Shloka 47

क्षुपस्य विष्णुदर्शनं, वैष्णवस्तोत्रं, दधीचविवादः, स्थानेश्वरतीर्थमाहात्म्यं

Devanagari script

अभवत्कुण्ठिताग्रं हि विष्णोश्चक्रं सुदर्शनम् प्रभावाद्धि दधीचस्य क्षुपस्यैव हि संनिधौ

Transliteration

abhavatkuṇṭhitāgraṃ hi viṣṇoścakraṃ sudarśanam prabhāvāddhi dadhīcasya kṣupasyaiva hi saṃnidhau

Translation

ダディーチ（Dadhīci）の霊妙なる光輝（テージャス）の威力によって、ヴィシュヌのスダルシャナの円盤は刃先が鈍った。まるで棘ある灌木の傍らで、ただの刃が鈍るかのように――それほどまでに苦行者の清浄なる聖威は圧倒的であった。

Word by Word

• abhavat: became

• kuṇṭhita-agram: with blunted/dulled tip or edge

• hi: indeed

• viṣṇoḥ: of Viṣṇu

• cakram: discus

• sudarśanam: named Sudarśana

• prabhāvāt: due to the power/radiance

• hi: indeed

• dadhīcasya: of Dadhīci

• kṣupasya: of a shrub/bush (thorny plant)

• iva: as if

• hi: indeed

• saṃnidhau: in the presence/nearby

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)