Shloka 46

अविमुक्तक्षेत्रमाहात्म्य — काशी-वाराणसी में मोक्ष, लिङ्ग-तीर्थ-मानचित्र, और उपासना-विधि

Devanagari script

मम क्षेत्रमिदं तस्माद् अविमुक्तमिति स्मृतम् नैमिषे च कुरुक्षेत्रे गङ्गाद्वारे च पुष्करे

Transliteration

mama kṣetramidaṃ tasmād avimuktamiti smṛtam naimiṣe ca kurukṣetre gaṅgādvāre ca puṣkare

Translation

„Dies ist Mein kṣetra; darum wird es Avimukta genannt, der Ort, den Ich niemals verlasse. Ebenso soll man in Naimiṣa, in Kurukṣetra, am Gaṅgādvāra und in Puṣkara Meine Gegenwart und Heiligkeit erkennen.“

Word by Word

• mama: My

• kṣetram: sacred field/holy region

• idam: this

• tasmāt: therefore

• avimuktam: (that which is) never forsaken/never abandoned (by Shiva)

• iti: thus

• smṛtam: remembered/known in tradition

• naimiṣe: in Naimiṣa (Naimiṣāraṇya)

• ca: and

• kurukṣetre: in Kurukṣetra

• gaṅgādvāre: at Gaṅgā-dvāra (Haridwar

• ca: and

• puṣkare: in Puṣkara (sacred tīrtha).

Speaker

Shiva (within Suta’s narration to the sages of Naimisharanya)