Bhūmi-khaṇḍa · Chapter 112
Sourceकुंजल उवाच- तदेव गानं च सुरांगनाभिर्गीतं समाकर्ण्य च गीतकैर्ध्रुवैः । समाकुला चापि बभूव तत्र सा शंभुपुत्री परिचिंतयाना १। आसनात्तूर्णमुत्थाय महोत्साहेन संयुता । तूर्णं गता वरारोहा तपोभावसमन्विता २। तं दृष्ट्वा देवसंकाशं दिव्यरूपसमप्रभम् । दिव्यगंधानुलिप्तांगं दिव्यमालाभिशोभितम् ३। दिव्यैराभरणैर्वस्त्रैः शोभितं नृपनंदनम् । दीप्तिमंतं यथा सूर्यं दिव्यलक्षणसंयुतम् ४। किं वा देवो महाप्राज्ञो गंधर्वो वा भविष्यति । किं वा नागसुतः सोयं किंवा विद्याधरो भवेत् ५। देवेषु नैव पश्यामि कुतो यक्षेषु जायते । अनया लीलया वीरः सहस्राक्षोपि जायते ६। शंभुरेष भवेत्किंवा किंवा चायं मनोभवः । किंवा पितुः सखा मे स्यात्पौलस्त्योऽयं धनाधिपः ७। एवं समा चिंतयती च यावत्तावत्त्वरं रूपगुणाधिपा सा । समेत्य रंभासु महासखीभिरुवाच तां शंभुसुतां प्रहस्य ८। इति श्रीपद्मपुराणे भूमिखंडे वेनोपाख्याने गुरुतीर्थमाहात्म्ये च्यवनचरित्रे नहुषाख्याने द्वादशाधिकशततमोऽध्यायः ११२।
kuṃjala uvāca- tadeva gānaṃ ca surāṃganābhirgītaṃ samākarṇya ca gītakairdhruvaiḥ | samākulā cāpi babhūva tatra sā śaṃbhuputrī pariciṃtayānā 1| āsanāttūrṇamutthāya mahotsāhena saṃyutā | tūrṇaṃ gatā varārohā tapobhāvasamanvitā 2| taṃ dṛṣṭvā devasaṃkāśaṃ divyarūpasamaprabham | divyagaṃdhānuliptāṃgaṃ divyamālābhiśobhitam 3| divyairābharaṇairvastraiḥ śobhitaṃ nṛpanaṃdanam | dīptimaṃtaṃ yathā sūryaṃ divyalakṣaṇasaṃyutam 4| kiṃ vā devo mahāprājño gaṃdharvo vā bhaviṣyati | kiṃ vā nāgasutaḥ soyaṃ kiṃvā vidyādharo bhavet 5| deveṣu naiva paśyāmi kuto yakṣeṣu jāyate | anayā līlayā vīraḥ sahasrākṣopi jāyate 6| śaṃbhureṣa bhavetkiṃvā kiṃvā cāyaṃ manobhavaḥ | kiṃvā pituḥ sakhā me syātpaulastyo'yaṃ dhanādhipaḥ 7| evaṃ samā ciṃtayatī ca yāvattāvattvaraṃ rūpaguṇādhipā sā | sametya raṃbhāsu mahāsakhībhiruvāca tāṃ śaṃbhusutāṃ prahasya 8| iti śrīpadmapurāṇe bhūmikhaṃḍe venopākhyāne gurutīrthamāhātmye cyavanacaritre nahuṣākhyāne dvādaśādhikaśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ 112|
English translation
Kuñjala said :
1-4. Hearing that song sung by the celestial women and being affected by the songs and their introductory stanzas, that beautiful daughter of Śiva , pondering, quickly getting up from her seat, and being full of great enthusiasm, possessed of penance and devotion, and seeing the prince who resembled a god, whose lustre was like that of a divine form, whose body was besmeared with divine sandal (-paste), who was adorned with divine garlands, who was graced with divine ornaments and garments, who was bright like the sun, who was having divine marks, (thought:)
5-7. ‘Can he be a god, or a very wise gandharva ? May he be the son of a nāga (snake) or a vidyādhara ? How can he be born among the yakṣas , (when) I do not observe (such a form) even among gods? Even Indra might have been born as this hero (as is seen) from this ease (of him). May he be Śiva or is this Cupid? Or is he Kubera , Pulastya ’s son, and my father’s friend?’
8. When she, the most beautiful and virtuous one was thinking like this, Rambhā , having come there with her great friends, smiled and said to her:
Complete chapter-aligned witnesses. Sanskrit Wikisource page 43149, revision 335681 (2022-04-12T19:00:08Z). English is N. A. Deshpande’s complete translation, controlled against its chapter page at https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-padma-purana/d/doc365205.html and the ten-volume archival witness. The witnesses are aligned at chapter level; no unsupported verse-by-verse equivalence is asserted.