Shloka 4

Adhyaya 72 — Puradāha: Rudra’s Cosmic Chariot, Pāśupata-Vrata, and Brahmā’s Shiva-Stuti

Devanagari script

अरेषु तेषु विप्रेन्द्राश् चादित्या द्वादशैव तु शशिनः षोडशारेषु कला वामस्य सुव्रताः

Transliteration

areṣu teṣu viprendrāś cādityā dvādaśaiva tu śaśinaḥ ṣoḍaśāreṣu kalā vāmasya suvratāḥ

Translation

ಹೇ ವಿಪ್ರೇಂದ್ರರೇ! ಆ ಅರೆಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಹನ್ನೆರಡು ಆದಿತ್ಯರು ಸ್ಥಾಪಿತರಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ; ಚಂದ್ರನ ಹದಿನಾರು ಅರೆಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಎಡಭಾಗದಲ್ಲಿ ಶುಭಕ್ರಮದಿಂದ ಹದಿನಾರು ಕಲೆಗಳು ಪ್ರತಿಷ್ಠಿತವಾಗಿವೆ।

Word by Word

• अरेषु (areṣu): on the spokes

• तेषु (teṣu): on those

• विप्रेन्द्राः (viprendrāḥ): O chiefs among the Brahmins

• च (ca): and

• आदित्याः (ādityāḥ): the Ādityas (solar deities)

• द्वादश (dvādaśa): twelve

• एव (eva): indeed

• तु (tu): moreover

• शशिनः (śaśinaḥ): of the Moon

• षोडशारेषु (ṣoḍaśāreṣu): on the sixteen spokes

• कलाः (kalāḥ): phases/portions (lunar digits)

• वामस्य (vāmasya): of the left side

• सुव्रताः (suvratāḥ): the well-ordained/auspiciously established ones

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)