Shloka 85

ब्रह्मनारायणस्तवः — शिवस्य प्रभवत्व-प्रतिपादनम्

Devanagari script

देवानाम् अक्षयः कोशस् त्वया यज्ञः प्रकल्पितः हव्यं तवेदं वहति वेदोक्तं हव्यवाहनः प्रीते त्वयि महादेव वयं प्रीता भवामहे

Transliteration

devānām akṣayaḥ kośas tvayā yajñaḥ prakalpitaḥ havyaṃ tavedaṃ vahati vedoktaṃ havyavāhanaḥ prīte tvayi mahādeva vayaṃ prītā bhavāmahe

Translation

You are the inexhaustible treasury of the gods; by You the sacrifice (yajña) is rightly established. Agni, the carrier of oblations (havyavāhana), conveys this offering to You exactly as the Veda enjoins. When You, O Mahādeva—Pati, the Lord—are pleased, we too, the devas, become fulfilled and blessed.

Word by Word

• देवानाम् (devānām): of the gods

• अक्षयः (akṣayaḥ): imperishable, inexhaustible

• कोशः (kośaḥ): treasury, storehouse

• त्वया (tvayā): by You

• यज्ञः (yajñaḥ): sacrifice, Vedic rite

• प्रकल्पितः (prakalpitaḥ): duly arranged/ordained

• हव्यं (havyaṁ): oblation offered into fire

• तव (tava): for You/unto You

• इदं (idaṁ): this

• वहति (vahati): carries, conveys

• वेदोक्तं (vedoktaṁ): as stated/enjoined by the Veda

• हव्यवाहनः (havyavāhanaḥ): Agni, the carrier of oblations

• प्रीते (prīte): when pleased

• त्वयि (tvayi): in You/with You

• महादेव (mahādeva): O Great God (Shiva)

• वयं (vayaṁ): we

• प्रीताः (prītāḥ): pleased, gratified

• भवामहे (bhavāmahe): we become/are.

Speaker

Devas (within Suta’s narration to the sages of Naimisharanya)