Linga Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 104

अविमुक्तक्षेत्रमाहात्म्य — काशी-वाराणसी में मोक्ष, लिङ्ग-तीर्थ-मानचित्र, और उपासना-विधि

Devanagari script

यतः सृष्टास्त्विमे लोकास् ततः क्षेत्रमिदं शुभम् कदाचिन्न मया मुक्तम् अविमुक्तं ततो ऽभवत्

Transliteration

yataḥ sṛṣṭāstvime lokās tataḥ kṣetramidaṃ śubham kadācinna mayā muktam avimuktaṃ tato 'bhavat

Translation

これらの世界がそこから生み出されたゆえに、この聖域は吉祥である。われはいついかなる時もここを捨てぬがゆえ、ここはアヴィムクタ――「決して見捨てられぬ地」と呼ばれる。

Word by Word

• yataḥ: from whom/whence

• sṛṣṭāḥ: created/emanated

• tu: indeed

• ime: these

• lokāḥ: worlds

• tataḥ: therefore/for that reason

• kṣetram: sacred field/holy region

• idam: this

• śubham: auspicious

• kadācit: at any time

• na: not/never

• mayā: by me

• muktam: abandoned/relinquished

• avimuktam: not abandoned, ‘Avimukta’

• tataḥ: thus/therefore

• abhavat: became/has come to be

Speaker

Shiva (as Pati, declaring the nature of Avimukta Kshetra within Suta’s narration)