Shloka 65

ब्रह्मनारायणस्तवः — शिवस्य प्रभवत्व-प्रतिपादनम्

Devanagari script

कटकटाय तिग्माय अप्रियाय प्रियाय च विभीषणाय भीष्माय भगप्रमथनाय च

Transliteration

kaṭakaṭāya tigmāya apriyāya priyāya ca vibhīṣaṇāya bhīṣmāya bhagapramathanāya ca

Translation

Salutations to Him who grinds and crushes all bondage, to the keen and piercing One; to Him who is beyond both the pleasant and the unpleasant; to the awe-inspiring One, to the Terrible One; and to Him who shatters Bhaga, overthrowing the pride of the gods and destroying the forces that obstruct liberation.

Word by Word

• कटकटाय: to the crushing/gnashing One (who pulverizes obstacles)

• तिग्माय: to the sharp, keen, blazing One

• अप्रियाय: to the One beyond what is deemed unpleasant (not conditioned by aversion)

• प्रियाय: to the One beyond what is deemed pleasant (not conditioned by attachment)

• च: and

• विभीषणाय: to the awe-inspiring One (who causes trembling in evil)

• भीष्माय: to the fearsome/terrible One (who terrifies adharma)

• भगप्रमथनाय: to the crusher of Bhaga (the deity Bhaga / the breaker of fortune-pride and impediments)

• च: and

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a sacred litany transmitted in the Linga Purana)