Shloka 6

स्नानविधिः — गायत्र्यावाहन, सूर्यवन्दन, तर्पण, पञ्चमहायज्ञ, भस्मस्नान, मन्त्रस्नान

Devanagari script

उदुत्यं च तथा चित्रं जातवेदसमेव च अभिवन्द्य पुनः सूर्यं ब्रह्माणं च विधानतः

Transliteration

udutyaṃ ca tathā citraṃ jātavedasameva ca abhivandya punaḥ sūryaṃ brahmāṇaṃ ca vidhānataḥ

Translation

「ウドゥ・ウティヤム」「チトラム」「ジャータヴェーダス」の讃歌を作法どおり誦したのち、規定に従って再びスーリヤ（太陽神）とブラフマーに恭しく礼拝せよ。かくして礼拝者は外なるヴェーダの行と内なるシャイヴァの修持とを調和させ、儀礼の怠りによるパーシャ（束縛）をゆるめて、パシュがパティ（シヴァ）に近づく備えを整える。

Word by Word

• उदुत्यम्: the Vedic hymn beginning with “ud utyam” (a solar stuti)

• च: and

• तथा: likewise

• चित्रम्: the Vedic hymn “citra” (splendid/bright stuti)

• जातवेदसम्: the Vedic hymn “jātavedas” (Agni/inner-fire stuti)

• एव: indeed

• च: and

• अभिवन्द्य: having saluted, having paid reverence

• पुनः: again, thereafter

• सूर्यम्: Sūrya (the Sun-deity)

• ब्रह्माणम्: Brahmā (cosmic creator, the presiding intellect of creation)

• च: and

• विधानतः: according to injunction, in the prescribed manner

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the prescribed sequence of worship within the Linga Purana’s Shaiva-vidhi framework)