Shloka 134

Adhyaya 72 — Puradāha: Rudra’s Cosmic Chariot, Pāśupata-Vrata, and Brahmā’s Shiva-Stuti

Devanagari script

सहस्रशिरसे तुभ्यं सहस्राय च ते नमः सहस्रपादयुक्ताय शर्वाय परमेष्ठिने

Transliteration

sahasraśirase tubhyaṃ sahasrāya ca te namaḥ sahasrapādayuktāya śarvāya parameṣṭhine

Translation

Salutations à Toi, ô aux mille têtes ; salutations à Toi, le Mille. Salutations à Śarva, pourvu de mille pieds—au Seigneur suprême siégeant au-dessus de tout, le Pati au-delà de toute mesure.

Word by Word

• सहस्र-शिरसे: to the thousand-headed (all-seeing cosmic form)

• तुभ्यम्: to You

• सहस्राय: to the Thousand / to Him of innumerable forms

• च: and

• ते: to You/your

• नमः: salutation

• सहस्र-पाद-युक्ताय: to the One endowed with a thousand feet (all-pervading)

• शर्वाय: to Śarva (Shiva, the dissolver of impurities/bondage)

• परमेष्ठिने: to Parameṣṭhin (the Supreme, highest-seated Lord)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a traditional Shiva-stuti within the Linga Purana discourse)