उपनिषद् · Gopāla-tāpanī Pūrva 27
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देवनागरी
तदुहोवाच ब्राह्मणः
असावनवरतं मे ध्यातः स्तुतः
परार्धान्ते सोऽबुध्यत
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
taduhovāca brāhmaṇaḥ
asāvanavarataṁ me dhyātaḥ stutaḥ
parārdhānte so’budhyata
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
तत् उ ह उवाच ब्राह्मणःtat u ha uvāca brāhmaṇaḥand Brahmā said; then the creator answered
असौasauHe; that one
अनवरतम्anavaratamunceasingly; without a break
मे ध्यातःme dhyātaḥwas contemplated by me; was called to mind by me
स्तुतःstutaḥwas praised; was glorified
परार्धान्तेparārdhānteat the end of a parārdha; when half my span had run out
सः अबुध्यतsaḥ abudhyataHe awoke; He turned His attention
अनुवाद
And Brahmā answered: He was unceasingly contemplated and praised by me, and at the end of a parārdha He awoke to me.
संस्करण
46766fbc0a5f · प्रकाशित 28 जुल॰ 2026, 2:22:17 pm UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The creator's account of himself begins, and it speaks of a stretch of time hard to imagine. A parārdha is half of Brahmā's life, reckoned in hundreds of his years, where one of his days equals a thousand ages.
The point of this measure is not arithmetic. It says: so long did the unceasing contemplation last before an answer followed. One who asks for a quick fruit should hear this as a sober warning; one who is weary of waiting, as a consolation: the creator waited too.
The verb chosen is an unusual one: abudhyata, "awoke", "turned His attention". Not "took pity" and not "came": He, as it were, turned toward the one calling. We saw the same image in the Śvetāśvatara, where God "stands facing men".
And two acts are named together: dhyāta and stuta — "contemplated" and "praised". Silent recollection and spoken praise go side by side; neither alone is encouraged in this book.
Note further that the narrator is Brahmā, that is, the one whom other texts call the creator of the world. Here he appears not as creator but as an ascetic who himself waited for mercy.