Shloka 6

क्षुपस्य विष्णुदर्शनं, वैष्णवस्तोत्रं, दधीचविवादः, स्थानेश्वरतीर्थमाहात्म्यं

Devanagari script

तत्त्वमाद्यं भवानेव परं ज्योतिर्जनार्दन परमात्मा परं धाम श्रीपते भूपते प्रभो

Transliteration

tattvamādyaṃ bhavāneva paraṃ jyotirjanārdana paramātmā paraṃ dhāma śrīpate bhūpate prabho

Translation

आपणच आद्य तत्त्व, आपणच परम ज्योती आहात। हे जनार्दन, आपण परमात्मा व परम धाम—हे श्रीपते, सर्वभूतांचे भूपते, हे प्रभो।

Word by Word

• तत्त्वम् (tattvam): essential reality, principle

• आद्यम् (ādyam): primordial, first

• भवान् एव (bhavān eva): you alone

• परम् (param): supreme

• ज्योतिः (jyotiḥ): light, radiance

• जनार्दन (janārdana): Janārdana (a divine epithet, here used as ‘Lord who uplifts beings’)

• परमात्मा (paramātmā): Supreme Self

• परं धाम (paraṃ dhāma): highest abode/refuge

• श्रीपते (śrīpate): Lord of Śrī (prosperity/glory)

• भूपते (bhūpate): lord/king of the earth, sovereign

• प्रभो (prabho): Lord, Master

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a stuti within the Purana’s dialogue framework)