Shloka 28

Varaha-Pradurbhava Context: Prahlada’s Bhakti, Narasimha’s Ugra-Form, and Shiva’s Sharabha Intervention

Devanagari script

भवानेव जगत्सर्वं प्रलापेन किमीश्वर मायया बहुधा संस्थम् अद्वितीयमयं प्रभो

Transliteration

bhavāneva jagatsarvaṃ pralāpena kimīśvara māyayā bahudhā saṃstham advitīyamayaṃ prabho

Translation

হে ঈশ্বৰ! এই সমগ্ৰ জগত আপুনিেই; তেন্তে অধিক বাক্যবিস্তাৰৰ কি প্ৰয়োজন? আপোনাৰ মায়াৰে আপুনি বহু ৰূপে স্থিত যেন লাগে, কিন্তু তত্ত্বতঃ আপুনি অদ্বিতীয়, হে প্ৰভু।

Word by Word

• भवान् (bhavān): You

• एव (eva): alone/indeed

• जगत् (jagat): universe

• सर्वम् (sarvam): all

• प्रलापेन (pralāpena): by talk/idle speech/disputation

• किम् (kim): what (use/need)?

• ईश्वर (īśvara): O Lord

• मायया (māyayā): by Māyā (divine concealing/projecting power)

• बहुधा (bahudhā): in many ways/manifoldly

• संस्थम् (saṁstham): situated/established/appearing as

• अद्वितीयमयम् (advitīya-mayam): consisting of non-duality, without a second

• प्रभो (prabho): O Master/Lord

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a devotee’s praise within the Purva-Bhaga dialogue framework)