Shloka 2

उपमन्युना कृष्णाय पाशुपतज्ञान-प्रदानम् तथा दानविधि-फलश्रुतिः

Devanagari script

कथं लब्धं तदा ज्ञानं तस्मात्कृष्णेन धीमता वक्तुमर्हसि तां सूत कथां पातकनाशिनीम्

Transliteration

kathaṃ labdhaṃ tadā jñānaṃ tasmātkṛṣṇena dhīmatā vaktumarhasi tāṃ sūta kathāṃ pātakanāśinīm

Translation

ആ ജ്ഞാനം അന്ന് ആ ധീമാനായ കൃഷ്ണനിലൂടെ എങ്ങനെ ലഭിച്ചു? ഹേ സൂതാ, പാപനാശിനിയായ ആ കഥ പറയേണ്ടത് നിങ്ങളാണ്.

Word by Word

• कथम्: how?

• लब्धम्: obtained/attained

• तदा: then/at that time

• ज्ञानम्: knowledge (jñāna)

• तस्मात्: from him/therefore

• कृष्णेन: by Kṛṣṇa

• धीमता: by the wise one

• वक्तुम्: to tell/speak

• अर्हसि: you are worthy/you should

• ताम्: that

• सूत: O Sūta

• कथाम्: narrative/account

• पातकनाशिनीम्: sin-destroying (that which removes pāpa).

Speaker

Sages at Naimiṣāraṇya (addressing Sūta Gosvāmin)