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Shloka 7

ब्रह्मनारायणस्तवः — शिवस्य प्रभवत्व-प्रतिपादनम्

नमो योगस्य प्रभवे सांख्यस्य प्रभवे नमः नमो ध्रुवनिबद्धानाम् ऋषीणां प्रभवे नमः

namo yogasya prabhave sāṃkhyasya prabhave namaḥ namo dhruvanibaddhānām ṛṣīṇāṃ prabhave namaḥ

Salutations to the Source of Yoga; salutations to the Source of Sāṃkhya. Salutations to the Source of the seers, steadfastly established in the eternal Dhruva—salutations to that Source again and again.

namo/namaḥsalutations
namo/namaḥ:
yogasyaof Yoga (discipline of union)
yogasya:
prabhaveto the Source/Origin/Manifesting Power
prabhave:
sāṃkhyasyaof Sāṃkhya (discriminative knowledge of tattvas)
sāṃkhyasya:
dhruvathe Fixed/Eternal principle
dhruva:
nibaddhānāmof those bound/firmly established (steadfastly fixed)
nibaddhānām:
ṛṣīṇāmof the seers/sages
ṛṣīṇām:
(punar) prabhaveto the very Source (Pati) from whom their realization arises
(punar) prabhave:

Suta Goswami (narrating the Linga Purana to the sages of Naimisharanya; verse functions as a devotional salutation within the narrative)