Shloka 2

Adhyaya 52: सोमाधारः, पुण्योदानदी, मेरुप्रदक्षिणा, जम्बूद्वीपनववर्षवर्णनम्

Devanagari script

प्राङ्मुखा दक्षिणास्यास्तु चोत्तरप्रभवाः शुभाः पश्चिमाग्राः पवित्राश् च प्रतिवर्षं प्रकीर्तिताः

Transliteration

prāṅmukhā dakṣiṇāsyāstu cottaraprabhavāḥ śubhāḥ paścimāgrāḥ pavitrāś ca prativarṣaṃ prakīrtitāḥ

Translation

الأنهارُ المتجهةُ إلى الشرق يُقال إن أثرها كأنها متجهةٌ إلى الجنوب؛ والتي تنبع من الشمال مباركة؛ والتي يكون طرفُها نحو الغرب مُطهِّرة—وهكذا يُعلَن ذلك عامًا بعد عام.

Word by Word

• प्राङ्मुखाः: east-facing

• दक्षिणास्याः: south-faced / having the south as the ‘mouth’ (ritual-facing aspect)

• तु: indeed

• च: and

• उत्तर-प्रभवाः: arising from the north / north-origin

• शुभाः: auspicious

• पश्चिम-अग्राः: having the front/tip toward the west

• पवित्राः: purifying, holy

• च: and

• प्रति-वर्षम्: every year, annually

• प्रकीर्तिताः: proclaimed, taught, traditionally recited

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating traditional ritual-directional classifications within the Linga Purana’s puja/vidhi discourse)