Shloka 6

मदनदाहः — पार्वतीतपः, स्वयंवरलीला, देवस्तम्भनं, दिव्यचक्षुर्दानम्

Devanagari script

सर्वदेवेश्वरः श्रीमान् सर्वलोकपतिर्भवः यस्य वै देवदेवस्य वयं किङ्करवादिनः

Transliteration

sarvadeveśvaraḥ śrīmān sarvalokapatirbhavaḥ yasya vai devadevasya vayaṃ kiṅkaravādinaḥ

Translation

Le glorieux Bhava—Seigneur de tous les dieux et souverain de tous les mondes—devant ce Dieu des dieux, nous ne sommes que des serviteurs, ne parlant qu’en tant que ses assistants.

Word by Word

• सर्व-देव-ईश्वरः: Lord of all deities

• श्रीमान्: glorious, auspicious, possessed of splendor

• सर्व-लोक-पतिः: ruler/lord of all worlds

• भवः: Bhava (a name of Shiva, the Pati)

• यस्य: whose, of whom

• वै: indeed, surely

• देव-देवस्य: of the God of gods

• वयम्: we

• किङ्कर-वादिनः: those who speak/declare as servants (attendants, subordinates).

Speaker

Devas (collectively), within Suta’s narration to the sages at Naimisharanya (contextual attribution)