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Chapter 10<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 10 verse 32<\/a><\/p>\n aksharANAm akAro\u2019smi dhvandhva: sAmAsikasya cha |<\/em> aksharANAm – among alphabets Among alphabets, I am akAram (“a”); among compound word formations,I am dhvandhva samAsam (compound word with importance to both words in the formation); I am the endless time and I am brahmA the creator (of entities within the universe he controls) who is having a face for each of the four directions.<\/p>\n ‘Of the alphabet, I am the letter A; of compound- words, the dvandva<\/em>[3. Compound formations such as R\u0101ma-Lakshma\u1e47a<\/em>.]. I Myself am the perishless Time. I am the all-faced Dh\u0101t\u1e5bi.’<\/span><\/p>\n Among the letters of the Alphabet, I am the letter A, which is the base or root of all other letters. So says \u015aruti:<\/span><\/p>\n ‘A-k\u0101ra (or Letter A) itself is all speech.'[4. Rig Veda: Aitareya-\u0100ra\u1e47yaka <\/em> III-2-3 ‘Akaro vai sarv\u0101-v\u0101k.’]<\/span><\/p>\n S\u0101m\u0101sika\u1e25<\/em> means the class of sam\u0101s\u0101\u1e25<\/em> or compound word-forming (as in Samsk\u1e5bit). Of the several ways of compounding, I am the collective-compound or compound of which all the terms are substantives or attributes, each term being of equal value with the other, grammatically.<\/span><\/p>\n I am Time \u2014never-ending, \u2014composed of the divisions, called kal\u0101[1. Kal\u0101<\/em>= about 8 Seconds, Muh\u016brta = 1\/30 of the day.] and muh\u016brta[2. Kal\u0101<\/em>= about 8 Seconds, Muh\u016brta = 1\/30 of the day.].<\/span><\/p>\n I am the Creator of all, viz<\/em>: Dh\u0101tri<\/em>=Hira\u1e47yagarbha<\/em>= the four-faced (Demiurge).<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 10 verse 34<\/a><\/p>\n archived in https:\/\/githa.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n pramEyam (goal) \u2013 http:\/\/koyil.org<\/a> SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 10 << Chapter 10 verse 32 SlOkam \u2013 Original aksharANAm akAro\u2019smi dhvandhva: sAmAsikasya cha | aham evAkshaya: kAlO dhAthAham viSvathOmukha: || word-by-word meaning aksharANAm – among alphabets akAra: asmi – (I am) akAram (“a”) sAmAsikasya cha – among compound word formations dhvandhva: asmi – … 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":[3,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-10","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178","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=4178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14520,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions\/14520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n aham evAkshaya: kAlO dhAthAham viSvathOmukha: ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n
\nakAra: asmi – (I am) akAram (“a”)
\nsAmAsikasya cha – among compound word formations
\ndhvandhva: asmi – I am dhvandhva samAsam (compound word with importance to both words in the formation)
\nakshaya: kAla: – endless time
\naham Eva – I am only
\nviSvathOmukha: – one who is having a face for each of the four directions
\ndhAthA – brahmA the creator (of entities within the universe he controls)
\naham – I am<\/p>\nSimple Translation<\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
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