Shloka 85

Adhyaya 70: आदिसर्गः—महत्-अहङ्कार-तन्मात्रा-भूतसृष्टिः, ब्रह्माण्डावरणम्, प्रजासर्गः, त्रिमूर्ति-शैवाधिष्ठानम्

Devanagari script

संसिद्धः कार्यकरणे रुद्रश्चाग्रे ह्यवर्तत तेजसाप्रतिमो धीमान् अव्यक्तः सम्प्रकाशकः

Transliteration

saṃsiddhaḥ kāryakaraṇe rudraścāgre hyavartata tejasāpratimo dhīmān avyaktaḥ samprakāśakaḥ

Translation

ルドラは太初に存在した—あらゆる業を成就する力において完全であった。光輝に比類なく、叡智に満ち、内には不顕でありながら、万物を照らし出す顕現者そのものである。

Word by Word

• संसिद्धः: perfectly accomplished/fully perfected

• कार्यकरणे: in the performance of action and its instruments (in effectuating works)

• रुद्रः: Rudra (Shiva, the Pati)

• च: and

• अग्रे: at the beginning/first

• हि: indeed

• अवर्तत: existed/abided/was present

• तेजसा: by splendor, by spiritual radiance

• अप्रतिमः: incomparable, without equal

• धीमान्: wise, possessing awakened intelligence

• अव्यक्तः: unmanifest (beyond gross perception)

• सम्प्रकाशकः: the illuminator, revealer, the one who makes manifest.

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Purana to the sages at Naimisharanya)