Shloka 44

ध्यानयोगेन रुद्रदर्शनम् — रुद्रावतार-परिवर्तक्रमः, लकुली (कायावतार), पाशुपतयोगः, लिङ्गार्चन-निष्ठा

Devanagari script

तदाप्यहं भविष्यामि ऋषभो नाम नामतः तत्रापि मम ते पुत्रा भविष्यन्ति महौजसः

Transliteration

tadāpyahaṃ bhaviṣyāmi ṛṣabho nāma nāmataḥ tatrāpi mama te putrā bhaviṣyanti mahaujasaḥ

Translation

तब भी मैं प्रकट होऊँगा—नाम से ‘ऋषभ’; और वहाँ भी मेरे वे पुत्र महौजस्वी होकर जन्म लेंगे।

Word by Word

• तदा अपि (tadā api): even then/at that time also

• अहम् (aham): I

• भविष्यामि (bhaviṣyāmi): shall become/shall manifest

• ऋषभः (ṛṣabhaḥ): Ṛṣabha (the ‘Bull’, a title/name)

• नाम (nāma): by name

• नामतः (nāmataḥ): as designated/nominally

• तत्र अपि (tatra api): there also/in that realm too

• मम (mama): of me/my

• ते (te): those

• पुत्राः (putrāḥ): sons/emanated progeny

• भविष्यन्ति (bhaviṣyanti): will come to be/will be born

• महौजसः (mahaujasaḥ): of great ojas (vital-spiritual potency), mighty

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Shiva’s self-declaration within the Purana’s internal dialogue)