Shloka 36

Upamanyu’s Tapas, Shiva’s Indra-Form Test, and the Bestowal of Kshiroda and Gaṇapatya

Devanagari script

मद्भक्तो भव विप्रर्षे मामेवार्चय सर्वदा ददामि सर्वं भद्रं ते त्यज रुद्रं च निर्गुणम्

Transliteration

madbhakto bhava viprarṣe māmevārcaya sarvadā dadāmi sarvaṃ bhadraṃ te tyaja rudraṃ ca nirguṇam

Translation

হে বিপ্ৰশ্ৰেষ্ঠ! মোৰ ভক্ত হোৱা; সদায় কেৱল মোকেই পূজা কৰা। মই তোমাক সকলো মঙ্গল দিম। ৰুদ্ৰক কেৱল নিৰ্গুণ বুলি ধাৰণা ত্যাগ কৰা।

Word by Word

• मत्-भक्तः (mad-bhaktaḥ): My devotee

• भव (bhava): become

• विप्रर्षे (viprarṣe): O best among Brahmins

• माम् एव (mām eva): Me alone

• अर्चय (arcaya): worship

• सर्वदा (sarvadā): always

• ददामि (dadāmi): I give/I grant

• सर्वम् (sarvam): all

• भद्रम् (bhadram): auspicious good, welfare

• ते (te): to you/for you

• त्यज (tyaja): abandon, renounce

• रुद्रम् (rudram): Rudra (Shiva)

• च (ca): and

• निर्गुणम् (nirguṇam): as nirguṇa/without qualities (as a limiting conception)

Speaker

Shiva (Rudra), within Suta’s narration to the sages of Naimisharanya