Shloka 24

Upamanyu’s Tapas, Shiva’s Indra-Form Test, and the Bestowal of Kshiroda and Gaṇapatya

Devanagari script

क्षीरार्थमदहत्सर्वं तपसा तं निवारय एतस्मिन्नन्तरे देवः पिनाकी परमेश्वरः शक्ररूपं समास्थाय गन्तुं चक्रे मतिं तदा

Transliteration

kṣīrārthamadahatsarvaṃ tapasā taṃ nivāraya etasminnantare devaḥ pinākī parameśvaraḥ śakrarūpaṃ samāsthāya gantuṃ cakre matiṃ tadā

Translation

Désireux de lait, il brûla tout par son ascèse ; retenez-le par l’austérité. Cependant, le Seigneur—Pinākin, le Parameśvara suprême—prit la forme de Śakra (Indra) et décida alors de se mettre en route.

Word by Word

• क्षीरार्थम्: for the sake of milk

• अदहत्: he burned

• सर्वम्: everything

• तपसा: by austerity/ascetic power

• तम्: him

• निवारय: restrain/ward off

• एतस्मिन् अन्तरे: in the meantime/within this interval

• देवः: the Lord (Deva)

• पिनाकी: bearer of the Pināka bow (Shiva)

• परमेश्वरः: the Supreme Lord

• शक्ररूपम्: the form of Śakra (Indra)

• समास्थाय: having assumed/taken on

• गन्तुम्: to go

• चक्रे: made/formed

• मतिम्: intention/resolve

• तदा: then

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages at Naimisharanya)