Shloka 11

Varaha-Pradurbhava Context: Prahlada’s Bhakti, Narasimha’s Ugra-Form, and Shiva’s Sharabha Intervention

Devanagari script

अध्यापयामास च तां ब्रह्मविद्यां सुशोभनाम् दुर्लङ्घ्यां चात्मनो दृष्ट्वा शक्रादिभिर् अपि स्वयम्

Transliteration

adhyāpayāmāsa ca tāṃ brahmavidyāṃ suśobhanām durlaṅghyāṃ cātmano dṛṣṭvā śakrādibhir api svayam

Translation

उसने स्वयं आत्मतत्त्व को—जो इन्द्र आदि देवों के लिए भी दुर्लंघ्य है—देखकर, उस सुशोभित ब्रह्मविद्या का उपदेश किया; वही विद्या बंधनग्रस्त जीव को मोक्षमार्ग में ले जाती है।

Word by Word

• adhyāpayāmāsa: he caused to be taught / he instructed

• ca: and

• tām: that

• brahma-vidyām: knowledge of Brahman / liberating spiritual science

• su-śobhanām: exceedingly splendid, auspicious

• durlaṅghyām: hard to cross over, difficult to surpass

• ca: and

• ātmanaḥ: of the Self

• dṛṣṭvā: having seen/realized

• śakra-ādibhiḥ: by Indra and others

• api: even

• svayam: himself

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Purana to the sages of Naimisharanya; describing an internal episode of instruction)