योगवासिष्ठः yogavāsiṣṭhaḥ - book-7, chapter-84, verse-21

स्पन्दान्करोति धत्तेऽन्तः कल्पितावयवात्मिका ।
काली कमलिनी काली क्रिया ब्रह्माण्डकालिका ॥ २१ ॥

spandānkaroti dhatte'ntaḥ kalpitāvayavātmikā ,
kālī kamalinī kālī kriyā brahmāṇḍakālikā 21

21. spandān karoti dhatte antaḥ kalpitāvayavātmikā
kālī kamalinī kālī kriyā brahmāṇḍakālikā

21. kālī kalpitāvayavātmikā spandān karoti antaḥ
dhatte kamalinī kālī kriyā brahmāṇḍakālikā

21. Kālī, whose intrinsic nature (ātman) is composed of imagined parts, generates pulsations and holds them within. She is Kālī, like a lotus-grove (kamalinī), she is Kālī, she is action (kriyā), the very power of time (kālikā) of the cosmic egg (brahmāṇḍa).

Words meanings summery:

• स्पन्दान् (spandān) - pulsations, vibrations, movements

• करोति (karoti) - does, makes, creates

• धत्ते (dhatte) - holds, carries, places, assumes

• अन्तः (antaḥ) - within, inside, internal

• कल्पितावयवात्मिका (kalpitāvayavātmikā) - whose nature consists of imagined parts, having imagined parts as its self (ātman)

• काली (kālī) - Kālī (the goddess); black; time

• कमलिनी (kamalinī) - a lotus-grove, metaphor for beauty or abundance (lotus pond, collection of lotuses; a lotus-like woman)

• काली (kālī) - Kālī (the goddess); black; time

• क्रिया (kriyā) - cosmic action, creative activity (action, activity, performance, rite)

• ब्रह्माण्डकालिका (brahmāṇḍakālikā) - the Kālikā (power of time) of the universe (brahmāṇḍa)

Words meanings and morphology

स्पन्दान् (spandān) - pulsations, vibrations, movements

(noun)

Accusative, masculine, plural of spanda

spanda - vibration, throbbing, movement, pulsation

Root: spand (class 1)

करोति (karoti) - does, makes, creates

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, present (laṭ) of kṛ

Root: kṛ (class 8)

धत्ते (dhatte) - holds, carries, places, assumes

(verb)

3rd person , singular, middle, present (laṭ) of dhā

Root: dhā (class 3)

अन्तः (antaḥ) - within, inside, internal

(indeclinable)

कल्पितावयवात्मिका (kalpitāvayavātmikā) - whose nature consists of imagined parts, having imagined parts as its self (ātman)

(adjective)

Nominative, feminine, singular of kalpitāvayavātmikā

kalpitāvayavātmikā - composed of imagined parts as its essential nature

Compound type : bahuvrīhi (kalpita+avayava+ātmikā)

• kalpita – imagined, fashioned, created, fabricated
  adjective
  Past Passive Participle
  Root: kḷp (class 1)
• avayava – part, limb, constituent, member
  noun (masculine)
• ātmikā – whose nature is, consisting of, pertaining to the self (ātman)
  adjective (feminine)
  Feminine suffix from 'ātman' (self).

Note: Describes Kālī.

काली (kālī) - Kālī (the goddess); black; time

(proper noun)

Nominative, feminine, singular of kālī

kālī - Kālī (a Hindu goddess, goddess of time and change); black, dark blue

कमलिनी (kamalinī) - a lotus-grove, metaphor for beauty or abundance (lotus pond, collection of lotuses; a lotus-like woman)

(noun)

Nominative, feminine, singular of kamalinī

kamalinī - a lotus pond, a collection of lotuses; a woman resembling a lotus

काली (kālī) - Kālī (the goddess); black; time

(proper noun)

Nominative, feminine, singular of kālī

kālī - Kālī (a Hindu goddess, goddess of time and change); black, dark blue

क्रिया (kriyā) - cosmic action, creative activity (action, activity, performance, rite)

(noun)

Nominative, feminine, singular of kriyā

kriyā - action, activity, performance, rite, work

Root: kṛ (class 8)

ब्रह्माण्डकालिका (brahmāṇḍakālikā) - the Kālikā (power of time) of the universe (brahmāṇḍa)

(noun)

Nominative, feminine, singular of brahmāṇḍakālikā

brahmāṇḍakālikā - the Kālikā (power of time) of the universe

Compound type : tatpuruṣa (brahmāṇḍa+kālikā)

• brahmāṇḍa – cosmic egg, universe
  noun (neuter)
• kālikā – a specific form of Kāli, associated with time; pertaining to time
  noun (feminine)

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