Shloka 13

श्वेतमुनिना कालस्य निग्रहः (मृत्युञ्जय-भक्ति-प्रसादः)

Devanagari script

अतीव भवभक्तानां मद्विधानां महात्मनाम् विधिना किं महाबाहो गच्छ गच्छ यथागतम्

Transliteration

atīva bhavabhaktānāṃ madvidhānāṃ mahātmanām vidhinā kiṃ mahābāho gaccha gaccha yathāgatam

Translation

Ô toi aux bras puissants, pour les grandes âmes, dévots de Bhava (Śiva) et de ma propre nature, à quoi bon des procédures formelles ? Va—va, retourne comme tu es venu.

Word by Word

• अतीव: exceedingly

• भवभक्तानाम् (भव-भक्तानाम्): of the devotees of Bhava (Śiva)

• मद्विधानाम् (मत्-विद्यानाम्/मद्-विद्यानाम्): of those like Me, of My own kind/nature

• महात्मनाम्: of the great-souled ones

• विधिना: by rule, by prescribed ritual procedure (vidhi)

• किम्: what (need)?

• महाबाहो: O mighty-armed one

• गच्छ गच्छ: go, go

• यथागतम्: as you came, in the same manner (returning).

Speaker

Shiva (Bhava), within Suta’s narration to the sages