Shloka 2

उपलेपनादिकथनम्

Vastraputa-jala, Ahimsa, and Conduct in Shiva Worship

Devanagari script

आपः पूता भवन्त्येता वस्त्रपूताः समुद्धृताः अफेना मुनिशार्दूला नादेयाश् च विशेषतः

Transliteration

āpaḥ pūtā bhavantyetā vastrapūtāḥ samuddhṛtāḥ aphenā muniśārdūlā nādeyāś ca viśeṣataḥ

Translation

虎のごとき牟尼たちよ、これらの水は汲み上げて布で漉すと清浄となる。泡のないものを用い、とりわけ川の水は殊にふさわしいとされる——かくして水はシヴァ礼拝に堪えるものとなる。

Word by Word

• āpaḥ: waters

• pūtāḥ: purified

• bhavanti: become

• etāḥ: these

• vastra-pūtāḥ: purified by cloth-filtering

• samuddhṛtāḥ: drawn up/collected

• aphenā: free from foam

• muni-śārdūlāḥ: O best of sages (tiger among sages)

• nādeyāḥ: river-born waters (from a river)

• ca: and

• viśeṣataḥ: especially/particularly

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Śiva-pūjā-vidhi to the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya)