Shloka 4

देवदारुवनौकसां प्रति ब्रह्मोपदेशः—लिङ्गलक्षण-प्रतिष्ठा-विधिः, शिवमायारूपदर्शनं, स्तुतिः

Devanagari script

देवानां च ऋषीनां च पितॄणां चैव स प्रभुः सहस्रयुगपर्यन्ते प्रलये सर्वदेहिनः

Transliteration

devānāṃ ca ṛṣīnāṃ ca pitṝṇāṃ caiva sa prabhuḥ sahasrayugaparyante pralaye sarvadehinaḥ

Translation

അവൻ തന്നെയാണ് ദേവന്മാരുടെയും ഋഷിമാരുടെയും പിതൃകളുടെയും പരമപ്രഭു (പതി); സഹസ്രയുഗാന്ത പ്രളയത്തിൽ സർവ്വ ദേഹധാരികളുടെ ഗതി അവൻ അധിഷ്ഠിക്കുന്നു।

Word by Word

• देवानाम्: of the gods (Devas)

• च: and

• ऋषीनाम्: of the seers (Rishis)

• च: and

• पितॄणाम्: of the ancestors (Pitrs)

• च एव: and indeed

• स: He

• प्रभुः: Lord, Master (Pati)

• सहस्र-युग-पर्यन्ते: at the completion/end-limit of a thousand yugas

• प्रलये: in dissolution (Pralaya)

• सर्व-देहिनः: all embodied beings (all pashus in bodies)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages at Naimisharanya)