Shloka 45

कल्मषापहर-कीर्तनम् / Kīrtana for the Removal of Impurity

Devanagari script

अल्पप्रज्ञो विरूपाक्ष कथं भवति मानव: । एतन्मे संशयं छिन्धि सर्वधर्मविदां वर,विरूपाक्ष! मनुष्य मन्दबुद्धि कैसे होता है? सम्पूर्ण धर्मज्ञोंमें श्रेष्ठ महादेव! आप मेरे इस संदेहका निवारण कीजिये

Transliteration

alpaprajño virūpākṣa kathaṁ bhavati mānavaḥ | etan me saṁśayaṁ chindhi sarvadharmavidāṁ vara ||

Translation

„O Virūpākṣa, wie wird ein Mensch von geringem Verständnis? O Bester unter allen, die das Dharma kennen, zerschneide meinen Zweifel und mache es klar.“

Word by Word

अल्पप्रज्ञःof little understanding

विरूपाक्षO Virūpākṣa (Śiva)

कथम्how

भवतिbecomes

मानवःa man, human

एतत्this

मेmy

संशयम्doubt

छिन्धिcut off, remove

सर्वधर्मविदाम्of all knowers of dharma

वरO best

विरूपाक्षO Virūpākṣa

Speaker

श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Virūpākṣa (Śiva/Mahādeva)

mānava (human being)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse frames ignorance as a moral-spiritual problem worth investigating: one should ask a true knower of dharma to remove doubt, because clarity of understanding is essential for right conduct.

What is happening in the narrative?

A questioner addresses Śiva (Virūpākṣa), acknowledging him as the foremost knower of dharma, and asks him to explain the causes by which a human becomes ‘alpaprajña’ (of little discernment), requesting a direct resolution of doubt.