Shloka 36.7Unverified draft
पुरा राम कृतोद्वाहो नीलकण्ठो महातपा:। दृष्ट्वा च स्पृहया देवीं मैथुनायोपचक्रमे।।1.36.6।।
Meaning
Long ago, Rama, the blue-throated great ascetic, having wed and gazed upon the goddess with longing, began to make love to her.
Word-by-word (pada-artha)
| Word | Devanagari | Meaning | Grammatical role |
|---|---|---|---|
| purā rāma kṛta-udvāhaḥ | पुरा राम कृत-उद्वाहः | formerly, O Rama, having married | Nominative singular / Vocative |
| nīla-kaṇṭhaḥ mahā-tapāḥ | नील-कण्ठः महा-तपाः | the blue-throated one, of great austerity | Nominative singular |
| dṛṣṭvā ca spṛhayā devīm | दृष्ट्वा च स्पृहया देवीम् | having seen the goddess with desire | Gerund / Instrumental / Accusative |
| maithunāya upacakrame | मैथुनाय उपचक्रमे | began the act of union | Dative / Verb (perfect, middle) |
Scholar commentary
valmikiramayan.net Prose Commentary
Desiraju Hanumanta Rao's prose rendering with embedded explanatory notes
The source glosses the hundred divine years of Shiva and Uma's lovemaking as equivalent to 36,000 mortal years, following the yuga calculation in which two thousand cycles of the four yugas -- krita, treta, dvapara, kali -- make up one day of Brahma.
1 of 16 traditions have commentary on this shloka. Traditions without a verse-specific commentary here are omitted rather than filled in.
Reference: 1.36.7 · Bāla Kāṇḍa