Shloka 41

Varaha-Pradurbhava Context: Prahlada’s Bhakti, Narasimha’s Ugra-Form, and Shiva’s Sharabha Intervention

Devanagari script

कालाय कालरूपाय नमः कालाङ्गहारिणे मीढुष्टमाय देवाय शितिकण्ठाय ते नमः

Transliteration

kālāya kālarūpāya namaḥ kālāṅgahāriṇe mīḍhuṣṭamāya devāya śitikaṇṭhāya te namaḥ

Translation

Salutations to You who are Time itself, whose very form is Time; salutations to the Lord who withdraws the limbs of Time, bringing all to dissolution. Salutations to the most beneficent God, the Blue-throated One—unto You, O Śiva, my reverence.

Word by Word

• कालाय: to Time (as Shiva)

• कालरूपाय: to Him whose form is Time

• नमः: salutation

• कालाङ्गहारिणे: to the remover/withdrawer of the limbs (powers) of Time, i.e., the one who brings dissolution beyond time

• मीढुष्टमाय: to the most gracious/most beneficent

• देवाय: to the God

• शितिकण्ठाय: to the Blue-throated One

• ते: to You

• नमः: salutation

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a hymn within the Linga Purana’s Shaiva praise tradition)