Shloka 54

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

Devanagari script

न्यास (देफ़्।, देस्च्रिप्तिओन्) सर्वपापहरं चैव त्रिविधो न्यास उच्यते उत्पत्तिस्थितिसंहारभेदतस्त्रिविधः स्मृतः

Transliteration

nyāsa (def., description) sarvapāpaharaṃ caiva trividho nyāsa ucyate utpattisthitisaṃhārabhedatastrividhaḥ smṛtaḥ

Translation

Le nyāsa — tel qu’il est défini et décrit — est, certes, celui qui ôte tous les péchés. Le nyāsa est enseigné comme triple ; il est mémorisé comme triple selon les distinctions de surgissement (utpatti), de maintien (sthiti) et de résorption (saṁhāra).

Word by Word

• nyāsa: ritual placement/installation of mantra on the body

• sarva: all

• pāpa: sin/impurity

• haram: removing/destroying

• ca eva: and indeed

• trividhaḥ: threefold

• ucyate: is said/declared

• utpatti: origination/arising

• sthiti: maintenance/abiding

• saṁhāra: dissolution/withdrawal

• bhedatas: by way of distinction/classification

• smṛtaḥ: remembered/traditionally taught

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Linga Purana’s teaching to the sages at Naimisharanya)