Shloka 11

ब्रह्मनारायणस्तवः — शिवस्य प्रभवत्व-प्रतिपादनम्

Devanagari script

धर्मवृक्षाय धर्माय स्थितीनां प्रभवे नमः प्रभवे च परार्धस्य परस्य प्रभवे नमः

Transliteration

dharmavṛkṣāya dharmāya sthitīnāṃ prabhave namaḥ prabhave ca parārdhasya parasya prabhave namaḥ

Translation

Salutations to Him who is the Tree of Dharma, Dharma itself, and the Source of all established orders. Salutations to the Origin of the highest realm, and again salutations to that Supreme Origin beyond all.

Word by Word

• धर्मवृक्षाय: to the Tree of Dharma (the support and giver of righteousness)

• धर्माय: to Dharma itself (cosmic law)

• स्थितीनाम्: of the established states/orders (sustaining conditions)

• प्रभवे: to the source, origin, lordly cause

• नमः: salutation

• च: and

• परार्धस्य: of the highest half/uppermost realm (supreme transcendental domain)

• परस्य: of the Supreme (beyond)

• प्रभवे: to the origin/source

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a stuti within the Linga Purana’s Shaiva framework)