Shloka 80

देवादिसृष्टिकथनम् (वसिष्ठशोकः, पराशरजन्म, एकलिङ्गपूजा, रुद्रदर्शनम्)

Devanagari script

द्रष्टुमिच्छामि भगवन् पितरं भ्रातृभिः सह एवं विज्ञापयांल्लिङ्गं प्रणिपत्य मुहुर्मुहुः

Transliteration

draṣṭumicchāmi bhagavan pitaraṃ bhrātṛbhiḥ saha evaṃ vijñāpayāṃlliṅgaṃ praṇipatya muhurmuhuḥ

Translation

“O Blessed Lord, I long to behold my father together with my brothers.” Thus, bowing again and again before the Liṅga, he made an earnest supplication—seeking Pati, the Lord whose grace loosens the pāśa, the bond that binds the paśu, the soul.

Word by Word

• द्रष्टुम्: to see, to behold

• इच्छामि: I desire

• भगवन्: O Lord, O Blessed One

• पितरम्: father

• भ्रातृभिः: with brothers

• सह: together with

• एवम्: thus

• विज्ञापयाम्: I submit, I petition

• लिङ्गम्: the (Shiva-)Linga, the sign of Pati

• प्रणिपत्य: having bowed down, prostrating

• मुहुः मुहुः: again and again, repeatedly

Speaker

Internal narrator/character addressing Bhagavan through Linga-vandana (framed within Suta’s narration)