Shloka 6

Adhyaya 17: लिङ्गोद्भव—ब्रह्मविष्ण्वहङ्कार-शमनं, ओंकार-प्रादुर्भावः, मन्त्र-तत्त्वं च

Devanagari script

रक्षार्थमंबुधौ मह्यं विष्णोस्त्वासीत् सुरोत्तमाः वैमानिके गते सर्गे जनलोकं सहर्षिभिः

Transliteration

rakṣārthamaṃbudhau mahyaṃ viṣṇostvāsīt surottamāḥ vaimānike gate sarge janalokaṃ saharṣibhiḥ

Translation

大海の中で我を護るために、ああ神々のうち最勝なる者たちよ、我にはヴィシュヌの救護の力があった。さらに天上の者たちの創造が進むと、リシたちと共にジャナローカへと至った。

Word by Word

• rakṣā-artham: for the sake of protection

• ambudhau: in the ocean

• mahyam: for me

• viṣṇoḥ: of Viṣṇu

• tu: indeed

• āsīt: was/existed

• sura-uttamāḥ: O best among the gods (voc.)

• vaimānika-gate: when the (heavenly) aerial/celestial course proceeded/was attained

• sarge: in (the time of) creation/emanation

• janalokam: the world called Janaloka

• saha-ṛṣibhiḥ: together with the sages.

Speaker

Sūta Gosvāmin (narrating the Purāṇic account to the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya)