Shloka 46

Varaha-Pradurbhava Context: Prahlada’s Bhakti, Narasimha’s Ugra-Form, and Shiva’s Sharabha Intervention

Devanagari script

नमो ह्रस्वाय दीर्घाय वामनाय नमोनमः नम उग्रत्रिशूलाय उग्राय च नमो नमः

Transliteration

namo hrasvāya dīrghāya vāmanāya namonamaḥ nama ugratriśūlāya ugrāya ca namo namaḥ

Translation

Immer wieder Verehrung dem Herrn, der zugleich ‘kurz’ (feinstofflich) und ‘lang’ (allgegenwärtig) ist, und Vāmana, dem göttlichen Zwerg, der das nötige Maß annimmt, um das Dharma zu stützen. Immer wieder Verehrung dem Grimmigen, der den furchtbaren Dreizack trägt; Rudra—Ugra, der die Fesseln (pāśa) der gebundenen Seele durchtrennt.

Word by Word

• नमः: salutation

• ह्रस्वाय: to the subtle/contracted One (minute form)

• दीर्घाय: to the vast/extended One (all-pervading form)

• वामनाय: to the dwarf-like measurer (Vāmana-form, assuming a small form by will)

• नमो नमः: salutations again and again

• उग्रत्रिशूलाय: to Him whose trident is fierce/terrible (the trident that destroys the threefold bondage)

• उग्राय: to the fierce Rudra

• च: and

Speaker

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