तुष्टस्तस्मै स भगवानृषये प्रियमावहन् । स्वां च वाचमृतां कुर्वन्निदमाह विशाम्पते ॥ ३८ ॥ मासं पुमान् स भविता मासं स्री तव गोत्रज: । इत्थं व्यवस्थया कामं सुद्युम्नोऽवतु मेदिनीम् ॥ ३९ ॥
tustas tasmai sa bhagavan rsaye priyam avahan svam ca vacam rtam kurvann idam aha visampate masam puman sa bhavita masam stri tava gotrajah ittham vyavasthaya kamam sudyumno ’vatu medinim
- tustah
- being pleased
- tasmai
- unto Vasistha
- sah
- he (Lord Siva)
- bhagavan
- the most powerful
- rsaye
- unto the great sage
- priyam avahan
- just to please him
- svam ca
- his own
- vacam
- word
- rtam
- true
- kurvan
- and keeping
- idam
- this
- aha
- said
- visampate
- O King Pariksit
- masam
- one month
- puman
- male
- sah
- Sudyumna
- bhavita
- will become
- masam
- another month
- stri
- female
- tava
- your
- gotra-jah
- disciple born in your disciplic succession
- ittham
- in this way
- vyavasthaya
- by settlement
- kamam
- according to desire
- sudyumnah
- King Sudyumna
- avatu
- may rule
- medinim
- the world
O King Pariksit, Lord Siva was pleased with Vasistha. Therefore, to satisfy him and to keep his own word to Parvati, Lord Siva said to that saintly person, “Your disciple Sudyumna may remain a male for one month and a female for the next. In this way he may rule the world as he likes.”