सोऽदित्यां वीर्यमाधत्त तपसा चिरसम्भृतम् । समाहितमना राजन्दारुण्यग्निं यथानिल: ॥ २३ ॥
so ’dityam viryam adhatta tapasa cira-sambhrtam samahita-mana rajan daruny agnim yathanilah
- sah
- Kasyapa
- adityam
- unto Aditi
- viryam
- semen
- adhatta
- placed
- tapasa
- by austerity
- cira-sambhrtam
- restrained for long, long years
- samahita-manah
- being fully in trance upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- rajan
- O King
- daruni
- as in firewood
- agnim
- fire
- yatha
- as
- anilah
- wind.
O King, as the wind promotes friction between two pieces of wood and thus gives rise to fire, Kasyapa Muni, whose transcendental position was fully absorbed in the Supreme Personality of Godhead, transferred his potency into the womb of Aditi.