Shloka 4

Adhyaya 71: पुरत्रयवृत्तान्तः—ब्रह्मवरदानम्, मयकृतत्रिपुर-निर्माणम्, विष्णुमाया-धर्मविघ्नः, शिवस्तुति, त्रिपुरदाहोपक्रमः

Devanagari script

कथं ददाह भगवान् भगनेत्रनिपातनः एकेनेषुनिपातेन दिव्येनापि तदा कथम्

Transliteration

kathaṃ dadāha bhagavān bhaganetranipātanaḥ ekeneṣunipātena divyenāpi tadā katham

Translation

¿Cómo, entonces, el Bienaventurado Señor—Aquel que abatió el ojo de Bhaga—los quemó? ¿Y cómo, en aquel momento, lo consumó tan sólo con la caída de una sola flecha, aunque fuese un proyectil divino?

Word by Word

• कथम्: how?

• ददाह: burned/consumed

• भगवान्: the Blessed Lord (Pati, Shiva)

• भगनेत्रनिपातनः: the one who caused the fall of Bhaga’s eye

• एकेन: by one/single

• इषु-निपातेन: by the descent/impact of an arrow

• दिव्येन अपि: even though (it was) divine/supernatural

• तदा: then/at that time

• कथम्: how (indeed)?

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya; voicing the inquiry within the episode)