Shloka 1

ग्रहसंख्यावर्णनम् — ध्रुवस्य तपोबलात् ध्रुवस्थानप्राप्तिः

Devanagari script

इति श्रीलिङ्गमहापुराणे पूर्वभागे ग्रहसंख्यावर्णनं नामैकषष्टितमो ऽध्यायः ऋषय ऊचुः कथं विष्णोः प्रसादाद्वै ध्रुवो बुद्धिमतां वरः मेढीभूतो ग्राहाणां वै वक्तुमर्हसि सांप्रतम्

Transliteration

iti śrīliṅgamahāpurāṇe pūrvabhāge grahasaṃkhyāvarṇanaṃ nāmaikaṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ ṛṣaya ūcuḥ kathaṃ viṣṇoḥ prasādādvai dhruvo buddhimatāṃ varaḥ meḍhībhūto grāhāṇāṃ vai vaktumarhasi sāṃpratam

Translation

かくして『シュリー・リンガ・マハープラーナ』前篇において、「惑星の数を説く」と名づける章が始まる。聖仙たちは言った。「いまお語りください。ヴィシュヌの恩寵により、智者の中の最勝たるドゥルヴァは、いかにして諸惑星のための不動の枢（宇宙の軸）となったのですか。」

Word by Word

• iti: thus

• śrī-liṅga-mahāpurāṇe: in the auspicious Liṅga Mahāpurāṇa

• pūrva-bhāge: in the former section

• graha-saṅkhyā-varṇanam: enumeration and description of the grahas (planets)

• nāma: named

• eka-ṣaṣṭitamaḥ adhyāyaḥ: the sixty-first chapter (as titled in the colophon)

• ṛṣayaḥ ūcuḥ: the sages said

• katham: how

• viṣṇoḥ prasādāt: by the favor/grace of Viṣṇu

• vai: indeed

• dhruvaḥ: Dhruva

• buddhi-matām varaḥ: the foremost among the intelligent

• meḍhī-bhūtaḥ: having become the pivot/post (axis)

• grahāṇām: of the planets

• vaktum arhasi: you are fit/ought to tell

• sāṃpratam: now/at present.

Speaker

Sages (Ṛṣayaḥ) at Naimiṣāraṇya, questioning Sūta’s narration