Shloka 13

Vibhaga 1, Adhyaya 74 — ब्रह्मप्रोक्तलिङ्गार्चनविधिः

Materials, Classes, and Fruits of Linga-Worship

Devanagari script

त्य्पेस् ओफ़् लिङ्गस् अच्च्। तो मतेरिअल् षड्विधं लिङ्गमित्याहुर् द्रव्याणां च प्रभेदतः तेषां भेदाश्चतुर्युक्तचत्वारिंशदिति स्मृताः

Transliteration

types of liṅgas acc. to material ṣaḍvidhaṃ liṅgamityāhur dravyāṇāṃ ca prabhedataḥ teṣāṃ bhedāścaturyuktacatvāriṃśaditi smṛtāḥ

Translation

द्रव्यभेदानुसार लिंग सहा प्रकारचे सांगितले आहे; आणि त्यांच्या उपभेदांची संख्या परंपरेने एकूण चव्वेचाळीस स्मृत आहे।

Word by Word

• ṣaḍ-vidham: sixfold

• liṅgam: the (Śiva-)Liṅga

• iti: thus

• āhuḥ: they say/declare

• dravyāṇām: of substances/materials

• ca: and

• prabhedataḥ: by (their) differentiation/classification

• teṣām: of those (six kinds)

• bhedāḥ: subdivisions/types

• catur-yukta: augmented by four/with four added

• catvāriṃśat: forty

• iti: thus

• smṛtāḥ: remembered/traditionally taught

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Linga-classification tradition to the sages of Naimisharanya)