Shloka 144

Adhyaya 72 — Puradāha: Rudra’s Cosmic Chariot, Pāśupata-Vrata, and Brahmā’s Shiva-Stuti

Devanagari script

एकाक्षाय नमस्तुभ्यम् एकरुद्राय ते नमः नमस्त्रिमूर्तये तुभ्यं श्रीकण्ठाय शिखण्डिने

Transliteration

ekākṣāya namastubhyam ekarudrāya te namaḥ namastrimūrtaye tubhyaṃ śrīkaṇṭhāya śikhaṇḍine

Translation

एकाक्ष (एकनेत्र) आपको नमस्कार; एकरुद्र आपको नमस्कार। त्रिमूर्ति-स्वरूप आपको नमस्कार; श्रीकण्ठ तथा शिखण्डी (शिखा-धारी) प्रभु को नमस्कार।

Word by Word

• एकाक्षाय: to the One-Eyed (Lord Shiva)

• नमः: salutations

• तुभ्यम्: to You

• एकरुद्राय: to the One Rudra (the sole supreme Rudra)

• ते: to You/for You

• नमस्त्रिमूर्तये: salutations to the Tri-Mūrti-formed One

• त्रिमूर्तये: to the one of three forms

• श्रीकण्ठाय: to Śrīkaṇṭha (the auspicious-throated)

• शिखण्डिने: to the crested one, wearer of a plume/diadem (Shiva)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a Shiva-stuti within the Purva-Bhaga discourse)