Shloka 8

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

Devanagari script

वायुः सोमस्तथेशानः पावको मम यः समः मामेवार्चय भक्त्या च स्वल्पं नारायणं सदा

Transliteration

vāyuḥ somastatheśānaḥ pāvako mama yaḥ samaḥ māmevārcaya bhaktyā ca svalpaṃ nārāyaṇaṃ sadā

Translation

বায়ু, সোম, ঈশান আৰু পাবক—যি কোনোবাই মোৰ সমান বুলি গণ্য—(এইটো জান) ভক্তিৰে কেৱল মোকেই আৰ্চনা কৰা; নাৰায়ণকো সদায় পূজা কৰা, কিন্তু ইয়াত গৌণভাৱে।

Word by Word

• वायुः: Vāyu (Wind-deity)

• सोमः: Soma (Moon/nectar-deity)

• तथा: and likewise

• ईशानः: Īśāna (a form/aspect of Śiva, lordly ruler)

• पावकः: Pāvaka/Agni (Fire)

• मम: of Me

• यः: whoever/which

• समः: equal, of the same nature

• माम् एव: Me alone

• अर्चय: worship

• भक्त्या: with devotion (bhakti)

• च: and

• स्वल्पम्: lesser/secondary, comparatively small

• नारायणम्: Nārāyaṇa (Viṣṇu)

• सदा: always

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a Shaiva teaching embedded in the Purana’s dialogue tradition)