Shloka 453

Aśvatthāmā’s Stuti of Rudra and Śiva’s Empowerment (सौप्तिकपर्व, अध्याय ७)

Devanagari script

ये समाराध्य शूलाड्कं॑ भवसायुज्यमागता: । अन्न

Transliteration

ye samārādhya śūlāṅkaṃ bhavasāyujyam āgatāḥ |

Translation

സഞ്ജയൻ പറഞ്ഞു—ത്രിശൂലചിഹ്നിതനായ ഭവൻ (ശിവൻ)നെ യഥാവിധി ആരാധിച്ചവർ അവനോടുള്ള സായുജ്യം പ്രാപിച്ചു. അവർ അവന്റെ പാർഷദന്മാർ; അവർ സദാ ചതുര്വിധ സോമം പാനം ചെയ്യുന്നു—അന്നം, സോമലതാരസം, അമൃതം, ചന്ദ്രമണ്ഡലം. വേദസ്വാധ്യായം, ബ്രഹ്മചര്യം, തപസ്സ്, ഇന്ദ്രിയസംയമം എന്നിവയാൽ ത്രിശൂലധാരിയായ ശിവനെ പ്രസന്നനാക്കി അവർ അവന്റെ നില പ്രാപിച്ചു.

Word by Word

• ये: who (those who)
• ये: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• समाराध्य: having worshipped / having propitiated
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्-आ-राध्
• Form: ल्यप् (absolutive/gerund), Parasmaipada (usage-neutral here)

• शूलाङ्कम्: the trident-marked (one)
• शूलाङ्कम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शूलाङ्क
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• भवस्य: of Bhava (Śiva)
• भवस्य: Sambandha
• Type: Noun
• Root: भव
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• सायुज्यम्: union/identity (with him)
• सायुज्यम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: सायुज्य
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• आगताः: have attained / have come (to)
• Type: Verb
• Root: आ-गम्
• Form: क्त (past passive participle), Masculine, Nominative, Plural

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Bhava (Śiva)
• Śūla (trident)
• Soma
• Soma-latā (Soma creeper)
• Amṛta (nectar)
• Candra-maṇḍala (moon orb)
• Pārṣadas/Gaṇas of Śiva (attendants, implied)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The passage links spiritual attainment (sāyujya with Śiva) to disciplined practice: Vedic study, brahmacarya, austerity, and sense-restraint, culminating in devoted worship of the trident-bearing Lord. Ethical self-mastery is presented as the foundation for divine proximity and liberation-like union.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya describes a class of Śiva’s attendants who have attained union with Bhava through worship and ascetic disciplines. He characterizes their exalted state by saying they continually partake of ‘four kinds of Soma’—symbolic forms of sacred nourishment and immortality associated with divine realms.