Shloka 79

Shivamurti–Pratishtha Phala: Shivalaya-Nirmana, Kshetra-Mahatmya, Tirtha-Snana, and Mandala-Vidhi

Devanagari script

कर्मेन्द्रियाणि पञ्चैव तथा बुद्धीन्द्रियाणि च उत्तरे विधिवत्पूज्य षडस्रे चैव पूजयेत्

Transliteration

karmendriyāṇi pañcaiva tathā buddhīndriyāṇi ca uttare vidhivatpūjya ṣaḍasre caiva pūjayet

Translation

उत्तर दिशा में विधिपूर्वक पाँच कर्मेन्द्रियों तथा बुद्धि-इन्द्रियों की पूजा करे; और षडस्र (छः-कोण) विभाग में भी वैसे ही अर्चन करे।

Word by Word

• कर्मेन्द्रियाणि: organs of action (speech, hands, feet, excretion, generation)

• पञ्च: five

• एव: indeed

• तथा: and also

• बुद्धीन्द्रियाणि: organs of knowledge (hearing, touch, sight, taste, smell)

• च: and

• उत्तरे: in the northern (sector/direction)

• विधिवत्: according to prescribed rite

• पूज्य: having worshipped / worshipping

• षडस्रे: in the six-angled (hexagonal) section

• चैव: and indeed

• पूजयेत्: one should worship

Speaker

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