Shloka 4

Adhyaya 17: लिङ्गोद्भव—ब्रह्मविष्ण्वहङ्कार-शमनं, ओंकार-प्रादुर्भावः, मन्त्र-तत्त्वं च

Devanagari script

अपृच्छन् भगवंल्लिङ्गं कथमासीदिति स्वयम् लिङ्गे महेश्वरो रुद्रः समभ्यर्च्यः कथं त्विति

Transliteration

apṛcchan bhagavaṃlliṅgaṃ kathamāsīditi svayam liṅge maheśvaro rudraḥ samabhyarcyaḥ kathaṃ tviti

Translation

Mereka bertanya kepada Liṅga yang mulia itu sendiri: “Bagaimanakah engkau wujud?” Dan sekali lagi mereka bertanya: “Bagaimanakah Mahēśvara—Rudra, Pati yang bersemayam dalam Liṅga—harus dipuja dengan benar?”

Word by Word

• अपृच्छन् (apṛcchan): they asked/inquired

• भगवत् (bhagavat): venerable, divine

• लिङ्गम् (liṅgam): the Linga, the sign/emblem of Shiva

• कथम् (katham): how

• आसीत् (āsīt): came to be/was

• इति (iti): thus

• स्वयम् (svayam): themselves/directly

• लिङ्गे (liṅge): in the Linga/as the Linga

• महेश्वरः (maheśvaraḥ): Maheshvara, the Great Lord

• रुद्रः (rudraḥ): Rudra (Shiva as the awe-inspiring Lord)

• समभ्यर्च्यः (samabhyarcyaḥ): to be duly worshipped with full reverence

• कथम् त्व् इति (kathaṁ tv iti): and how indeed?

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the sages’ inquiry within the Linga-Pradurbhava account)