Shloka 13

Indra’s Account: Shilada’s Tapas and Shiva’s Manifestation as Nandi

Devanagari script

एवमुक्त्वा मुनिं प्रेक्ष्य प्रणिपत्य स्थितं घृणी सोमः सोमोपमः प्रीतस् तत्रैवान्तरधीयत

Transliteration

evamuktvā muniṃ prekṣya praṇipatya sthitaṃ ghṛṇī somaḥ somopamaḥ prītas tatraivāntaradhīyata

Translation

असे बोलून सोम—सोमासारखा तेजस्वी—मुनिकडे पाहून, प्रणाम करून, करुणा व प्रीतीने तिथेच उभा राहून त्या ठिकाणीच अंतर्धान पावला।

Word by Word

• एवम्: thus

• उक्त्वा: having spoken

• मुनिम्: the sage

• प्रेक्ष्य: having looked at/seeing

• प्रणिपत्य: having bowed/prostrated

• स्थितम्: standing/remaining

• घृणी: compassionate, merciful (one)

• सोमः: Soma (the Moon-god)

• सोमोपमः: comparable to Soma, moon-like in radiance

• प्रीतः: pleased, delighted

• तत्र एव: right there, in that very place

• अन्तरधीयत: disappeared, became invisible

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the episode to the sages of Naimisharanya)