Shloka 3

श्वेतमुनिना कालस्य निग्रहः (मृत्युञ्जय-भक्ति-प्रसादः)

Devanagari script

रुद्राध्यायेन पुण्येन नमस्तेत्यादिना द्विजाः ततः कालो महातेजाः कालप्राप्तं द्विजोत्तमम्

Transliteration

rudrādhyāyena puṇyena namastetyādinā dvijāḥ tataḥ kālo mahātejāḥ kālaprāptaṃ dvijottamam

Translation

ਹੇ ਦ੍ਵਿਜੋ, ‘ਨਮਸਤੇ’ ਆਦਿ ਨਾਲ ਸ਼ੁਰੂ ਹੋਣ ਵਾਲੇ ਪੁੰਨ ਰੁਦ੍ਰਾਧਿਆਇ ਦੇ ਜਪ ਨਾਲ, ਤਦ ਮਹਾਤੇਜਸਵੀ ਕਾਲ ਉਸ ਦ੍ਵਿਜੋਤਮ ਕੋਲ ਆਇਆ ਜਿਸ ਦੀ ਨਿਯਤ ਘੜੀ ਆ ਪਹੁੰਚੀ ਸੀ।

Word by Word

• रुद्राध्यायेन: by the chapter/hymn to Rudra

• पुण्येन: by the meritorious (act)

• नमस्ते-इत्यादिना: beginning with “namas te” and similar salutations

• द्विजाः: O twice-born (Brahmins/sages)

• ततः: then/thereupon

• कालः: Kāla (Time/Death)

• महातेजाः: of great splendor/power

• काल-प्राप्तम्: one whose appointed time had come

• द्विजोत्तमम्: the best among Brahmins

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)