Shloka 53

Pāśupata-vrata Māhātmya: Dvādaśa-Liṅga Mahāvrata, Month-wise Dravya, and Pūjā-krama

Devanagari script

देवत्वं वा पितृत्वं वा देवराजत्वमेव च गाणपत्यपदं वापि सक्तो ऽपि लभते नरः

Transliteration

devatvaṃ vā pitṛtvaṃ vā devarājatvameva ca gāṇapatyapadaṃ vāpi sakto 'pi labhate naraḥ

Translation

शिव में दृढ़ आसक्ति रखने वाला मनुष्य अपनी-अपनी भावना के अनुसार देवत्व, पितृपद, देवराजत्व, अथवा शिवगणों में गाणपत्य पद भी प्राप्त कर लेता है।

Word by Word

• देवत्वम्: divinity, godhood

• वा: or

• पितृत्वम्: the status of a Pitṛ (ancestral being)

• देवराजत्वम्: lordship as Devarāja (Indra-like sovereignty)

• एव: indeed

• च: and

• गाणपत्यपदम्: the post/state of being among the Gaṇas (Śiva’s attendants)

• वा अपि: or even

• सक्तः: attached, devoted, intent

• अपि: even

• लभते: attains, obtains

• नरः: a man, human being

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the phala of Śiva-bhakti to the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya)