Shloka 8

वासिष्ठकथनम् (आदित्य–सोमवंशवर्णनम् तथा रुद्रसहस्रनाम-प्रशंसा)

Devanagari script

छायाशापात् पदं चैकं यमस्य क्लिन्नमुत्तमम् पूयशोणितसम्पूर्णं कृमीणां निचयान्वितम्

Transliteration

chāyāśāpāt padaṃ caikaṃ yamasya klinnamuttamam pūyaśoṇitasampūrṇaṃ kṛmīṇāṃ nicayānvitam

Translation

ഛായയുടെ ശാപം മൂലം യമന്റെ ഒരു കാൽ ഭീകരമായി വ്രണപ്പെട്ടു—പുഴുവും രക്തവും പൂരിതമായി, പുഴുക്കളുടെ കൂട്ടങ്ങളാൽ നിറഞ്ഞു।

Word by Word

• छायाशापात् (chāyā-śāpāt): due to the curse of Chāyā

• पदम् (padam): foot

• च (ca): and

• एकम् (ekam): one

• यमस्य (yamasya): of Yama (Lord of Dharma/death)

• क्लिन्नम् (klinnam): moist, ulcered, suppurating

• उत्तमम् (uttamam): severe/grievous (lit. intense)

• पूय (pūya): pus

• शोणित (śoṇita): blood

• सम्पूर्णम् (sampūrṇam): filled with

• कृमीणाम् (kṛmīṇām): of worms

• निचय (nicaya): heaps/masses

• अन्वितम् (anvitam): endowed with, infested by

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)