Shloka 57

ब्रह्मनारायणस्तवः — शिवस्य प्रभवत्व-प्रतिपादनम्

Devanagari script

प्रणवप्रणवेशाय भगनेत्रान्तकाय च मृगव्याधाय दक्षाय दक्षयज्ञान्तकाय च

Transliteration

praṇavapraṇaveśāya bhaganetrāntakāya ca mṛgavyādhāya dakṣāya dakṣayajñāntakāya ca

Translation

ಪ್ರಣವಸ್ವರೂಪನೂ ಪ್ರಣವೇಶ್ವರನೂ ಆದ ಶಿವನಿಗೆ ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ. ಭಗನ ನೇತ್ರಾಂತಕನಿಗೆ ನಮಃ. ದಿವ್ಯಮೃಗವನ್ನು ಬೆನ್ನಟ್ಟಿದ ವ್ಯಾಧರೂಪನಿಗೆ ನಮಃ. ದಕ್ಷನ ಅಂತರ್ಯಾಮಿ ಅಧಿಷ್ಠಾತೆಗೆ ನಮಃ. ದಕ್ಷಯಜ್ಞಾಂತಕನಿಗೆ ನಮಃ॥

Word by Word

• प्रणव: Pranava (Oṁ)

• प्रणवेश: Lord of Pranava, master of Oṁ

• -आय: to/unto (dative ending)

• भग: Bhaga (a Āditya, deity at Dakṣa’s rite)

• नेत्र: eye

• अन्तक: ender/destroyer

• च: and

• मृग: deer (also a symbol for the elusive mind/creation)

• व्याध: hunter

• दक्ष: Dakṣa (Prajāpati)

• यज्ञ: sacrifice/ritual

• यज्ञान्तक: ender of the sacrifice (one who terminates the rite).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya; the verse functions as a Shiva-stuti within the narration)