Shloka 53

Pāśupata-vrata Māhātmya: Dvādaśa-Liṅga Mahāvrata, Month-wise Dravya, and Pūjā-krama

Devanagari script

देवत्वं वा पितृत्वं वा देवराजत्वमेव च गाणपत्यपदं वापि सक्तो ऽपि लभते नरः

Transliteration

devatvaṃ vā pitṛtvaṃ vā devarājatvameva ca gāṇapatyapadaṃ vāpi sakto 'pi labhate naraḥ

Translation

শিৱত দৃঢ় আসক্তি থকা মানুহে নিজৰ আসক্তি অনুসাৰে দেবত্ব, পিতৃপদ, দেৱৰাজত্ব, অথবা শিৱগণৰ মাজত গাণপত্য পদো লাভ কৰে।

Word by Word

• देवत्वम्: divinity, godhood

• वा: or

• पितृत्वम्: the status of a Pitṛ (ancestral being)

• देवराजत्वम्: lordship as Devarāja (Indra-like sovereignty)

• एव: indeed

• च: and

• गाणपत्यपदम्: the post/state of being among the Gaṇas (Śiva’s attendants)

• वा अपि: or even

• सक्तः: attached, devoted, intent

• अपि: even

• लभते: attains, obtains

• नरः: a man, human being

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the phala of Śiva-bhakti to the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya)