Shloka 105
Rudra-Śiva: Names, Two Natures, and the Logic of Epithets (रुद्रनाम-बहुरूपत्व-प्रकरणम्)
सोमपानां च देवानामूष्मपाणां तथैव च । उज्छन्ति ये समीपस्था: सदारा नियतेन्द्रिया:
somapānāṁ ca devānām ūṣmapānāṁ tathaiva ca | ucchanti ye samīpasthāḥ sadārā niyatendriyāḥ ||
सोमप और उष्णप नामक देवताओं के निकट रहने वाले कुछ तपस्वी उच्छवृत्ति से जीवन-निर्वाह करते हैं; वे सदारा होकर भी इन्द्रियों को वश में रखे रहते हैं।
श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse praises disciplined living: maintaining strict control of the senses and sustaining oneself through an austere, non-possessive livelihood (uccha-vṛtti), even while living as a married ascetic (sadāra). Proximity to the divine is linked with restraint and simplicity rather than consumption and excess.
Mahādeva describes a class of self-restrained ascetics who dwell near certain divine beings called Somapāḥ and Ūṣmapāḥ. He characterizes their way of life—subsisting by uccha (gleaning/leftover-based living) and practicing sense-control—presenting them as exemplars of tapas and dharma.