Shloka 15

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

Devanagari script

तदङ्गणादहं शंभोस् तनुजस्तस्य चाज्ञया संजातः पूर्वमेवाहं युगान्ताग्निसमप्रभः

Transliteration

tadaṅgaṇādahaṃ śaṃbhos tanujastasya cājñayā saṃjātaḥ pūrvamevāhaṃ yugāntāgnisamaprabhaḥ

Translation

त्याच यज्ञांगणातून मी—शंभूचा तनय—त्यांच्या आज्ञेने प्रकट झालो; मी पूर्वीच प्रादुर्भूत होतो आणि युगांताग्नीप्रमाणे तेजस्वी होतो।

Word by Word

• tad-aṅgaṇāt: from that courtyard/precinct

• aham: I

• śaṃbhoḥ: of Śambhu (Shiva)

• tanujaḥ: son/offspring

• tasya: of Him

• ca: and

• ājñayā: by (His) command

• saṃjātaḥ: born/manifested

• pūrvam eva: even earlier/already before

• aham: I

• yuga-anta-agni-sama-prabhaḥ: having splendor equal to the end-of-yuga fire

Speaker

An internal narrator/manifested being describing his own origin (within Suta’s overarching narration)