Shloka 2

Indra’s Account: Shilada’s Tapas and Shiva’s Manifestation as Nandi

Devanagari script

अथ तस्यैवमनिशं तत्परस्य द्विजस्य तु दिव्यं वर्षसहस्रं तु गतं क्षणमिवाद्भुतम्

Transliteration

atha tasyaivamaniśaṃ tatparasya dvijasya tu divyaṃ varṣasahasraṃ tu gataṃ kṣaṇamivādbhutam

Translation

Dann vergingen für jenen Dvija, der unablässig mit einspitziger Hingabe in Ihm versunken war, tausend göttliche Jahre — erstaunlicherweise — als wären sie nur ein einziger Augenblick.

Word by Word

• atha: then

• tasya: for him/of him

• evaṃ: thus/in this manner

• aniśam: unceasingly/without pause

• tat-parasya: of one wholly devoted/intent upon That (Shiva, the Pati)

• dvijasya: of the twice-born (brahmin/initiated one)

• tu: indeed

• divyam: divine/celestial

• varṣa-sahasram: a thousand years

• gataṃ: passed/elapsed

• kṣaṇam iva: like a moment

• adbhutam: wondrous/astonishing

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)