{"id":3646,"date":"2017-01-28T17:31:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T17:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=3646"},"modified":"2017-01-28T17:31:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T17:31:57","slug":"8-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/8-25\/","title":{"rendered":"8.25 dhUmO rAthris thathA krishNa:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><small>SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama:<\/small><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 8<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/8-24\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 8 verses 24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/8-25-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>dhUmO rAthris thathA krishNa: shaNmAsA dhakshiNAyanam |<\/em><br \/>\n<em> thathra chAndhramasam jyOthir yOgI prApya nivarthathE ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning  <\/h3>\n<p>dhUma: &#8211; smoke<br \/>\nrAthri &#8211; night<br \/>\nthathA krishNa: &#8211; in the same manner, krishNa paksha (dark fortnight beginning after full moon day)<br \/>\ndhakshiNAyanam shaNmAsA: &#8211; six months of dhakshiNAyanam (Middle of july to middle of january)<br \/>\nthathra chAndhramasam jyOthi: &#8211; and then chandhra (moon), the light (these personalities, i.e., presiding deities)<br \/>\nyOgI &#8211; yOgi, the one who has performed puNya karma (virtuous actions)<br \/>\nprApya &#8211; reaches<br \/>\nnivarthathE &#8211; and returns (to karma bhUmi &#8211; earth)<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation  <\/h3>\n<p>yOgi, the one who has performed puNya karma (virtuous actions) reaches (the personalities, i.e., presiding deities) of smoke, night, dark fortnight, six months of dhakshiNAyanam and then chandhra (moon), the light, and returns (to karma bhUmi &#8211; earth).<\/p>\n<h3>Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;Smoke, night and similarly the dark fortnight, and the six months of the south (solstitial) declination; \u2014there, attaining to Lunar light, the yogi returns.[2. This is called the <em>Dh\u016bm-\u0101di M\u0101rga<\/em> or <em>Pit\u1e5bi-y\u0101na<\/em>.]&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This indicates the Path of smoke etc., on which lies the Pit\u1e5bi-loka etc., (or the realms of the Manes). The term yogi here is used to denote the man of good deeds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/8-26\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 8 verse 26<\/a><\/p>\n<p>archived in <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\">https:\/\/githa.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>pramEyam (goal) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/koyil.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/koyil.org<\/a><br \/>\npramANam (scriptures) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/granthams.koyil.org\">http:\/\/granthams.koyil.org<\/a><br \/>\npramAthA (preceptors) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\">http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org<\/a><br \/>\nSrIvaishNava education\/kids portal \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/\">http:\/\/pillai.koyil.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 8 &lt;&lt; Chapter 8 verses 24 SlOkam \u2013 Original dhUmO rAthris thathA krishNa: shaNmAsA dhakshiNAyanam | thathra chAndhramasam jyOthir yOgI prApya nivarthathE || word-by-word meaning dhUma: &#8211; smoke rAthri &#8211; night thathA krishNa: &#8211; in the same manner, krishNa paksha (dark fortnight beginning after &#8230; <a title=\"8.25 dhUmO rAthris thathA krishNa:\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/8-25\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 8.25 dhUmO rAthris thathA krishNa:\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-8","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}