Shloka 200

उमामहेश्वरव्रतं—पञ्चाक्षरमन्त्रस्य माहात्म्यं, न्यासः, जपविधिः, सदाचारः, विनियोगः

Devanagari script

अष्टोत्तरसहस्रेण पिबेद्ब्राह्मीरसं द्विजाः ऐहिकां लभते मेधां सर्वशास्त्रधरां शुभाम्

Transliteration

aṣṭottarasahasreṇa pibedbrāhmīrasaṃ dvijāḥ aihikāṃ labhate medhāṃ sarvaśāstradharāṃ śubhām

Translation

Le deux-fois-né (dvija) doit boire le suc de brāhmī en comptant mille huit; ainsi il obtient en ce monde l’éclat de l’intellect, de bon augure, et la faculté de retenir tous les śāstra.

Word by Word

• अष्टोत्तर-सहस्रेण: with (a count of) one thousand and eight (108×?

• पिबेत्: should drink

• ब्राह्मी-रसम्: the juice/extract of brāhmī (Bacopa monnieri

• द्विजाः: the twice-born (initiated Brahmin/Kshatriya/Vaishya)

• ऐहिकाम्: pertaining to this world, worldly

• लभते: attains

• मेधाम्: intellect, retentive intelligence

• सर्व-शास्त्र-धराम्: able to hold/retain all scriptures (learning)

• शुभाम्: auspicious, beneficial.

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya, within a didactic section on vrata/vidhi and merit)