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मृत्युः सर्वहरश्चाहमुद्भवश्च भविष्यताम्। कीर्तिः श्रीर्वाक्च नारीणां स्मृतिर्मेधा धृतिः क्षमा।।10.34।।

mṛityuḥ sarva-haraśh chāham udbhavaśh cha bhaviṣhyatām kīrtiḥ śhrīr vāk cha nārīṇāṁ smṛitir medhā dhṛitiḥ kṣhamā

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 10, Verse 34
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
And I am the all-devouring Death, and the source of prosperity for those who are to be prosperous; among the feminine qualities, I am fame, prosperity, speech, memory, intelligence, firmness, and forgiveness.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: he is all-devouring death, and the origin of things yet to come, among feminine qualities, fame, prosperity, speech, memory, intelligence, steadfastness, and patience, again including difficult realities like death alongside admirable qualities within the same unified list.

In life: including something as difficult as death within the same list as admirable, life-giving qualities suggests that even the hardest realities of existence belong to the same unified whole, not some separate, excluded category.

Teaching: practice including your own hardest realities, loss, endings, mortality, within your sense of a unified, meaningful whole, rather than treating them as an excluded, separate category from everything else you value.

mṛityuḥdeath
sarva-haraḥall-devouring
chaand
ahamI
udbhavaḥthe origin
chaand
bhaviṣhyatāmthose things that are yet to be
kīrtiḥfame
śhrīḥprospective
vākfine speech
chaand
nārīṇāmamongst feminine qualities
smṛitiḥmemory
medhāintelligence
dhṛitiḥcourage
kṣhamāforgiveness

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
10.34 मृत्युः death? सर्वहरः alldevouring? च and? अहम् I? उद्भवः the prosperity? च and? भविष्यताम् of those who are to be prosperous? कीर्तिः frame? श्रीः prosperity? वाक् speech? च and? नारीणाम् of the feminine? स्मृतिः the memory? मेधा intelligence? धृतिः firmness? क्षमा forgiveness.Commentary I am also the allsnatching death that destroys everything. Death is of two kinds? viz.? he who seizes wealth and he who seizes life. Of them he who seizes life is the allseizer and,hence he is called Sarvaharah. I am he.Or? there is another interpretation. I am the Supreme Lord Who is the allseizer? because I destroy everything at the time of the cosmic dissolution.I am the origin of all the beings to be born in the future. I am the prosperity and the means of achieving it of those who are fit to attain it.Beauty is Sri. Lustre is Sri. I am fame? the best of the feminine alities. People who have attained slight fame think that they have achieved great success in life and that they have become very big or great men. I am speech which adorns the throne of justice. I am memory which recalls objects and pleasures of the past.The power of the mind which enables one to hold the teachings of the scriptures is Medha. Firmness or Dhriti is the power to keep the body and the senses steady even amidst various kinds of sufferings. The power to keep oneself unattached even while doing actions is Dhriti. It also means courage. Kshama also means endurance.Fame? prosperity? memory? intelligence and firmness are the daughters of Daksha. They had been given in marriage to Dhrama and so they are all called Dharmapatnis.