Shloka 11

उपमन्युना कृष्णाय पाशुपतज्ञान-प्रदानम् तथा दानविधि-फलश्रुतिः

Devanagari script

अन्यं च कथयिष्यामि मुक्त्यर्थं प्राणिनां सदा सौवर्णीं मेखलां कृत्वा आधारं दण्डधारणम्

Transliteration

anyaṃ ca kathayiṣyāmi muktyarthaṃ prāṇināṃ sadā sauvarṇīṃ mekhalāṃ kṛtvā ādhāraṃ daṇḍadhāraṇam

Translation

ਪ੍ਰਾਣੀਆਂ ਦੀ ਮੁਕਤੀ ਲਈ ਮੈਂ ਹੋਰ ਇੱਕ ਵਰਤ ਦੱਸਦਾ ਹਾਂ: ਸੋਨੇ ਦੀ ਮੇਖਲਾ ਬਣਾ ਕੇ, ਨਿਯਮ ਅਨੁਸਾਰ ਆਧਾਰ-ਰੂਪ ਡੰਡਾ ਧਾਰਨ ਕਰਨਾ ਚਾਹੀਦਾ ਹੈ।

Word by Word

• अन्यम्: another (practice/observance)

• च: and

• कथयिष्यामि: I shall explain

• मुक्त्यर्थम्: for the sake of liberation

• प्राणिनाम्: of living beings/embodied souls (paśu)

• सदा: always

• सौवर्णीम्: golden

• मेखलाम्: girdle/belt

• कृत्वा: having made/put on

• आधारम्: support, prop, sustaining aid

• दण्डधारणम्: the bearing/holding of a staff (as a vrata/discipline)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a Shaiva vrata/discipline within the Linga Purana discourse)