Shloka 6

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

Devanagari script

पुष्करं चान्तरिक्षं वै रथनीडश् च मन्दरः अस्ताद्रिरुदयाद्रिश् च उभौ तौ कूबरौ स्मृतौ

Transliteration

puṣkaraṃ cāntarikṣaṃ vai rathanīḍaś ca mandaraḥ astādrirudayādriś ca ubhau tau kūbarau smṛtau

Translation

पुष्कर और अन्तरिक्ष, रथनीड और मन्दर; तथा अस्ताद्रि और उदयाद्रि—ये दोनों ‘कूबर’ कहे गए हैं, जो शिव की सुव्यवस्थित सृष्टि में नियत सीमाओं के चिह्न हैं।

Word by Word

• पुष्करम् (puṣkaram): Pushkara (a sacred region/tīrtha)

• च (ca): and

• अन्तरिक्षम् (antarikṣam): the mid-space/atmospheric realm

• वै (vai): indeed

• रथनीडः (rathanīḍaḥ): Rathanīḍa (a named mountain/region)

• च (ca): and

• मन्दरः (mandaraḥ): Mandara (mountain)

• अस्ताद्रिः (astādriḥ): Astādri (the setting mountain, western limit)

• उदयाद्रिः (udayādriḥ): Udayādri (the rising mountain, eastern limit)

• च (ca): and

• उभौ (ubhau): both

• तौ (tau): those two

• कूबरौ (kūbarau): boundary-peaks/pillars marking limits

• स्मृतौ (smṛtau): are remembered/declared in tradition

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)