Shloka 26

Aghora-Mantra Japa: Graded Expiations, Pañcagavya Purification, and Homa for Mahāpātaka-Nivṛtti

Devanagari script

अहोरात्रोषितः स्नातः पिबेत्कूर्चं शिवाग्रतः ब्राह्मं ब्रह्मजपं कुर्याद् आचम्य च यथाविधि

Transliteration

ahorātroṣitaḥ snātaḥ pibetkūrcaṃ śivāgrataḥ brāhmaṃ brahmajapaṃ kuryād ācamya ca yathāvidhi

Translation

অহোৰাত্ৰ নিয়ম পালন কৰি স্নান কৰি, শিৱসন্নিধানত কূৰ্চ-জল পান কৰিব। তাৰ পিছত বিধিমতে আচমন কৰি ব্ৰাহ্ম কৰ্ম—ব্ৰহ্মমন্ত্ৰ জপ—কৰিব, যাতে পাশবদ্ধ পশু (জীৱ) শুদ্ধ হৈ পতি ভগৱান শিৱক সমীপ কৰিব পাৰে।

Word by Word

• अहोरात्र-उषितः: having stayed/kept vigil for a full day and night (observing restraint)

• स्नातः: having bathed

• पिबेत्: should drink/sip

• कूर्चम्: kūrca (purificatory/ritual water associated with darbha/kūrca, a sanctifying sip)

• शिव-अग्रतः: in front of Śiva / in Śiva’s presence

• ब्राह्मम्: pertaining to Brahman / the Brāhma rite

• ब्रह्म-जपम्: repetition (japa) of the Brahman-mantra (Vedic sacred formula)

• कुर्यात्: should do

• आचम्य: having sipped water ritually (ācamana)

• च: and

• यथा-विधि: according to rule/proper procedure.

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Shiva-puja procedure to the sages of Naimisharanya)