Shloka 14

अध्याय ८२ — व्यपोहनस्तवः (पापव्यपोहन-स्तोत्रम्)

Devanagari script

दाक्षायणी महादेवी गौरी हैमवती शुभा एकपर्णाग्रजा सौम्या तथा वै चैकपाटला

Transliteration

dākṣāyaṇī mahādevī gaurī haimavatī śubhā ekaparṇāgrajā saumyā tathā vai caikapāṭalā

Translation

वह दाक्षायणी महादेवी है; गौरी, हैमवती, शुभा है—एकपर्णा, सौम्या, प्रथमजा; तथा ‘चैकपाटला’ नाम से भी विख्यात है।

Word by Word

• दाक्षायणी: Dākṣāyaṇī (daughter of Dakṣa

• महादेवी: the Great Goddess

• गौरी: Gaurī (the radiant, fair one

• हैमवती: Haimavatī (born of Himavat

• शुभा: auspicious, beneficent

• एकपर्णा: Ekāparṇā (she who sustained herself on a single leaf

• अग्रजा: first-born, elder

• सौम्या: gentle, gracious, soothing

• तथा: and also

• वै: indeed

• च: and

• एकपाटला: Caikapāṭalā/Ekapāṭalā (a specific epithet/name of the Goddess, associated with a single pātalā/rose-apple-like blossom or singular sacred form)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)