Shloka 3

Aghora-Mantra Japa: Graded Expiations, Pañcagavya Purification, and Homa for Mahāpātaka-Nivṛtti

Devanagari script

ब्रह्महत्यादिकान् घोरांस् तथान्यानपि पातकान् हीनांश्चैव महाभाग तथैव विविधान्यपि

Transliteration

brahmahatyādikān ghorāṃs tathānyānapi pātakān hīnāṃścaiva mahābhāga tathaiva vividhānyapi

Translation

हे महाभाग! हे (शिवानुष्ठान) ब्रह्महत्या इत्यादी घोर पापे तसेच इतर पातकेही—हीन असोत वा विविध प्रकारची—नष्ट करते।

Word by Word

• ब्रह्महत्यादिकान्: sins beginning with brahma-hatyā (killing a brāhmaṇa)

• घोरान्: dreadful/terrible

• तथा: and likewise

• अन्यान्: other

• अपि: also

• पातकान्: sins/transgressions

• हीनान्: lesser/inferior/minor

• च एव: and indeed

• महाभाग: O greatly fortunate one

• तथा एव: just so/likewise

• विविधानि: various/manifold

• अपि: also

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages at Naimisharanya; internal addressee implied as a revered interlocutor, 'mahābhāga')