Shloka 175

Adhyaya 72 — Puradāha: Rudra’s Cosmic Chariot, Pāśupata-Vrata, and Brahmā’s Shiva-Stuti

Devanagari script

सामर्थ्यं च सदा मह्यं भवन्तं वोढुमीश्वरम् सर्वज्ञत्वं च वरद सर्वगत्वं च शङ्कर

Transliteration

sāmarthyaṃ ca sadā mahyaṃ bhavantaṃ voḍhumīśvaram sarvajñatvaṃ ca varada sarvagatvaṃ ca śaṅkara

Translation

هبْ لي دائمًا القدرة على حملك والقيام بحقّك—يا ربّ؛ وهبْ لي علمَ الكلّ، يا واهبَ النِّعَم، وهبْ لي الشمولَ في كلّ مكان، يا شانكرا.

Word by Word

• सामर्थ्यम्: capacity, spiritual power

• च: and

• सदा: always

• मह्यम्: to me

• भवन्तम्: You (honorific)

• वोढुम्: to bear, to uphold, to sustain

• ईश्वरम्: the Lord

• सर्वज्ञत्वम्: omniscience

• च: and

• वरद: giver of boons

• सर्वगत्वम्: all-pervasiveness, omnipresence

• च: and

• शङ्कर: Śaṅkara (Shiva, beneficent one)

Speaker

Suta (narrating an internal prayer/hymnic petition addressed to Shiva)