Aditya Hrudayam Series Week 16
Shloka Taatparyam Shloka 11
Before going into the blog, please check out this week’s featured photo. It is very special and unique. It portrays Lord Surya from an angle as close as has been possible till date (about 16.9M miles from the Sun’s surface). It was recently taken by the Parker Solar Probe launched by NASA. How is that for celebrating Sun who personifies Veda and Vigyaana?
More details on this picture to follow in a separate post and let us move on to today’s shloka.
हरिदश्वः सहस्रार्चिः सप्तसप्तिर्मरीचिमान्।
तिमिरोन्मथनः शम्भुस्त्वष्टा मार्ताण्ड अंशुमान्॥ 11 ॥
Haridaśvaḥ sahasrārciḥ saptasaptirmarīcimān
Timironmathanaḥ śambhustvaṣṭā mārtāṇḍa aṃśumān॥ 11 ॥
Meaning:
He has fallow colored horses ( NOT black,white etc as depicted in most illustrations)
He has a thousand rays.
He is radiant.
He has seven horses and emits (white light that splits into) seven colors. (see attached photo)
He is the dispeller of darkness (also the internal ignorance). He is the progenitor who grants happiness to all (by nourishing their lives with his light and warmth).
He is the one who sculpts this world.
He is the huge bird in the sky that beams light (of knowledge and wisdom)
हरिदश्वः हरिद+ अश्वः – horses that are fallow(pale brown) colored. Fallow is the color of sandy soil
सहस्रार्चिः – one who has a thousand rays (infinite)
सप्तसप्तिर – one who has seven of the same kind ( seven horses, seven rays)
र्मरीचिमान् – radiant
तिमिरोन – darkness
मथनः – one who shakes off, destroys
शम्भु – progenitor, one who grants happiness
स्त्वष्टा – one who gives shape (in mother’s womb), sculpts.
मार्ताण्ड – Bird in sky that which emits light
अंशुमान् – sunbeam, full of light rays
