Shloka 8

Adhyaya 33: Pashupata Conduct, Bhasma-Vrata, and Shiva’s Boon to the Sages

Devanagari script

रुद्रलोकमनुप्राप्य न निवर्तन्ति ते पुनः तस्मादेतद्व्रतं दिव्यम् अव्यक्तं व्यक्तलिङ्गिनः

Transliteration

rudralokamanuprāpya na nivartanti te punaḥ tasmādetadvrataṃ divyam avyaktaṃ vyaktaliṅginaḥ

Translation

Ayant atteint le monde de Rudra, ils ne reviennent plus. Ainsi ce vœu divin—subtil en son essence, et pourtant manifesté par le Liṅga—appartient au Seigneur qui porte le signe révélé, et il accorde au paśu, l’âme liée, la délivrance du retour.

Word by Word

• रुद्रलोकम् (rudralokam): Rudra’s abode/world

• अनुप्राप्य (anuprāpya): having reached/attained

• न (na): not

• निवर्तन्ति (nivartanti): return

• ते (te): they

• पुनः (punaḥ): again

• तस्मात् (tasmāt): therefore

• एतत् (etat): this

• व्रतम् (vratam): vow/observance

• दिव्यम् (divyam): divine

• अव्यक्तम् (avyaktam): unmanifest/subtle

• व्यक्तलिङ्गिनः (vyakta-liṅginaḥ): of the One whose Linga/sign is manifest (the Linga-bearing Lord)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Linga Purana teaching to the sages of Naimisharanya)