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Shloka 1

Ṣoḍaśāvaraṇa-cakre Rudrāṇāṃ Nāma-sthāna-nirdeśa

Rudras in the Sixteen-Enclosure Chakra

Devanagari script

इति श्रीब्रह्माण्डमहापुराणे उत्तरभागे हयग्रीवागस्त्यसंवादे ललितोपाख्याने पुष्परागप्रकारादिभुक्ताकरान्तसप्तकक्षान्तरकथनं नाम त्रयस्त्रिंशो ऽध्यायः अगस्त्य उवाच षोडशावरणं चक्रं किं तद्रुद्राधिदैवतम् / तत्र स्थिताश्च रुद्राः के केन नाम्ना प्रकीर्तिताः

Transliteration

iti śrībrahmāṇḍamahāpurāṇe uttarabhāge hayagrīvāgastyasaṃvāde lalitopākhyāne puṣparāgaprakārādibhuktākarāntasaptakakṣāntarakathanaṃ nāma trayastriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ agastya uvāca ṣoḍaśāvaraṇaṃ cakraṃ kiṃ tadrudrādhidaivatam / tatra sthitāśca rudrāḥ ke kena nāmnā prakīrtitāḥ

Translation

Thus, in the Śrī Brahmāṇḍa Mahāpurāṇa, in the Uttara section, in the dialogue of Hayagrīva and Agastya, within the Lalitā narrative, the thirty-third chapter. Agastya said: “What is that cakra with sixteen enclosures, whose presiding deity is Rudra? And which Rudras abide there, and by what names are they proclaimed?”

Word by Word

इतिthus

श्रीब्रह्माण्डमहापुराणेin the Śrī Brahmāṇḍa Mahāpurāṇa

उत्तरभागेin the latter section

हयग्रीवागस्त्यसंवादेin the dialogue of Hayagrīva and Agastya

ललितोपाख्यानेin the Lalitā-upākhyāna

पुष्परागप्रकारादिभुक्ताकरान्तसप्तकक्षान्तरकथनम्the section titled ‘the narration of the inner seven enclosures ending with Bhuktā… beginning with Puṣparāga-types’

नामnamed

त्रयस्त्रिंशःthirty-third

अध्यायःchapter

अगस्त्यःAgastya

उवाचsaid

षोडशावरणम्having sixteen enclosures

चक्रम्cakra (wheel/diagram)

किम्what?

तत्that

रुद्राधिदैवतम्the presiding deity as Rudra

तत्रthere

स्थिताःsituated

चand

रुद्राःRudras

केwhich (ones)?

केनby what

नाम्नाby name

प्रकीर्तिताःare proclaimed