Shloka 39

Upamanyu’s Tapas, Shiva’s Indra-Form Test, and the Bestowal of Kshiroda and Gaṇapatya

Devanagari script

त्वयैव कथितं सर्वं भवनिन्दारतेन वै प्रसंगाद्देवदेवस्य निर्गुणत्वं महात्मनः

Transliteration

tvayaiva kathitaṃ sarvaṃ bhavanindāratena vai prasaṃgāddevadevasya nirguṇatvaṃ mahātmanaḥ

Translation

तुमने ही सब कुछ कहा है—भव (शिव) की निन्दा में आसक्त होकर। पर उसी प्रसंग में तुमने देवाधिदेव महात्मा के निर्गुण स्वरूप को भी प्रकट कर दिया।

Word by Word

• त्वया एव: by you alone

• कथितम्: spoken/declared

• सर्वम्: everything

• भव-निन्दा-रतॆन: by one engaged in blaming Bhava (Śiva)

• वै: indeed

• प्रसङ्गात्: incidentally/in the course of the topic

• देव-देवस्य: of the God of gods

• निर्गुणत्वम्: quality-less transcendence (nirguṇa state)

• महात्मनः: of the great-souled one

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the internal disputation as part of the Purva-Bhaga discourse)