Shloka 19

ब्रह्मनारायणस्तवः — शिवस्य प्रभवत्व-प्रतिपादनम्

Devanagari script

वाग्वृषाय नमस्तुभ्यं पुराणवृषभाय च नमः पशूनां पतये गोवृषेन्द्रध्वजाय च

Transliteration

vāgvṛṣāya namastubhyaṃ purāṇavṛṣabhāya ca namaḥ paśūnāṃ pataye govṛṣendradhvajāya ca

Translation

聖なる言（ことば）の雄牛たる御方に礼拝し奉る。太初の雄牛たる御方に礼拝する。パシュ（束縛された魂）の主パティに礼拝し、尊き雄牛を旗印とする御方に礼拝する。

Word by Word

• vāk: speech, sacred utterance (Veda/mantra)

• vṛṣāya: to the Bull, the mighty one (a title of Shiva)

• namaḥ/namas: salutation

• tubhyam: to You

• purāṇa: primordial, ancient

• vṛṣabhāya: to the Bull (Nandi/virility of dharma)

• ca: and

• paśūnām: of the paśus (individual souls under bondage)

• pataye: to the Lord/Master (Pati)

• go: bull/cow

• vṛṣendra: king of bulls, best of bulls

• dhvajāya: to Him whose emblem/banner is (so)

• go-vṛṣendra-dhvajāya: to Shiva whose banner bears the bull-emblem.

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a stuti within the Linga Purana’s praise of Shiva)