Shloka 37

देवादिसृष्टिकथनम् (वसिष्ठशोकः, पराशरजन्म, एकलिङ्गपूजा, रुद्रदर्शनम्)

Devanagari script

अहो ऽद्भुतं मया दृष्टं दुःखपात्री ह्यहं विभो दुःखत्राता भव ब्रह्मन् ब्रह्मसूनो जगद्गुरो

Transliteration

aho 'dbhutaṃ mayā dṛṣṭaṃ duḥkhapātrī hyahaṃ vibho duḥkhatrātā bhava brahman brahmasūno jagadguro

Translation

अहो! मैंने अद्भुत दृश्य देखा; पर मैं दुःख की पात्र बन गई हूँ, हे विभो। हे ब्रह्मन्—ब्रह्मा के सूनु, जगद्गुरो—मेरे दुःख के त्राता बनिए।

Word by Word

• अहो (aho): ah!/indeed

• अद्भुतं (adbhutaṃ): wondrous, marvelous

• मया (mayā): by me

• दृष्टं (dṛṣṭaṃ): seen

• दुःखपात्री (duḥkhapātrī): a receptacle/vessel of sorrow

• हि (hi): indeed

• अहं (ahaṃ): I

• विभो (vibho): O all-pervading/mighty one

• दुःखत्राता (duḥkhatrātā): rescuer from sorrow

• भव (bhava): become (please be)

• ब्रह्मन् (brahman): O Brahman/O sacred lord (vocative)

• ब्रह्मसूनो (brahmasūno): O son of Brahmā

• जगद्गुरो (jagadguro): O teacher of the world

Speaker

A distressed supplicant addressing a divine guru-like figure (invoked as 'son of Brahma' and 'world-teacher') within Suta’s narrated frame