Shloka 72

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

Devanagari script

गच्छोपशमम् ईशेति उपशान्तः शिवस् तथा अत्राहं ब्रह्मणानीय स्थापितः परमेष्ठिना

Transliteration

gacchopaśamam īśeti upaśāntaḥ śivas tathā atrāhaṃ brahmaṇānīya sthāpitaḥ parameṣṭhinā

Translation

「おお主（イーシャ）よ、鎮まりて—寂静へと入れ。」かくしてシヴァは静まり安らいだ。ついでブラフマーによりここへ運ばれ、至上の按配者パラメーシュティンによって我は安置され、礼拝のために主の臨在が確立された。

Word by Word

• गच्छ (gaccha): go/enter

• उपशमम् (upaśamam): into pacification, quiescence

• ईश (īśa): O Lord, the Sovereign (Śiva as Pati)

• इति (iti): thus

• उपशान्तः (upaśāntaḥ): pacified, calmed

• शिवः (śivaḥ): Śiva

• तथा (tathā): then/so

• अत्र (atra): here

• अहम् (aham): I

• ब्रह्मणा (brahmaṇā): by Brahmā

• आनीय (ānīya): having brought

• स्थापितः (sthāpitaḥ): installed, established

• परमेष्ठिना (parameṣṭhinā): by Parameṣṭhin, the Supreme Ordainer (often an epithet of Brahmā or the supreme regulator in the rite)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating an internal account connected with Brahmā and Śiva’s pacification/installation narrative)