L1avataranika
tatra pūrve vibhāge’smin bhakti-bheda-nirūpake |
tatrathere — turning now to the work itself adverb, resumptive; sets the sceneवहाँ, अर्थात् उस प्रसंग में
asmin pūrve vibhāgein this first division locative; pūrva = 'eastern', here 'first' (the opening of four divisions)इस प्रथम विभाग में (पूर्व = पहला, चार विभागों का आरम्भ)
bhakti-bheda-nirūpakewhich lays out the different kinds of devotion locative, describes this divisionजो भक्ति के भेदों का निरूपण करता है — ऐसे इस विभाग में
tatra — there; asmin pūrve vibhāge — in this first division; bhakti-bheda-nirūpake — which lays out the different kinds of devotion
tatra — वहाँ, उस प्रसंग में; asmin pūrve vibhāge — इस प्रथम विभाग में; bhakti-bheda-nirūpake — जो भक्ति के भेदों का निरूपण करता है।
Now to the book itself. This is the first of its divisions. Its job is to lay out the different kinds of bhakti (devotion).
इस ग्रन्थ के इस पहले विभाग में, जो भक्ति के भेदों का निरूपण करता है —
pūrva: home sense 'eastern' (a direction); here it means 'first, the opening one' — the four divisions are named after the four directions, so 'eastern' = the first section. Mukunda's gloss confirms it: pūrve prathame, 'in the Eastern, that is, the first.'
पूर्व का मूल अर्थ है 'पूर्व दिशा का'; परन्तु यहाँ इसका तात्पर्य है 'प्रथम, आरम्भ का' — चारों विभागों के नाम चार दिशाओं पर रखे गए हैं, अतः 'पूर्व' विभाग का अर्थ हुआ पहला विभाग। मुकुन्द की टीका इसकी पुष्टि करती है — 'पूर्वे प्रथमे', अर्थात् 'पूर्व अर्थात् प्रथम विभाग में'।
L2avataranika
anukrameṇa vaktavyaṁ laharīṇāṁ catuṣṭayam ||
laharīṇāṁ catuṣṭayama set of four waves catuṣṭayam is the subject; laharī = 'wave', the name for a chapter hereलहरियों का चतुष्टय, अर्थात् चार लहरियाँ (यहाँ 'लहरी' अध्याय का नाम है)
anukrameṇaone after another, in order instrumental of mannerक्रम से, क्रमशः
vaktavyamis to be told, will be presented gerundive (future passive participle)कहा जाना चाहिए, अर्थात् वर्णन किया जाना है
laharīṇāṁ catuṣṭayam — a set of four waves; anukrameṇa — in order; vaktavyam — is to be told
laharīṇāṁ catuṣṭayam — चार लहरियाँ; anukrameṇa — क्रमशः; vaktavyam — कही जानी हैं।
Four waves are to be told, one after another, in order. Here 'wave' (laharī) is the name for a chapter — fitting for a book called an 'ocean' (sindhu). So this first division will unfold in four such chapters.
यहाँ क्रम से चार लहरियाँ कही जानी हैं।
laharī: ordinary sense 'a wave' of water; here it is the technical name for a chapter-unit, chosen to match the title Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, 'the ocean of the nectar of devotional rasa' — an ocean naturally has waves.
लहरी का साधारण अर्थ है जल की 'लहर'; परन्तु यहाँ यह अध्याय के लिए रखी गई पारिभाषिक संज्ञा है। यह नाम ग्रन्थ के शीर्षक भक्ति-रसामृत-सिन्धु ('भक्ति-रस के अमृत का समुद्र') से मेल खाता है — समुद्र में स्वभावतः लहरें उठती ही हैं।
Commentary — decoded
Jīva Gosvāmī + Viśvanātha Cakravartī
s1other
na vyākhyātam.
nanot negative particleनहीं
vyākhyātamexplained, commented on past passive participle, neuter nom. sg. — 'it has been explained'व्याख्या की गई है, इसे समझाया गया है
na — not; vyākhyātam — explained. Together: 'not explained' — i.e. no comment was offered here.
na — नहीं; vyākhyātam — व्याख्या की गई।
Śrī Jīva and Śrī Viśvanātha give no comment on this verse. The two words mean simply 'not explained': they passed over this structural verse without a gloss. A lecturer should note the silence and move on; there is nothing here from these two commentators to decode.
(इस श्लोक की) व्याख्या नहीं की गई।
This is an editorial skip-marker, not an argument. The verse (1.1.8) merely announces the four waves of the Eastern division, so these commentators left it unglossed.
यह कोई तर्क नहीं, अपितु सम्पादकीय रूप से 'यहाँ व्याख्या नहीं की' — ऐसा सूचित करने वाला चिह्न है। यह श्लोक (१.१.८) केवल पूर्व विभाग की चार लहरियों की घोषणा करता है, इसीलिए इन टीकाकारों ने इसकी व्याख्या नहीं की।
Mukunda-dāsa Gosvāmī
s1gloss
tatra caturṣu vibhāgeṣu madhye pūrve prathame ||
tatrathere — picking up the verse's own "there," pointing to what is about to be laid out adverb; echoes tatra of the mula
caturṣu vibhāgeṣu madhyeamong the four divisions — within the whole set of four vibhāgas locative of place: among/within
pūrvein the former one — the verse-word being explained (it can mean "eastern" too) locative; the lemma under gloss
prathamethat is, in the first one — this is what "former" means here locative, in apposition; the gloss of pūrve
tatra — there; caturṣu vibhāgeṣu madhye — among the four divisions; pūrve — in the former one; prathame — that is, in the first one.
Mukunda explains the verse's opening. "There," he says, means: among the four divisions. And the verse's word "former" means the first one. So he is pinning down which division is meant — the first of the four.
pūrve: at home the word means both "eastern" (in space) and "former, earlier" (in order). Mukunda's one-word gloss prathame settles it here to the ordinal sense — "the first" of the four divisions, not a direction.