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अध्याय 66: इक्ष्वाकुवंश-ऐलवंशप्रवाहः (त्रिशङ्कु-राम-ययात्यादि-प्रकरणम्)

Devanagari script

येन भागीरथी गङ्गा तपः कृत्वावतारिता भगीरथसुतश्चापि श्रुतो नाम बभूव ह

Transliteration

yena bhāgīrathī gaṅgā tapaḥ kṛtvāvatāritā bhagīrathasutaścāpi śruto nāma babhūva ha

Translation

ज्याच्या तपस्येमुळे भागीरथी गंगा अवतरली. भगीरथाचा पुत्रही ‘श्रुत’ या नावाने प्रसिद्ध झाला.

Word by Word

• येन (yena): by whom

• भागीरथी (bhāgīrathī): the river Gaṅgā connected with Bhagiratha

• गङ्गा (gaṅgā): Gaṅgā

• तपः (tapaḥ): austerity, ascetic heat

• कृत्वा (kṛtvā): having performed

• अवतारिता (avatāritā): caused to descend, brought down

• भगीरथसुतः (bhagīratha-sutaḥ): Bhagiratha’s son

• च (ca): and

• अपि (api): also

• श्रुतः (śrutaḥ): Śruta (name), “the renowned/heard-of”

• नाम (nāma): by name

• बभूव (babhūva): became

• ह (ha): indeed (emphatic particle).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)