Shloka 15

श्वेतमुनिना कालस्य निग्रहः (मृत्युञ्जय-भक्ति-प्रसादः)

Devanagari script

सिंहनादं महत्कृत्वा चास्फाट्य च मुहुर्मुहुः बबन्ध च मुनिं कालः कालप्राप्तं तमाह च

Transliteration

siṃhanādaṃ mahatkṛtvā cāsphāṭya ca muhurmuhuḥ babandha ca muniṃ kālaḥ kālaprāptaṃ tamāha ca

Translation

Poussant un puissant rugissement de lion et claquant des doigts à maintes reprises, Kāla (le Temps) enchaîna le sage ; puis, à celui qui venait d’atteindre l’heure fixée par le destin, Kāla adressa la parole.

Word by Word

• सिंहनादम्: a lion-roar

• महत्: great, mighty

• कृत्वा: having made/done

• च: and

• आस्फाट्य: snapping (the fingers), clapping sharply

• मुहुः-मुहुः: repeatedly, again and again

• बबन्ध: bound, fettered

• च: and

• मुनिम्: the sage

• कालः: Kāla, Time (death as the cosmic power)

• काल-प्राप्तम्: one who has reached his appointed time/destiny

• तम्: to him

• आह: said, spoke

• च: and

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the episode to the sages at Naimisharanya)