Shloka 28

देवैर्विष्णोः शरणागमनम्—शिवलिङ्गस्थापनं, शिवसहस्रनामस्तवः, सुदर्शनचक्रप्रदानं च

Devanagari script

अर्थितव्यः सदाचारः सर्वशंभुर्महेश्वरः ईश्वरः स्थाणुरीशानः सहस्राक्षः सहस्रपात्

Transliteration

arthitavyaḥ sadācāraḥ sarvaśaṃbhurmaheśvaraḥ īśvaraḥ sthāṇurīśānaḥ sahasrākṣaḥ sahasrapāt

Translation

သူသည် ဘက္တိဖြင့် အလေးအနက် တောင်းပန်၍ ရှာဖွေရမည့် အရှင်ဖြစ်၏; သူသည် သဒ္ဓါနှင့် သာသနာတော်၏ သာမန်မဟုတ်သော စည်းကမ်းကောင်းကင်ကိုယ်တိုင်ဖြစ်၏။ သူသည် အလုံးစုံ မင်္ဂလာဖြစ်သော သမ္ဘု မဟေရှ్వర—ဣရှ్వర၊ မလှုပ်မရှား တိုင်တံ (သ္ထာဏု) နှင့် ဣရှာန အုပ်စိုးရှင်ဖြစ်၏။ သူသည် မျက်စိတစ်ထောင်၊ ခြေတစ်ထောင်ရှိသော အရှင်ဖြစ်၍ ပာရှု (ချုပ်နှောင်ခံဝိညာဉ်) အားလုံး၏ ပတိအဖြစ် အရာအားလုံးကို လွှမ်းခြုံတော်မူ၏။

Word by Word

• अर्थितव्यः (arthitavyaḥ): to be entreated, worthy to be supplicated

• सदाचारः (sadācāraḥ): right conduct, righteous observance

• सर्वशंभुः (sarvaśaṃbhuḥ): all-auspicious Śambhu, benefactor of all

• महेश्वरः (maheśvaraḥ): the Great Lord

• ईश्वरः (īśvaraḥ): Lord, supreme controller

• स्थाणुः (sthāṇuḥ): the immovable one, the steadfast pillar

• ईशानः (īśānaḥ): ruler, overlord (also the Īśāna aspect of Śiva)

• सहस्राक्षः (sahasrākṣaḥ): thousand-eyed, all-seeing

• सहस्रपात् (sahasrapāt): thousand-footed, all-pervading

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a Shiva Sahasranama section to the sages of Naimisharanya)

Characters & Entities

• Shiva

FAQs

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

It frames Shiva as Sthāṇu—the unmoving, pillar-like Absolute—supporting the Linga theology where the worshipper approaches the steadfast Pati through praise, supplication, and disciplined sadācāra.

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

Shiva is presented as Īśvara/Īśāna (sovereign Lord), Sthāṇu (unchanging reality), and Sahasrākṣa–Sahasrapāt (all-seeing, all-pervading), indicating transcendence with immanent governance over the bound souls (paśu).

What ritualistic or Yogic practice is highlighted here?

The verse emphasizes stotra-japa and devotional supplication grounded in sadācāra—ethical discipline as the foundation for Shaiva sādhanā, aligning the paśu toward the Pati for loosening pāśa (bondage).