Shloka 80

देवादिसृष्टिकथनम् (वसिष्ठशोकः, पराशरजन्म, एकलिङ्गपूजा, रुद्रदर्शनम्)

Devanagari script

द्रष्टुमिच्छामि भगवन् पितरं भ्रातृभिः सह एवं विज्ञापयांल्लिङ्गं प्रणिपत्य मुहुर्मुहुः

Transliteration

draṣṭumicchāmi bhagavan pitaraṃ bhrātṛbhiḥ saha evaṃ vijñāpayāṃlliṅgaṃ praṇipatya muhurmuhuḥ

Translation

„O seliger Herr, ich wünsche, meinen Vater zusammen mit meinen Brüdern zu schauen.“ So verneigte er sich immer wieder vor dem Liṅga und brachte seine innige Bitte dar—auf der Suche nach Pati, dem Herrn, dessen Gnade das pāśa, das Band, das den paśu (die Seele) fesselt, löst.

Word by Word

• द्रष्टुम्: to see, to behold

• इच्छामि: I desire

• भगवन्: O Lord, O Blessed One

• पितरम्: father

• भ्रातृभिः: with brothers

• सह: together with

• एवम्: thus

• विज्ञापयाम्: I submit, I petition

• लिङ्गम्: the (Shiva-)Linga, the sign of Pati

• प्रणिपत्य: having bowed down, prostrating

• मुहुः मुहुः: again and again, repeatedly

Speaker

Internal narrator/character addressing Bhagavan through Linga-vandana (framed within Suta’s narration)