Shloka 9

Indra’s Account: Shilada’s Tapas and Shiva’s Manifestation as Nandi

Devanagari script

शिलाद उवाच भगवन्देवदेवेश त्रिपुरार्दन शङ्कर अयोनिजं मृत्युहीनं पुत्रमिच्छामि सत्तम

Transliteration

śilāda uvāca bhagavandevadeveśa tripurārdana śaṅkara ayonijaṃ mṛtyuhīnaṃ putramicchāmi sattama

Translation

ശിലാദൻ പറഞ്ഞു—“ഭഗവൻ, ദേവദേവേശ, ത്രിപുരാർദന ശങ്കര! ഹേ സത്തമാ, യോനിജനല്ലാത്തതും മരണരഹിതവുമായ ഒരു പുത്രനെ ഞാൻ ആഗ്രഹിക്കുന്നു.”

Word by Word

• शिलाद (śilāda): Śilāda

• उवाच (uvāca): said

• भगवन् (bhagavan): O Blessed Lord

• देवदेवेश (devadeveśa): Lord of the lordly gods / Lord of gods

• त्रिपुरार्दन (tripurārdana): Destroyer of Tripura

• शङ्कर (śaṅkara): Śaṅkara, the beneficent Shiva

• अयोनिजम् (ayonijam): not womb-born / not born from a yoni

• मृत्युहीनम् (mṛtyuhīnam): devoid of death, deathless

• पुत्रम् (putram): son

• इच्छामि (icchāmi): I desire

• सत्तम (sattama): O best of the good / best among the virtuous

Speaker

Śilāda