Shloka 62

ब्रह्मनारायणस्तवः — शिवस्य प्रभवत्व-प्रतिपादनम्

Devanagari script

नमस्ते प्राणपालाय मुण्डमालाधराय च प्रहीणशोकैर्विविधैर् भूतैः परिवृताय च

Transliteration

namaste prāṇapālāya muṇḍamālādharāya ca prahīṇaśokairvividhair bhūtaiḥ parivṛtāya ca

Translation

प्राणांचे पालन करणाऱ्या, मुंडमाळा धारण करणाऱ्या महादेवाला नमस्कार। शोकत्यागी विविध भूतगणांनी वेढलेल्या स्वामी शिवाला नमस्कार।

Word by Word

• नमस्ते: salutations to You

• प्राणपालाय: to the guardian of prāṇa (life-breath)

• मुण्डमालाधराय: to the wearer of a garland of skulls

• च: and

• प्रहीण-शोकैः: by those who have abandoned grief

• विविधैः: various, manifold

• भूतैः: by bhūtas (elemental/attendant beings)

• परिवृताय: to the One who is encircled/surrounded

• च: and

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a hymn addressed to Shiva within the chapter’s dialogue context)