Shloka 47

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

Devanagari script

भीमाय भीमरूपाय भीमकर्मरताय ते अग्रेवधाय वै भूत्वा नमो दूरेवधाय च

Transliteration

bhīmāya bhīmarūpāya bhīmakarmaratāya te agrevadhāya vai bhūtvā namo dūrevadhāya ca

Translation

হে ভীম! ভীমৰূপ, ভীমকৰ্মত ৰত আপোনালৈ নমস্কাৰ। আগত থাকি সংহাৰ কৰা আপোনালৈ নমস্কাৰ; দূৰৰ পৰাো বধ কৰা আপোনালৈও প্ৰণাম।

Word by Word

• भीमाय: to the Terrible One

• भीमरूपाय: to Him of terrible/fearsome form

• भीमकर्मरताय: to Him intent upon fearsome acts (for protection and destruction of evil)

• ते: to You

• अग्रेवधाय: to the slayer in front/first slayer, the one who destroys foremost

• वै: indeed

• भूत्वा: having become/assuming (that role)

• नमः: salutation

• दूरेवधाय: to the slayer from afar, who destroys at a distance

• च: and

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a Shaiva stotra/namaskara within the Linga Purana discourse)