Shloka 25

ब्रह्मनारायणस्तवः — शिवस्य प्रभवत्व-प्रतिपादनम्

Devanagari script

बलाबलसमूहाय अक्षोभ्यक्षोभणाय च दीप्तशृङ्गैकशृङ्गाय वृषभाय ककुद्मिने

Transliteration

balābalasamūhāya akṣobhyakṣobhaṇāya ca dīptaśṛṅgaikaśṛṅgāya vṛṣabhāya kakudmine

Translation

Salutations to the Lord who is the totality of strength and weakness, who is Himself unshakable yet the One who can shake all; to the Bull-Lord with blazing horns—single-horned in supreme unity—who bears the lofty hump, the emblem of sovereign power.

Word by Word

• बलाबलसमूहाय: to the aggregate/source of strength and weakness

• अक्षोभ्य: to the unshakable (immutable Pati)

• अक्षोभणाय: to the shaker/agitator (who stirs the cosmos)

• च: and

• दीप्तशृङ्ग: having blazing horns

• एकशृङ्गाय: to the single-horned/one-pointed One (symbol of non-duality and focused power)

• वृषभाय: to the Bull (Dharma and Shiva’s emblem, Nandi-principle)

• ककुद्मिने: to the humped one (bearing the exalted hump

Speaker

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