Shloka 11

श्वेतमुनिना कालस्य निग्रहः (मृत्युञ्जय-भक्ति-प्रसादः)

Devanagari script

तं प्राह च महादेवं कालं सम्प्रेक्ष्य वै दृशा नेत्रेण बाष्पमिश्रेण संभ्रान्तेन समाकुलः

Transliteration

taṃ prāha ca mahādevaṃ kālaṃ samprekṣya vai dṛśā netreṇa bāṣpamiśreṇa saṃbhrāntena samākulaḥ

Translation

Le voyant, Mahādeva se tenant comme Kāla (le Temps), il s’adressa à Lui, le regard fixé sur le Seigneur ; les yeux mêlés de larmes, tout son être tremblait, égaré et accablé.

Word by Word

• tam: Him

• prāha: spoke (addressed)

• ca: and

• mahādevam: Mahādeva (the Great God)

• kālam: Kāla, Time (the cosmic dissolver)

• samprekṣya: having looked upon, having beheld

• vai: indeed

• dṛśā: with the sight, by the gaze

• netreṇa: with the eye(s)

• bāṣpa-miśreṇa: mixed with tears

• saṃbhrāntena: agitated, confused, struck with awe

• samākulaḥ: distressed, overwhelmed, perturbed

Speaker

Narrator (Suta Goswami) describing an internal dialogue; the immediate speaker is an unnamed devotee/being who begins to address Mahadeva as Kala