Shloka 25

ब्रह्मनारायणस्तवः — शिवस्य प्रभवत्व-प्रतिपादनम्

Devanagari script

बलाबलसमूहाय अक्षोभ्यक्षोभणाय च दीप्तशृङ्गैकशृङ्गाय वृषभाय ककुद्मिने

Transliteration

balābalasamūhāya akṣobhyakṣobhaṇāya ca dīptaśṛṅgaikaśṛṅgāya vṛṣabhāya kakudmine

Translation

বল ও অবলের সমগ্র সমষ্টিস্বরূপ, নিজে অচঞ্চল হয়েও সকলকে চঞ্চলকারী প্রভুকে নমঃ। দীপ্ত শৃঙ্গবিশিষ্ট, পরম একত্বে একশৃঙ্গ, ককুদ্মান বৃষভ-স্বামীকে নমঃ।

Word by Word

• बलाबलसमूहाय: to the aggregate/source of strength and weakness

• अक्षोभ्य: to the unshakable (immutable Pati)

• अक्षोभणाय: to the shaker/agitator (who stirs the cosmos)

• च: and

• दीप्तशृङ्ग: having blazing horns

• एकशृङ्गाय: to the single-horned/one-pointed One (symbol of non-duality and focused power)

• वृषभाय: to the Bull (Dharma and Shiva’s emblem, Nandi-principle)

• ककुद्मिने: to the humped one (bearing the exalted hump

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a traditional Shiva-stuti within the Linga Purana discourse)