Shloka 4

ईशानकल्पवृत्तान्तः तथा लैङ्गपुराणस्य संक्षेप-सूची

Devanagari script

अस्यैकादशसाहस्रे ग्रन्थमानमिह द्विजाः तस्मात्संक्षेपतो वक्ष्ये न श्रुतं विस्तरेण यत्

Transliteration

asyaikādaśasāhasre granthamānamiha dvijāḥ tasmātsaṃkṣepato vakṣye na śrutaṃ vistareṇa yat

Translation

Ô sages deux-fois-nés, la mesure de cette Écriture ici est de onze mille vers. C’est pourquoi je l’enseignerai en forme concise — ce qui n’a pas été entendu dans tout son détail — afin que l’on saisisse sans longueur le sens essentiel concernant Pati (Śiva) et la délivrance du paśu.

Word by Word

• asya: of this (Purāṇa)

• ekādaśa-sāhasre: in eleven thousand (verses)

• grantha-mānam: the textual measure/extent

• iha: here (in this work/tradition)

• dvijāḥ: O twice-born (brāhmaṇa) sages

• tasmāt: therefore

• saṅkṣepataḥ: briefly, in summary

• vakṣye: I shall speak/expound

• na śrutam: what has not been heard

• vistareṇa: in detail, at length

• yat: that which

Speaker

Suta Goswami (Sūta) addressing the sages at Naimiṣāraṇya