Shloka 70

देवादिसृष्टिकथनम् (वसिष्ठशोकः, पराशरजन्म, एकलिङ्गपूजा, रुद्रदर्शनम्)

Devanagari script

सा निशम्य वचनं तदा शुभं सस्मिता तनयमाह विस्मिता तथ्यम् एतदिति तं निरीक्ष्य सा पुत्र पुत्र भवमर्चयेति च

Transliteration

sā niśamya vacanaṃ tadā śubhaṃ sasmitā tanayamāha vismitā tathyam etaditi taṃ nirīkṣya sā putra putra bhavamarcayeti ca

Translation

ആ ശുഭവചനങ്ങൾ കേട്ട് അവൾ മൃദുഹാസത്തോടെ വിസ്മയിച്ച്, പുത്രനെ നോക്കി പറഞ്ഞു—“ഇത് സത്യമാണ്. മകനേ, എന്റെ മകനേ, ഭവനെ (ശിവനെ) അർച്ചിക്ക.”

Word by Word

• सा (sā): she

• निशम्य (niśamya): having heard

• वचनम् (vacanam): the statement/words

• तदा (tadā): then

• शुभम् (śubham): auspicious, благоприятное

• सस्मिता (sasmitā): smiling

• तनयम् (tanayam): to the son / her son

• आह (āha): said

• विस्मिता (vismitā): astonished, filled with wonder

• सत्यम् (tathyam/satyam): true, factual

• एतत् (etat): this

• इति (iti): thus

• तम् (tam): him

• निरीक्ष्य (nirīkṣya): having looked at, observing

• पुत्र (putra): son

• पुत्र (putra): son (repetition for affection/emphasis)

• भवम् (bhavam): Bhava, Śiva

• अर्चयेति (arcaya iti): “worship!” (imperative)

• च (ca): and

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating an internal dialogue: a mother instructing her son)