Word meanings
- divi
- in the sky
- sūrya
- suns
- sahasrasya
- thousand
- bhavet
- were
- yugapat
- simultaneously
- utthitā
- rising
- yadi
- if
- bhāḥ
- splendor
- sadṛśī
- like
- sā
- that
- syāt
- would be
- bhāsaḥ
- splendor
- tasya
- of them
- mahā-ātmanaḥ
- the great personality
Translations
If the splendour of a thousand suns were to blaze out simultaneously in the sky, that would be the splendour of that mighty being.
Could a thousand suns blaze forth together, it would be but a faint reflection of the radiance of the Lord God.
Should the effulgence of a thousand suns blaze forth simultaneously in the sky, that might be akin to the radiance of that exalted One.
अगर आकाशमें एक साथ हजारों सूर्य उदित हो जायँ, तो भी उन सबका प्रकाश मिलकर उस महात्मा-(विराट् रूप परमात्मा-) के प्रकाशके समान शायद ही हो।Commentary
Divi here means in the Antariksha or the sky. Mahatma here refers to the great Soul or the mighty Being, the Cosmic Form.