Shloka 28

Vighneshvara-Prashna and Deva-Krita Shiva-Stava

Adhyaya 104

Devanagari script

अथ शृणु भगवन् स्तवच्छलेन कथितमजेन्द्रमुखैः सुरासुरेशैः /* मखमदनयमाग्निदक्षयज्ञक्षपणविचित्रविचेष्टितं क्षमस्व

Transliteration

atha śṛṇu bhagavan stavacchalena kathitamajendramukhaiḥ surāsureśaiḥ /* makhamadanayamāgnidakṣayajñakṣapaṇavicitraviceṣṭitaṃ kṣamasva

Translation

এতিয়া, হে ভগৱান! ব্ৰহ্মা আৰু দেৱ‑অসুৰেশসকলে স্তৱৰ ছলে যি কৈছে, সেয়া শুনক। মখৰ দমন, মদনৰ গৰ্বভংগ, যম‑অগ্নিৰ নিবাৰণ আৰু দক্ষযজ্ঞৰ আশ্চৰ্য ধ্বংস—এই বিচিত্ৰ লীলাক ক্ষমা কৰক।

Word by Word

• अथ: now

• शृणु: listen

• भगवन्: O Lord

• स्तवच्छलेन: under the pretext/guise of praise

• कथितम्: spoken, narrated

• अजेन्द्रमुखैः: by Brahmā and foremost ones (led by Aja/Brahmā)

• सुरासुरेशैः: by the lords of gods and demons

• मख: Makha (personified sacrifice/ritual)

• मदन: Madana (Kāma, desire)

• यम: Yama (lord of death)

• अग्नि: Agni (fire-god)

• दक्षयज्ञ: Dakṣa’s sacrifice

• क्षपण: destruction, annihilation

• विचित्र: wondrous, extraordinary

• विचेष्टितम्: deeds, divine actions

• क्षमस्व: forgive (please pardon).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the internal supplication/praise addressed to Shiva)