Shloka 41

Shivamurti–Pratishtha Phala: Shivalaya-Nirmana, Kshetra-Mahatmya, Tirtha-Snana, and Mandala-Vidhi

Devanagari script

वाराणस्यां मृतो जन्तुर् न जातु जन्तुतां व्रजेत् त्रिविष्टपे विमुक्ते च केदारे संगमेश्वरे

Transliteration

vārāṇasyāṃ mṛto jantur na jātu jantutāṃ vrajet triviṣṭape vimukte ca kedāre saṃgameśvare

Translation

বাৰাণসীত মৃত্যুবৰণ কৰা জীৱ কেতিয়াও পুনৰ জন্তুতা (দেহধাৰণ)লৈ নাযায়। তদ্ৰূপ ত্ৰিবিষ্টপ, বিমুক্ত, কেদাৰ আৰু সংগমেশ্বৰত প্ৰাণত্যাগ কৰিলে পুনৰ্জন্মৰ পাশৰ পৰা মুক্তি হয়।

Word by Word

• वाराणस्याम्: in Vārāṇasī (Kāśī)

• मृतः: having died

• जन्तुः: an embodied being, bound soul (paśu)

• न: not

• जातु: ever

• जन्तुताम्: the state of being a creature/embodied existence

• व्रजेत्: would go/attain

• त्रिविष्टपे: in Triviṣṭapa (a heavenly/holy realm or sacred kṣetra so named)

• विमुक्ते: in Vimukta (the Liberating kṣetra, identified with Kāśī-tradition)

• च: and

• केदारे: in Kedāra (Kedārakṣetra)

• संगमेश्वरे: at Saṅgameśvara (Lord of the confluence

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Linga Purana teachings to the sages of Naimisharanya)