स्थालीस्थानं गतोऽश्वत्थं शमीगर्भं विलक्ष्य स: । तेन द्वे अरणी कृत्वा उर्वशीलोककाम्यया ॥ ४४ ॥ उर्वशीं मन्त्रतो ध्यायन्नधरारणिमुत्तराम् । आत्मानमुभयोर्मध्ये यत् तत् प्रजननं प्रभु: ॥ ४५ ॥
sthali-sthanam gato ’svattham sami-garbham vilaksya sah tena dve arani krtva urvasi-loka-kamyaya urvasim mantrato dhyayann adhararanim uttaram atmanam ubhayor madhye yat tat prajananam prabhuh
- sthali-sthanam
- the place where Agnisthali was left
- gatah
- going there
- asvattham
- an asvattha tree
- sami-garbham
- produced from the womb of the sami tree
- vilaksya
- seeing
- sah
- he, Pururava
- tena
- from that
- dve
- two
- arani
- pieces of wood required for igniting a fire for sacrifice
- krtva
- making
- urvasi-loka-kamyaya
- desiring to go to the planet where Urvasi was present
- urvasim
- Urvasi
- mantratah
- by chanting the required mantra
- dhyayan
- meditating upon
- adhara
- lower
- aranim
- arani wood
- uttaram
- and the upper one
- atmanam
- himself
- ubhayoh madhye
- in between the two
- yat tat
- that which (he meditated upon)
- prajananam
- as a son
- prabhuh
- the King
When the process of fruitive yajna became manifest within his heart, King Pururava went to the same spot where he had left Agnisthali. There he saw that from the womb of a sami tree, an asvattha tree had grown. He then took a piece of wood from that tree and made it into two aranis. Desiring to go to the planet where Urvasi resided, he chanted mantras, meditating upon the lower arani as Urvasi, the upper one as himself, and the piece of wood between them as his son. In this way he began to ignite a fire.