Vamana Purana — Jabali on the Banyan Tree, Shloka 66

Jabali Bound on the Banyan Tree and Nandayanti’s Appeal at Sri-Kantha on the Yamuna

Devanagari script

इत्युक्त्वा स महायोगी भूयः स्नात्वा विधानतः उपास्य पश्विमां सन्ध्यां पूजयामास शङ्करम्

Transliteration

ityuktvā sa mahāyogī bhūyaḥ snātvā vidhānataḥ upāsya paśvimāṃ sandhyāṃ pūjayāmāsa śaṅkaram

Translation

និយាយដូច្នេះហើយ មហាយោគីនោះបានងូតទឹកម្ដងទៀតតាមវិធានកំណត់; បន្ទាប់មក បានអនុវត្តពិធីសន្ធ្យាពេលល្ងាច ហើយបានបូជាព្រះសង្ករ (Śaṅkara)។

Word by Word

• इति: thus
• इति: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; इत्यादि-उद्धरणसूचक (quotative particle)

• उक्त्वा: having said
• उक्त्वा: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: वच् (धातु) + क्त्वा (कृदन्त)
• Form: क्त्वान्त अव्यय (absolutive/gerund)

• सः: he
• सः: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; Nominative singular masculine

• महायोगी: the great yogi
• महायोगी: Karta (कर्ता) (apposition)
• Type: Noun
• Root: महा + योगिन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; Nominative singular masculine

• भूयः: again
• भूयः: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: भूयः (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; पुनरर्थक क्रियाविशेषण (again/further)

• स्नात्वा: having bathed
• स्नात्वा: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: स्ना (धातु) + क्त्वा (कृदन्त)
• Form: क्त्वान्त अव्यय (absolutive/gerund)

• विधानतः: according to the prescribed rite
• विधानतः: Prakaraṇa (प्रकार)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: विधानतस् (अव्यय; विधान + तसिल्)
• Form: अव्यय; प्रकार/नियमवाचक (according to rule)

• उपास्य: having worshipped/attended upon
• उपास्य: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: उप-आस् (धातु) + ल्यप्/य (कृदन्त)
• Form: ल्यबन्त/ल्यपन्त अव्यय (gerund)

• पश्चिमाम्: evening (western)
• पश्चिमाम्: Visheshana (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पश्चिम (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन; Accusative singular feminine; qualifying सन्ध्याम्

• सन्ध्याम्: twilight prayer (sandhyā)
• सन्ध्याम्: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सन्ध्या (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन; Accusative singular feminine

• पूजयामास: worshipped
• पूजयामास: Kriya (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: पूज् (धातु) + यामास (परस्मैपद-परिप्रयोग)
• Form: लिट् (Perfect) परिप्रयोग ‘यामास’ सह; प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन; Parasmaipada; intensive/periphrastic perfect sense ‘did worship’

• शङ्करम्: Śaṅkara (Śiva)
• शङ्करम्: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: शङ्कर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन; Accusative singular masculine

Speakers

• Narrator voice within the Purāṇic dialogue (contextual narration of a yogin’s actions)

Primary Deities

• Śiva (Śaṅkara/Hara)

Key Themes

• Tīrtha-yātrā discipline
• Ritual purity (snāna)
• Sandhyā worship
• Śaiva devotion in a tīrtha context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Flavour)

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FAQs

Why are snāna (bathing) and sandhyā emphasized before Śiva-pūjā?

In Purāṇic tīrtha contexts, snāna establishes ritual purity and sandhyā marks the liminal time (twilight) considered especially potent for japa and worship; the sequence frames the pūjā as fully ‘vidhānataḥ’ (injunction-compliant).

Does ‘paścimā sandhyā’ mean ‘western’ or ‘evening’ sandhyā?

Here it functions as the evening sandhyā (sāyam-sandhyā). Purāṇic usage often associates the evening rite with the sun’s setting direction (west), hence the descriptor.

What does calling Śiva ‘Śaṅkara’ signal in this narrative?

‘Śaṅkara’ foregrounds Śiva’s auspicious, beneficent aspect—appropriate in a tīrtha-mahātmya setting where worship is linked to welfare, merit (puṇya), and safe passage in pilgrimage.