Shloka 35

Adhyaya 75: Nishkala–Sakala Shiva, Twofold Linga, and the Supremacy of Dhyana-Yajna

Devanagari script

यजन्ति देहे बाह्ये च चतुष्कोणे षडस्रके दशारे द्वादशारे च षोडशारे त्रिरस्रके

Transliteration

yajanti dehe bāhye ca catuṣkoṇe ṣaḍasrake daśāre dvādaśāre ca ṣoḍaśāre trirasrake

Translation

वे देह के भीतर भी और बाहर भी पूजा करते हैं—चतुष्कोण (वर्ग), षडस्र, दशार, द्वादशार, षोडशार तथा त्रिरस्र (त्रिकोण) मण्डल में शिव की आराधना करते हैं।

Word by Word

• yajanti: they worship/perform sacrifice

• dehe: in the body (as the inner shrine)

• bāhye: externally/outside

• ca: and

• catuṣkoṇe: in a four-cornered (square) form

• ṣaḍasrake: in a six-angled/hexagonal form

• daśāre: in a ten-pointed form

• dvādaśāre: in a twelve-pointed form

• ca: and

• ṣoḍaśāre: in a sixteen-pointed form

• trirasrake: in a triangular form

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Shiva-puja procedures to the sages of Naimisharanya)