Shloka 15

Adhyaya 44: Nandikesvara’s Manifestation and Abhisheka; The Rule of Namaskara in Shiva-Nama

Devanagari script

शृणुध्वं यत्कृते यूयम् इहाहूता जगद्धिताः श्रुत्वा च प्रयतात्मानः कुरुध्वं तदशङ्किताः

Transliteration

śṛṇudhvaṃ yatkṛte yūyam ihāhūtā jagaddhitāḥ śrutvā ca prayatātmānaḥ kurudhvaṃ tadaśaṅkitāḥ

Translation

हे जगत्-हितैषियो, जिस प्रयोजन से तुम यहाँ बुलाए गए हो, उसे सुनो। सुनकर संयत-चित्त होकर उसे निःशङ्क और निःसन्देह पूर्ण करो।

Word by Word

• शृणुध्वम्: listen (all of you)

• यत्कृते: for which purpose

• यूयम्: you

• इह: here

• आहूताः: summoned/called

• जगद्धिताः: devoted to the welfare of the universe

• श्रुत्वा: having heard

• च: and

• प्रयतात्मानः: self-restrained, purified in mind

• कुरुध्वम्: do/perform

• तत्: that (task/command)

• अशङ्किताः: without fear, without doubt

Speaker

Shiva (as Pati, issuing instruction to the assembled devas/gana-s for jagad-hita)