Shloka 74

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

Devanagari script

षडङ्गानि न्यसेत्पश्चाद् यथास्थानं च शोभनम् नमः स्वाहा वषड्ढुं च वौषट्फट्कारकैः सह

Transliteration

ṣaḍaṅgāni nyasetpaścād yathāsthānaṃ ca śobhanam namaḥ svāhā vaṣaḍḍhuṃ ca vauṣaṭphaṭkārakaiḥ saha

Translation

അതിനു ശേഷം യഥാസ്ഥാനമായി ശോഭനമായി ഷഡംഗ-ന്യാസം ചെയ്യണം; കൂടാതെ ‘നമഃ, സ്വാഹാ, വഷട്, ഹൂം, വൗഷട്, ഫട്’ എന്ന ക്രിയാവാചകങ്ങളോടുകൂടി നിർവഹിക്കണം.

Word by Word

• षडङ्गानि: the six limbs (of mantra/nyāsa)

• न्यसेत्: one should place/assign (perform nyāsa)

• पश्चात्: thereafter

• यथास्थानम्: in their proper places

• च: and

• शोभनम्: auspicious, becoming, proper

• नमः: obeisance-formula 'namaḥ'

• स्वाहा: svāhā (offering-formula)

• वषट्: vaṣaṭ (Vedic offering-exclamation)

• हुम् (ढुं): hūṃ (protective bīja, here written as ḍhuṃ)

• वौषट्: vauṣaṭ (variant offering-exclamation)

• फट्कारकैः: with the utterance 'phaṭ' (mantric cutting/protective cry)

• सह: together with.

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Shiva-puja procedures to the sages of Naimisharanya)