Shloka 16

Adhyaya 73 — त्रिपुरदाहे ब्रह्मस्तवः

Brahmā’s Hymn in the Context of Tripura’s Burning

Devanagari script

कर्मेन्द्रियाणि संशोध्य पुरुषं युगलं तथा चिदात्मानं तनुं कृत्वा चाग्निर्भस्मेति संस्पृशेत्

Transliteration

karmendriyāṇi saṃśodhya puruṣaṃ yugalaṃ tathā cidātmānaṃ tanuṃ kṛtvā cāgnirbhasmeti saṃspṛśet

Translation

行為の諸根を浄め、また具身の人を成り立たせる二つの原理をも浄めて、覚知する自己を微妙ならしめよ。ついで「アグニは灰である」と念じつつ、聖なる灰（バスマ）に触れ、これを塗布すべし。

Word by Word

• कर्मेन्द्रियाणि: organs of action (speech, hands, feet, excretion, procreation)

• संशोध्य: having purified/cleansed

• पुरुषम्: the embodied person (puruṣa, the individual as experiencer)

• युगलम्: the pair/twofold set (a dual principle within the embodied condition)

• तथा: likewise/also

• चिदात्मानम्: the conscious Self, cit-ātman

• तनुम्: subtle, refined, made thin

• कृत्वा: having made/done

• च: and

• अग्निः: Agni, the fire principle

• भस्म इति: as “ash”/in the form of ash

• संस्पृशेत्: should touch, contact, apply (ritually).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Linga Purana teachings to the sages at Naimisharanya; verse embedded in ritual-yogic instruction)