Shloka 2

अलिङ्ग-लिङ्ग-निरूपणं तथा प्राकृत-सृष्टिवर्णनम्

Devanagari script

प्रधानं प्रकृतिश्चेति यदाहुर्लिङ्गमुत्तमम् गन्धवर्णरसैर्हीनं शब्दस्पर्शादिवर्जितम्

Transliteration

pradhānaṃ prakṛtiśceti yadāhurliṅgamuttamam gandhavarṇarasairhīnaṃ śabdasparśādivarjitam

Translation

その最上のリンガは、プラダーナ、またプラクリティとも語られ、香り・色・味を欠き、さらに音・触など一切の感覚対象を離れている。これは諸感官の及ばぬ彼岸にある主宰（パティ、シヴァ）の超越の印である。

Word by Word

• प्रधानम् (pradhānam): Pradhāna, the primordial undifferentiated ground

• प्रकृतिः (prakṛtiḥ): Prakṛti, primordial Nature/power of manifestation

• च (ca): and

• इति (iti): thus

• यत् (yat): which

• आहुः (āhuḥ): they declare/call

• लिङ्गम् (liṅgam): the Linga, the sign/mark (of Śiva-tattva)

• उत्तमम् (uttamam): supreme, highest

• गन्ध (gandha): smell

• वर्ण (varṇa): color/form-hue

• रसैः (rasaiḥ): with tastes/essences

• हीनम् (hīnam): devoid of, lacking

• शब्द (śabda): sound

• स्पर्श (sparśa): touch

• आदि (ādi): and the rest (sense-objects)

• वर्जितम् (varjitam): excluded from, free of

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)