Shloka 175

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

Devanagari script

सामर्थ्यं च सदा मह्यं भवन्तं वोढुमीश्वरम् सर्वज्ञत्वं च वरद सर्वगत्वं च शङ्कर

Transliteration

sāmarthyaṃ ca sadā mahyaṃ bhavantaṃ voḍhumīśvaram sarvajñatvaṃ ca varada sarvagatvaṃ ca śaṅkara

Translation

Accorde-moi toujours la capacité de Te soutenir—ô Seigneur; accorde-moi l’omniscience, ô Dispensateur de grâces, et accorde-moi l’omniprésence, ô Śaṅkara.

Word by Word

• सामर्थ्यम्: capacity, spiritual power

• च: and

• सदा: always

• मह्यम्: to me

• भवन्तम्: You (honorific)

• वोढुम्: to bear, to uphold, to sustain

• ईश्वरम्: the Lord

• सर्वज्ञत्वम्: omniscience

• च: and

• वरद: giver of boons

• सर्वगत्वम्: all-pervasiveness, omnipresence

• च: and

• शङ्कर: Śaṅkara (Shiva, beneficent one)

Speaker

Suta (narrating an internal prayer/hymnic petition addressed to Shiva)