Linga Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 135

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

Devanagari script

नवात्मतत्त्वरूपाय नवाष्टात्मात्मशक्तये पुनरष्टप्रकाशाय तथाष्टाष्टकमूर्तये

Transliteration

navātmatattvarūpāya navāṣṭātmātmaśaktaye punaraṣṭaprakāśāya tathāṣṭāṣṭakamūrtaye

Translation

ကိုယ်တော်၏ ရုပ်သဘောသည် ကိုယ်တော်တတ္တဝါ နဝအာတ္မ (အတ္တ၏ ကိုးမျိုးသဘော) ဖြစ်တော်မူသော သခင်ရှီဝအား နမസ്കာရ။ ကိုယ်တော်၏ ကိုယ်ပိုင်ရှက္တိသည် နဝ-အဋ္ဌ (၉ နှင့် ၈) အတွင်းအင်အားဖြစ်တော်မူသော အရှင်အား နမস্কာရ။ အဋ္ဌပရကာသ (ရှစ်မျိုးအလင်း) အဖြစ် ထပ်မံထင်ရှားတော်မူသော အရှင်အား နမস্কာရ။ ထို့အတူ အဋ္ဌ-အဋ္ဌ (၈ နှင့် ၈) မူရတိများအဖြစ် ပေါ်ထွန်းတော်မူသော အရှင်အား နမস্কာရ။

Word by Word

• नव (nava): nine

• आत्मतत्त्व (ātma-tattva): principle of the Self / essential reality of the Self

• रूपाय (rūpāya): to the one whose form is / unto the formed-as

• नवाष्ट (navāṣṭa): nine-and-eight (a combined enumeration)

• आत्मात्मशक्तये (ātmātma-śaktaye): to the intrinsic power of the Self / to the Self’s own Shakti

• पुनः (punar): again, further

• अष्ट (aṣṭa): eight

• प्रकाशाय (prakāśāya): to the luminous manifestation / to the revealer

• तथा (tathā): likewise, also

• अष्टाष्टक (aṣṭāṣṭaka): eight-and-eight (sixteenfold)

• मूर्तये (mūrtaye): to the embodied form / manifestation

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a hymn within the Linga Purana’s Shaiva praise-context)

Characters & Entities

• Shiva
• Shakti

FAQs

What is the importance of this verse in the context of Linga worship?

It frames Shiva as the source of all enumerated cosmic principles and forms—so the Linga is worshipped not merely as a symbol, but as Pati (the Lord) present as tattva, shakti, and manifested murtis.

How does this verse describe the nature of Shiva (Shiva-tattva)?

Shiva is presented as prakāśa (self-revealing consciousness) and as the ground of multiple tattva-enumerations, indicating His transcendence and immanence through Shakti while remaining the sovereign Pati.

What ritualistic or Yogic practice is highlighted here?

The verse supports contemplative japa and dhyāna used in Shaiva stuti: meditating on Shiva’s multi-fold tattva-forms to loosen pasha (bondage) and steady the pashu (soul) toward Pashupata-oriented liberation.