Shloka 41

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

Devanagari script

श्रुत्वा निन्दां भवस्याथ तत्क्षणादेव संत्यजेत् स्वदेहं तं निहत्याशु शिवलोकं स गच्छति

Transliteration

śrutvā nindāṃ bhavasyātha tatkṣaṇādeva saṃtyajet svadehaṃ taṃ nihatyāśu śivalokaṃ sa gacchati

Translation

バヴァ（シヴァ神）への冒涜を耳にしたならば、その瞬間にその肉体を捨てるべきである。速やかに自らの肉体を滅ぼした者は、シヴァの世界（シヴァローカ）へと赴く。

Word by Word

• śrutvā: having heard

• nindām: censure/blasphemy

• bhavasya: of Bhava (Śiva)

• atha: then/thereupon

• tatkṣaṇāt eva: at that very moment

• saṃtyajet: should abandon (give up)

• svadeham: one’s own body

• tam: that (body)

• nihatya: having slain/put down

• āśu: quickly

• śivalokam: the realm/world of Śiva

• saḥ: he

• gacchati: goes/attains

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Purāṇic injunction to the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya)