Shloka 105

देवैर्विष्णोः शरणागमनम्—शिवलिङ्गस्थापनं, शिवसहस्रनामस्तवः, सुदर्शनचक्रप्रदानं च

Devanagari script

वसुश्रवाः कव्यवाहः प्रतप्तो विश्वभोजनः जर्यो जराधिशमनो लोहितश् च तनूनपात्

Transliteration

vasuśravāḥ kavyavāhaḥ pratapto viśvabhojanaḥ jaryo jarādhiśamano lohitaś ca tanūnapāt

Translation

Il est Vasuśravā, dont la renommée est un trésor; Kavyavāha, porteur des offrandes aux Ancêtres; Pratप्तa, l’Ardent au feu intense; Viśvabhojana, le Soutien qui nourrit l’univers entier. Il est Jarya, l’Ancien; Jarādhiśamana, Celui qui ôte la décrépitude et la vieillesse; Lohita, le Seigneur Rouge au resplendissement de feu; et Tanūnapāt, le Feu né de Lui-même, jailli de son propre Être.

Word by Word

• वसुश्रवाः: one whose renown (śravas) is rich like the Vasus / abundant fame

• कव्यवाहः: carrier of ancestral offerings (kavya) / Agni as the conveyer to Pitṛs

• प्रतप्तः: intensely heated, blazing

• विश्वभोजनः: nourisher/feeder of the universe, cosmic sustainer

• जर्यः: the very ancient one, primeval

• जराधिशमनो: pacifier/remover of jarā (aging, decay)

• लोहितः: the red-hued one, fiery Rudra

• च: and

• तनूनपात्: self-born fire, arising from one’s own body/essence (Agni-epithet applied to Shiva)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Shiva’s names within the Linga Purana’s Sahasranama section)