Shloka 40

शिवार्चनविधिः — देवतानां पाशुपतव्रतप्राप्तिः तथा पशुपाशविमोक्षणम् (अध्याय ८०)

Devanagari script

नानाप्रभावसंयुक्ता नानाभोगरतिप्रियाः नीलोत्पलदलप्रख्याः पद्मपत्रायतेक्षणाः

Transliteration

nānāprabhāvasaṃyuktā nānābhogaratipriyāḥ nīlotpaladalaprakhyāḥ padmapatrāyatekṣaṇāḥ

Translation

അവർ നാനാവിധ പ്രഭാവവും തേജസ്സും സമന്വിതരായി, പലവിധ ഭോഗരതികളിൽ പ്രീതരായി നിലകൊണ്ടു. നീലോത്പലദളങ്ങളെപ്പോലെ ദീപ്തരായി, അവരുടെ ദീർഘനേത്രങ്ങൾ പദ്മപത്രസമം ആയിരുന്നു.

Word by Word

• नाना (nānā): various, many kinds

• प्रभाव (prabhāva): splendor, power, radiance

• संयुक्ताः (saṃyuktāḥ): endowed with, united with

• नाना (nānā): manifold

• भोग (bhoga): enjoyments, sensual or celestial pleasures

• रति (rati): delight, love, pleasure

• प्रियाः (priyāḥ): fond of, dear to

• नीलोत्पल (nīlotpala): blue lotus

• दल (dala): petal

• प्रख्याः (prakhyāḥ): resembling, appearing like

• पद्म (padma): lotus

• पत्र (patra): leaf

• आयत (āyata): long, extended

• ईक्षणाः (īkṣaṇāḥ): eyes, those whose eyes are

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)