Shloka 62

ब्रह्मनारायणस्तवः — शिवस्य प्रभवत्व-प्रतिपादनम्

Devanagari script

नमस्ते प्राणपालाय मुण्डमालाधराय च प्रहीणशोकैर्विविधैर् भूतैः परिवृताय च

Transliteration

namaste prāṇapālāya muṇḍamālādharāya ca prahīṇaśokairvividhair bhūtaiḥ parivṛtāya ca

Translation

السجود لكَ، يا حامي أنفاس الحياة كلّها؛ السجود لكَ، يا حامل إكليل الجماجم؛ السجود لكَ، يا من تُحيط به جموعٌ شتّى من البهوتا (Bhūta)—كائناتٌ نبذت الحزن—تقوم بخدمتك بوصفك ربَّها.

Word by Word

• नमस्ते: salutations to You

• प्राणपालाय: to the guardian of prāṇa (life-breath)

• मुण्डमालाधराय: to the wearer of a garland of skulls

• च: and

• प्रहीण-शोकैः: by those who have abandoned grief

• विविधैः: various, manifold

• भूतैः: by bhūtas (elemental/attendant beings)

• परिवृताय: to the One who is encircled/surrounded

• च: and

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a hymn addressed to Shiva within the chapter’s dialogue context)