Shloka 149

देवैर्विष्णोः शरणागमनम्—शिवलिङ्गस्थापनं, शिवसहस्रनामस्तवः, सुदर्शनचक्रप्रदानं च

Devanagari script

अनिर्विण्णो गुणग्राही कलङ्काङ्कः कलङ्कहा स्वभावरुद्रो मध्यस्थः शत्रुघ्नो मध्यनाशकः

Transliteration

anirviṇṇo guṇagrāhī kalaṅkāṅkaḥ kalaṅkahā svabhāvarudro madhyasthaḥ śatrughno madhyanāśakaḥ

Translation

वह कभी निर्विण्ण नहीं होता; गुणों का यथार्थ ग्राही है। वह पावन चिह्नधारी है, फिर भी कलङ्क का हन्ता। स्वभाव से रुद्र; मध्यस्थ साक्षी होकर शत्रुबल का संहारक, और बन्धन-रूप ‘मध्य’ का नाशक है।

Word by Word

• अनिर्विण्णः: never despondent, never weary

• गुणग्राही: perceiver/receiver of the guṇas (their true nature), one who comprehends qualities

• कलङ्काङ्कः: one bearing a mark/emblem, the marked One (whose sign becomes auspicious)

• कलङ्कहा: remover/destroyer of stain, sin, reproach

• स्वभावरुद्रः: Rudra by intrinsic nature, the innate fierce-transformative Lord

• मध्यस्थः: standing in the middle, impartial, the inner witness and mediator

• शत्रुघ्नः: slayer of enemies (inner and outer), destroyer of hostile powers

• मध्यनाशकः: destroyer of the middle/interval, remover of the intervening obstruction (veil) that maintains saṃsāric continuity

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Shiva’s names within the Linga Purana discourse)