Shloka 132

अविमुक्तक्षेत्रमाहात्म्य — काशी-वाराणसी में मोक्ष, लिङ्ग-तीर्थ-मानचित्र, और उपासना-विधि

Devanagari script

कालभैरवमासाद्य धूतपापानि सर्वशः भवन्ति हि सुरेशानि सर्वपर्वसु पर्वसु

Transliteration

kālabhairavamāsādya dhūtapāpāni sarvaśaḥ bhavanti hi sureśāni sarvaparvasu parvasu

Translation

कालभैरवाचे आश्रय घेतल्यास सर्व पापे पूर्णतः झडून जातात; हे देवेशांनो, प्रत्येक पर्वकाळी, प्रत्येक पवित्र संधिकाळी हे फल निश्चयाने प्रकट होते।

Word by Word

• कालभैरवम्: Kālabhairava (the time-transcending, fearsome form of Śiva)

• आसाद्य: having approached/attained refuge in

• धूतपापानि: sins that have been shaken off/cleansed

• सर्वशः: entirely, in every way

• भवन्ति: become/come to be

• हि: indeed

• सुरेशानि: O rulers of the gods (Deva-lords)

• सर्वपर्वसु: in all parva-times (sacred occasions/junctions)

• पर्वसु: at festivals/ritual junctions (emphatic repetition)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the puranic teaching to the sages of Naimisharanya; internal address to the Devas implied by 'sureśāni')