Shloka 11

ब्रह्मनारायणस्तवः — शिवस्य प्रभवत्व-प्रतिपादनम्

Devanagari script

धर्मवृक्षाय धर्माय स्थितीनां प्रभवे नमः प्रभवे च परार्धस्य परस्य प्रभवे नमः

Transliteration

dharmavṛkṣāya dharmāya sthitīnāṃ prabhave namaḥ prabhave ca parārdhasya parasya prabhave namaḥ

Translation

ধর্মবৃক্ষস্বরূপ, স্বয়ং ধর্ম, এবং সকল প্রতিষ্ঠিত অবস্থার উৎসকে নমস্কার। পরার্ধ-লোকের উৎসকে নমস্কার, এবং পরম পরের সেই সর্বোচ্চ উৎসকে নমস্কার॥

Word by Word

• धर्मवृक्षाय: to the Tree of Dharma (the support and giver of righteousness)

• धर्माय: to Dharma itself (cosmic law)

• स्थितीनाम्: of the established states/orders (sustaining conditions)

• प्रभवे: to the source, origin, lordly cause

• नमः: salutation

• च: and

• परार्धस्य: of the highest half/uppermost realm (supreme transcendental domain)

• परस्य: of the Supreme (beyond)

• प्रभवे: to the origin/source

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a stuti within the Linga Purana’s Shaiva framework)