Shloka 73

उमामहेश्वरव्रतं—पञ्चाक्षरमन्त्रस्य माहात्म्यं, न्यासः, जपविधिः, सदाचारः, विनियोगः

Devanagari script

कृत्वाङ्गन्यासमेवं हि मुखानि परिकल्पयेत् पूर्वादि चोर्ध्वपर्यन्तं नकारादि यथाक्रमम्

Transliteration

kṛtvāṅganyāsamevaṃ hi mukhāni parikalpayet pūrvādi cordhvaparyantaṃ nakārādi yathākramam

Translation

ഇങ്ങനെ അങ്കന്യാസം ചെയ്ത ശേഷം ദിവ്യമുഖങ്ങളെ പരിചിന്തിക്കണം—കിഴക്കിൽ നിന്ന് ആരംഭിച്ച് ഊർധ്വ (ശിഖരം) വരെ—‘ന’കാരാദി അക്ഷരങ്ങളെ ക്രമമായി വിന്യസിച്ച്।

Word by Word

• कृत्वा (kṛtvā): having done

• अङ्गन्यासम् (aṅga-nyāsam): placement/installation of mantra on the limbs (ritual nyāsa)

• एवम् (evam): thus

• हि (hi): indeed

• मुखानि (mukhāni): faces/aspects (of the deity, directionally conceived)

• परिकल्पयेत् (parikalpayet): one should imagine/assign/ritually arrange

• पूर्वादि (pūrvādi): beginning with the east and other directions

• च (ca): and

• ऊर्ध्वपर्यन्तम् (ūrdhva-paryantam): up to the upper direction/zenith

• नकारादि (nakārādi): beginning with ‘na’ (the ‘na’ syllable and onward)

• यथाक्रमम् (yathākramam): in proper sequence

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Puja-vidhi to the sages of Naimisharanya)