Shloka 1

Adhyaya 34: भस्ममहात्म्यं—अग्नीषोमात्मक-शिवतत्त्वं तथा पाशुपतव्रतप्रशंसा

Devanagari script

इति श्रीलिङ्गमहापुराणे पूर्वभागे ऋषिवाक्यं नाम त्रयस्त्रिंशो ऽध्यायः श्रीभगवानुवाच एतद्वः सम्प्रवक्ष्यामि कथा सर्वस्वमद्य वै अग्निर्ह्यहं सोमकर्ता सोमश्चाग्निमुपाश्रितः

Transliteration

iti śrīliṅgamahāpurāṇe pūrvabhāge ṛṣivākyaṃ nāma trayastriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ śrībhagavānuvāca etadvaḥ sampravakṣyāmi kathā sarvasvamadya vai agnirhyahaṃ somakartā somaścāgnimupāśritaḥ

Translation

Ainsi, dans le Śrī Liṅga Mahāpurāṇa, dans la première partie (Pūrva-bhāga), au passage nommé « Ṛṣivākya », chapitre trente-troisième, le Seigneur Bienheureux dit : « Aujourd’hui je vous exposerai pleinement ce récit, l’essence même de l’enseignement. Je suis véritablement Agni, le façonnateur de Soma ; et Soma, à son tour, demeure en s’appuyant sur Agni. »

Word by Word

• iti: thus

• śrī-liṅga-mahāpurāṇe: in the auspicious Liṅga Mahāpurāṇa

• pūrva-bhāge: in the earlier section

• ṛṣi-vākyaṃ nāma: named ‘the sages’ statement’

• trayastriṃśaḥ adhyāyaḥ: the thirty-third chapter

• śrī-bhagavān uvāca: the Blessed Lord said

• etat: this

• vaḥ: to you (all)

• sampravakṣyāmi: I shall expound completely

• kathā: the account/narrative

• sarvasvam: the all-essential, the whole substance

• adya: today/now

• vai: indeed

• agniḥ: Agni (fire principle)

• hi: surely

• aham: I

• soma-kartā: maker/producer of Soma

• somaḥ: Soma (nectar/moon/oblation principle)

• ca: and

• agnim: upon Agni

• upāśritaḥ: resorted to, dependent on

Speaker

Śrī Bhagavān (Shiva as the Supreme Pati speaking within the Purāṇic narration)