Shloka 15

Upamanyu’s Tapas, Shiva’s Indra-Form Test, and the Bestowal of Kshiroda and Gaṇapatya

Devanagari script

क्षीरं तत्र कुतो ऽस्माकं महादेवो न पूजितः पूर्वजन्मनि यद्दत्तं शिवमुद्यम्य वै सुत

Transliteration

kṣīraṃ tatra kuto 'smākaṃ mahādevo na pūjitaḥ pūrvajanmani yaddattaṃ śivamudyamya vai suta

Translation

「愛しい子よ、前世にマハーデーヴァを礼拝しなかったのなら、どうしてそこに我らのための乳があろうか。あの時に施したものも—シヴァを真の帰依処として掲げ、固い精進をもって努めるならば、子よ—それのみが吉祥の果を結ぶのだ。」

Word by Word

• क्षीरम्: milk

• तत्र: there/in that situation

• कुतः: how/whence

• अस्माकम्: for us

• महादेवः: Mahadeva (Shiva)

• न: not

• पूजितः: worshipped/honoured

• पूर्वजन्मनि: in a former birth

• यत्: whatever

• दत्तम्: was given/has been donated

• शिवम्: Shiva (as refuge/goal)

• उद्यम्य: having undertaken/striving for

• वै: indeed

• सुत: O son

Speaker

Suta (narrating; verse contains an internal address 'O son')