Shloka 28

योगान्तरायाः, औपसर्गिकसिद्धयः, परवैराग्येन शैवप्रसादः

Devanagari script

तथाष्टचत्वारिंशच् च षट्पञ्चाशत्तथैव च चतुःषष्टिगुणं ब्राह्मं लभते द्विजसत्तमाः

Transliteration

tathāṣṭacatvāriṃśac ca ṣaṭpañcāśattathaiva ca catuḥṣaṣṭiguṇaṃ brāhmaṃ labhate dvijasattamāḥ

Translation

अशा प्रकारे श्रेष्ठ द्विज ब्राह्म्य-पुण्य अठ्ठेचाळीसपट, छप्पन्नपट तसेच चौसष्टपट वाढून प्राप्त करतो.

Word by Word

• tathā: thus/so

• aṣṭa-catvāriṃśat: forty-eight

• ca: and

• ṣaṭ-pañcāśat: fifty-six

• tathaiva: just so/likewise

• catuḥ-ṣaṣṭi-guṇam: sixty-fourfold (as a multiplier)

• brāhmam: Brahmanical merit/sacred reward conducive to brahma-tejas

• labhate: attains/obtains

• dvija-sattamāḥ: the foremost among the twice-born (Brāhmaṇa/initiated Vedic men)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the merit statement as part of the Purāṇic discourse)