Shloka 69

ब्रह्मनारायणस्तवः — शिवस्य प्रभवत्व-प्रतिपादनम्

Devanagari script

नमो ऽकृत्याय कृत्याय मुण्डाय कीकटाय च नम उन्मत्तदेहाय किङ्किणीकाय वै नमः

Transliteration

namo 'kṛtyāya kṛtyāya muṇḍāya kīkaṭāya ca nama unmattadehāya kiṅkiṇīkāya vai namaḥ

Translation

無相なる御方に、また相を取り給う御方に帰依し奉る。剃髪の苦行者に、また卑しと見なされる処にさえ遍歴し給う主に帰依し奉る。御身は神聖なる自在に酔い、狂逸のごとく見ゆる御方に帰依し奉る。鈴の音を纏い給う御方に、まことに帰依し奉る。

Word by Word

• namaḥ: salutations

• akṛtyāya: to the formless/without fashioned form

• kṛtyāya: to the one who becomes manifest/assumes form

• muṇḍāya: to the shaven-headed (ascetic) one

• kīkaṭāya: to the one present even among Kīkaṭas (outsiders/despised regions), i.e., beyond social boundaries

• ca: and

• unmattadehāya: to him whose body is ‘unmatta’ (wild, ecstatic, beyond conventions)

• kiṅkiṇīkāya: to the one wearing kiṅkiṇī (tinkling bells/anklets/ornaments)

• vai: indeed

• namaḥ: salutations

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a received Shiva-stuti within the Linga Purana’s praise sequence)