Shloka 31

Adhyaya 72 — Puradāha: Rudra’s Cosmic Chariot, Pāśupata-Vrata, and Brahmā’s Shiva-Stuti

Devanagari script

वृषेन्द्ररूपी चोत्थाप्य स्थापयामास वै क्षणम् क्षणान्तरे वृषेन्द्रो ऽपि जानुभ्यामगमद्धराम्

Transliteration

vṛṣendrarūpī cotthāpya sthāpayāmāsa vai kṣaṇam kṣaṇāntare vṛṣendro 'pi jānubhyāmagamaddharām

Translation

Dengan mengambil rupa Raja Lembu (Vṛṣendra), baginda mengangkatnya dan menegakkannya seketika; namun pada detik berikutnya lembu perkasa itu kembali melutut dan tenggelam ke bumi.

Word by Word

• वृषेन्द्ररूपी: taking the form of the lordly bull

• च: and

• उत्थाप्य: having lifted up/raised

• स्थापयामास: caused to stand, set upright

• वै: indeed

• क्षणम्: for a moment

• क्षणान्तरे: in the next moment/soon after

• वृषेन्द्रः अपि: even the bull-lord

• जानुभ्याम्: on (his) two knees

• अगमत्: went, fell down

• धराम्: to the earth/ground

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)