Shloka 8

पीतवासा-कल्पः, माहेश्वरी-दर्शनम्, रौद्री-गायत्री, महायोगेन अपुनर्भवः

Devanagari script

पुनराह महादेवः सर्वदेवनमस्कृतः मतिः स्मृतिर्बुद्धिरिति गायमानः पुनः पुनः

Transliteration

punarāha mahādevaḥ sarvadevanamaskṛtaḥ matiḥ smṛtirbuddhiriti gāyamānaḥ punaḥ punaḥ

Translation

Alors Mahādeva—vénéré et salué par tous les dieux—parla de nouveau, chantant sans cesse : « mati (discernement), smṛti (mémoire) et buddhi (intelligence éveillée) », encore et encore.

Word by Word

• punar: again

• āha: said/spoke

• mahādevaḥ: Lord Mahādeva (Śiva)

• sarva-deva-namaskṛtaḥ: bowed to by all the devas

• matiḥ: reflective discernment/intentional thought

• smṛtiḥ: memory/recollection

• buddhiḥ: intellect/decisive intelligence

• iti: thus/so

• gāyamānaḥ: chanting/singing (reciting)

• punaḥ punaḥ: repeatedly, again and again

Speaker

Suta (narrating Mahadeva’s act within the episode)