uvaca
- he said
- ca
- also
- atha
- thus
- haryasvah
- O Haryasvas, sons of Prajapati Daksa
- katham
- why
- sraksyatha
- you will beget
- vai
- indeed
- prajah
- progeny
- adrstva
- having not seen
- antam
- the end
- bhuvah
- of this earth
- yuyam
- all of you
- balisah
- inexperienced
- bata
- alas
- palakah
- although ruling princes
- tatha
- so also
- eka
- one
- purusam
- man
- rastram
- kingdom
- bilam
- the hole
- ca
- also
- adrsta-nirgamam
- from which there is no coming out
- bahu-rupam
- taking many forms
- striyam
- the woman
- ca
- and
- api
- even
- pumamsam
- the man
- pumscali-patim
- the husband of a prostitute
- nadim
- a river
- ubhayatah
- in both ways
- vaham
- which flows
- panca-panca
- of five multiplied by five (twenty-five)
- adbhutam
- a wonder
- grham
- the house
- kvacit
- somewhere
- hamsam
- a swan
- citra-katham
- whose story is wonderful
- ksaura-pavyam
- made of sharp razors and thunderbolts
- svayam
- itself
- bhrami
- revolving
The great sage Narada said: My dear Haryasvas, you have not seen the extremities of the earth. There is a kingdom where only one man lives and where there is a hole from which, having entered, no one emerges. A woman there who is extremely unchaste adorns herself with various attractive dresses, and the man who lives there is her husband. In that kingdom, there is a river flowing in both directions, a wonderful home made of twenty-five materials, a swan that vibrates various sounds, and an automatically revolving object made of sharp razors and thunderbolts. You have not seen all this, and therefore you are inexperienced boys without advanced knowledge. How, then, will you create progeny?