Shloka 20

अध्याय 66: इक्ष्वाकुवंश-ऐलवंशप्रवाहः (त्रिशङ्कु-राम-ययात्यादि-प्रकरणम्)

Devanagari script

येन भागीरथी गङ्गा तपः कृत्वावतारिता भगीरथसुतश्चापि श्रुतो नाम बभूव ह

Transliteration

yena bhāgīrathī gaṅgā tapaḥ kṛtvāvatāritā bhagīrathasutaścāpi śruto nāma babhūva ha

Translation

जिनके तप से भागीरथी गंगा का अवतरण हुआ। भगीरथ का पुत्र भी ‘श्रुत’ नाम से प्रसिद्ध हुआ।

Word by Word

• येन (yena): by whom

• भागीरथी (bhāgīrathī): the river Gaṅgā connected with Bhagiratha

• गङ्गा (gaṅgā): Gaṅgā

• तपः (tapaḥ): austerity, ascetic heat

• कृत्वा (kṛtvā): having performed

• अवतारिता (avatāritā): caused to descend, brought down

• भगीरथसुतः (bhagīratha-sutaḥ): Bhagiratha’s son

• च (ca): and

• अपि (api): also

• श्रुतः (śrutaḥ): Śruta (name), “the renowned/heard-of”

• नाम (nāma): by name

• बभूव (babhūva): became

• ह (ha): indeed (emphatic particle).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)