Shloka 7

Bhūtavana–Kailāsa–Mandākinī–Rudrapurī: Śiva’s Jeweled Abodes and Perpetual Worship

Devanagari script

रम्यं ह्यविरलच्छायं दशयोजनमण्डलम् तत्र भूतवनं नाम नानाभूतगणालयम्

Transliteration

ramyaṃ hyaviralacchāyaṃ daśayojanamaṇḍalam tatra bhūtavanaṃ nāma nānābhūtagaṇālayam

Translation

সেই মনোৰম অঞ্চল অবিৰল ছাঁয়াৰে ঘন, দহ যোজন পৰিধিৰ মণ্ডলত বিস্তৃত আছিল। তাত ‘ভূতবন’ নামৰ এখন বন আছিল—নানাবিধ ভূত-গণৰ আলয়, যিসকল পতি প্ৰভুৰ অধীনত তেওঁৰ গণসেৱক।

Word by Word

• रम्यम्: delightful, beautiful

• हि: indeed

• अविरल-च्छायम्: with continuous/unbroken shade

• दश-योजन-मण्डलम्: a region/circuit of ten yojanas

• तत्र: there

• भूतवनम्: the forest named Bhūtavana

• नाम: by name

• नाना: various, many kinds of

• भूत: beings/spirits/elemental creatures

• गण-आलयम्: abode of hosts (gaṇas), a residence of groups

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)