Shloka 2

Adhyaya 52: सोमाधारः, पुण्योदानदी, मेरुप्रदक्षिणा, जम्बूद्वीपनववर्षवर्णनम्

Devanagari script

प्राङ्मुखा दक्षिणास्यास्तु चोत्तरप्रभवाः शुभाः पश्चिमाग्राः पवित्राश् च प्रतिवर्षं प्रकीर्तिताः

Transliteration

prāṅmukhā dakṣiṇāsyāstu cottaraprabhavāḥ śubhāḥ paścimāgrāḥ pavitrāś ca prativarṣaṃ prakīrtitāḥ

Translation

ಪೂರ್ವಮುಖವಾಗಿರುವವು ಕಾರ್ಯಸ್ವರೂಪದಲ್ಲಿ ದಕ್ಷಿಣಮುಖವೆಂದು ಹೇಳಲ್ಪಡುತ್ತವೆ; ಉತ್ತರದಿಂದ ಉದ್ಭವಿಸುವವು ಶುಭಕರ; ಮತ್ತು ಪಶ್ಚಿಮದತ್ತ ಅಗ್ರಭಾಗವಿರುವವು ಪವಿತ್ರಕರ—ಎಂದು ಪ್ರತಿವರ್ಷವೂ ಪ್ರಖ್ಯಾತವಾಗಿದೆ.

Word by Word

• प्राङ्मुखाः: east-facing

• दक्षिणास्याः: south-faced / having the south as the ‘mouth’ (ritual-facing aspect)

• तु: indeed

• च: and

• उत्तर-प्रभवाः: arising from the north / north-origin

• शुभाः: auspicious

• पश्चिम-अग्राः: having the front/tip toward the west

• पवित्राः: purifying, holy

• च: and

• प्रति-वर्षम्: every year, annually

• प्रकीर्तिताः: proclaimed, taught, traditionally recited

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating traditional ritual-directional classifications within the Linga Purana’s puja/vidhi discourse)