Shloka 3

अध्याय ८२ — व्यपोहनस्तवः (पापव्यपोहन-स्तोत्रम्)

Devanagari script

दुष्टान्तकाय सर्वाय भवाय परमात्मने पञ्चवक्त्रो दशभुजो ह्य् अक्षपञ्चदशैर्युतः

Transliteration

duṣṭāntakāya sarvāya bhavāya paramātmane pañcavaktro daśabhujo hy akṣapañcadaśairyutaḥ

Translation

ദുഷ്ടാന്തകനായ, സർവ്വവ്യാപിയായ, പരമാത്മാവായ ഭവനു നമസ്കാരം—അവൻ പഞ്ചവക്ത്രനും ദശഭുജനും പതിനഞ്ച് അക്ഷമാലകളാൽ അലങ്കൃതനും ആകുന്നു.

Word by Word

• दुष्टान्तकाय: to the destroyer of the wicked

• सर्वाय: to the all (all-pervading)

• भवाय: to Bhava (Shiva, the Lord of becoming and dissolution)

• परमात्मने: to the Supreme Self

• पञ्चवक्त्रः: five-faced

• दशभुजः: ten-armed

• हि: indeed

• अक्षपञ्चदशैः: with fifteen akṣas (rosary beads/rudrākṣa-like beads)

• युतः: endowed/associated with

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a stotra within the Linga Purana context)