Shloka 152

रुद्र-स्तवराजः (Rudra-Stavarāja) — Exempla of Śiva’s Boons and the Hymn’s Phalaśruti

Devanagari script

स्थावराणां पतिश्नैव नियमेन्द्रियवर्धन: । सिद्धार्थ:सिद्धभूतार्थो 5चिन्त्य:सत्यव्रत: शुचि:

Transliteration

sthāvarāṇāṁ patiś caiva niyamendriyavardhanaḥ | siddhārthaḥ siddhabhūtārtho 'cintyaḥ satyavrataḥ śuciḥ ||

Translation

ವಾಯುದೇವನು ಹೇಳಿದರು—ಅವನು ಸ್ಥಾವರಗಳ ಅಧಿಪತಿ, ಹಿಮಾಚಲಾದಿ ಪರ್ವತಾಧಿಪತಿಯಂತೆ. ನಿಯಮಗಳಿಂದ ಮನಸ್ಸಿನೊಡನೆ ಇಂದ್ರಿಯಗಳನ್ನು ದಮನಿಸಿ ಇಂದ್ರಿಯಜಯವನ್ನು ಬಲಪಡಿಸುವವನು. ಅವನು ಸಿದ್ಧಾರ್ಥ—ಆಪ್ತಕಾಮ; ಸಿದ್ಧಭೂತಾರ್ಥ—ಅವನ ಎಲ್ಲ ಉದ್ದೇಶಗಳೂ ಸಿದ್ಧ. ಅವನು ಅಚಿಂತ್ಯ, ಸತ್ಯವ್ರತ, ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ ಶುದ್ಧ।

Word by Word

• स्थावराणाम्: of immovables (mountains etc.)
• स्थावराणाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्थावर
• Form: Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• पतिः: lord, master
• पतिः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पति
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• एव: indeed, just
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव

• नियम-इन्द्रिय-वर्धनः: one who strengthens/controls the senses by discipline (niyama)
• नियम-इन्द्रिय-वर्धनः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: नियम-इन्द्रिय-वर्धन
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सिद्धार्थः: one whose aims are fulfilled; content (āptakāma)
• सिद्धार्थः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सिद्धार्थ
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सिद्ध-भूत-अर्थः: one whose purposes/objects are accomplished
• सिद्ध-भूत-अर्थः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सिद्ध-भूत-अर्थ
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अचिन्त्यः: inconceivable
• अचिन्त्यः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अचिन्त्य
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सत्य-व्रतः: truth-vowed; true to his vow
• सत्य-व्रतः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सत्य-व्रत
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• शुचिः: pure, clean
• शुचिः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शुचि
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vāyu-deva
• Mountains (sthāvara; implied as Himālaya/Himācala etc. by the traditional gloss)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse praises an ideal of dharmic greatness: true lordship is marked not by force but by inner discipline—restraint through niyama, mastery of the senses, unwavering truthfulness, and purity. Such a being is ‘acintya’, indicating that moral and spiritual perfection transcends ordinary mental measurement.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyu-deva is describing and extolling a supremely virtuous figure using a chain of epithets—lord of the immovable (mountains), disciplined, fulfilled, beyond thought, truthful, and pure—framing the character’s authority as grounded in ascetic restraint and ethical integrity.