Shloka 36

क्षुपदधीचिसंवादः — शिलादतपः, वरसीमा, मेघवाहनकल्पे त्रिदेवसमागमः

Devanagari script

एतस्मिन्नन्तरे रुद्रः सर्वदेवभवोद्भवः विकृतं रूपमास्थाय पुरा दत्तवरस्तयोः

Transliteration

etasminnantare rudraḥ sarvadevabhavodbhavaḥ vikṛtaṃ rūpamāsthāya purā dattavarastayoḥ

Translation

അന്നേരം സർവ്വദേവഭാവോദ്ഭവനായ രുദ്രൻ, ആ ഇരുവർക്കും മുൻപ് നൽകിയ വരങ്ങളനുസരിച്ച്, അത്ഭുതകരമായ വികൃതരൂപം ധരിച്ചു।

Word by Word

• एतस्मिन् अन्तरे: in the meantime

• रुद्रः: Rudra (Shiva as the fierce, transformative Lord)

• सर्व-देव-भव-उद्भवः: the source/origin of the conditions and powers of all the gods

• विकृतम्: altered, extraordinary, transformed

• रूपम्: form

• आस्थाय: having assumed/taken on

• पुरा: formerly, earlier

• दत्त-वरः: granted boons

• तयोः: of those two

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)