ततस्तु ता: प्राश्य तदुत्तमास्त्रियो महीपतेरुत्तमपायसं पृथक्। हुताशनादित्यसमानतेजसो ऽचिरेण गर्भान्प्रतिपेदिरे तदा।।1.16.31।।
Meaning
Then those excellent women, having each eaten their share of the divine payasam, soon conceived, their wombs glowing with a splendor equal to fire and the sun.
Word-by-word (pada-artha)
| Word | Devanagari | Meaning | Grammatical role |
|---|---|---|---|
| tataḥ tu tāḥ prāśya tat | ततः तु ताः प्राश्य तत् | then those, having eaten that | Gerund (having done) |
| uttamāḥ striyaḥ mahī-pateḥ | उत्तमाः स्त्रियः मही-पतेः | excellent women, of the lord of the earth | Nominative plural |
| uttama-pāyasam pṣthak | उत्तम-पायसम् प्ष्थक् | the excellent rice-pudding separately | Accusative singular |
| hutāśana-āditya-samāna-tejasaḥ | हुताशन-आदित्य-समान-तेजसः | of splendor equal to fire and the sun | Nominative plural |
| acireṇa garbhān pratipedire tadā | अचिरेण गर्भान् प्रतिपेदिरे तदा | soon conceived, then | Verb (perfect, middle) |
Scholar commentary
valmikiramayan.net Prose Commentary
Desiraju Hanumanta Rao's prose rendering with embedded explanatory notes
The source reads 'wombs glowing like fire and sun' as a synecdochic figure of speech rather than literal description: the queens are described this way because Fire and Sun, as pratyaksha naaraayaNa (visible forms of the divine that sustain living beings), are being invoked to signal the extraordinary nature of what the queens now carry.
1 of 16 traditions have commentary on this shloka. Traditions without a verse-specific commentary here are omitted rather than filled in.
Reference: 1.16.31 · Bāla Kāṇḍa