Shloka 88

ब्रह्मनारायणस्तवः — शिवस्य प्रभवत्व-प्रतिपादनम्

Devanagari script

अप्रसंख्येयतत्त्वस्य यथा विद्मः स्वशक्तितः कीर्तितं तव माहात्म्यम् अपारस्य महात्मनः

Transliteration

aprasaṃkhyeyatattvasya yathā vidmaḥ svaśaktitaḥ kīrtitaṃ tava māhātmyam apārasya mahātmanaḥ

Translation

ಹೇ ಮಹಾತ್ಮ ಪ್ರಭು! ನಿನ್ನ ತತ್ತ್ವವು ಎಣಿಕೆಗೆ ಮೀರಿದದು, ನಿನ್ನ ಸ್ವರೂಪವು ಅಪಾರ. ನಮ್ಮ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಶಕ್ತಿಯಿಂದ ಎಷ್ಟು ತಿಳಿಯಬಹುದೋ ಅಷ್ಟರ ಮಟ್ಟಿಗೆ ಮಾತ್ರ ನಿನ್ನ ಮಹಿಮೆಯನ್ನು ಕೀರ್ತಿಸಿದ್ದೇವೆ.

Word by Word

• अप्रसंख्येय-तत्त्वस्य: of Him whose true reality is innumerable/beyond calculation

• यथा: as/according to the manner

• विद्मः: we know

• स्व-शक्तितः: by our own power/capacity

• कीर्तितम्: has been praised/proclaimed

• तव: Your

• माहात्म्यम्: greatness, divine majesty

• अपारस्य: of the boundless/infinite

• महात्मनः: of the great-souled (Supreme Being).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Purana; voice of the tradition praising Shiva’s ananta-mahima)