Shloka 117

वासिष्ठकथनम् (आदित्य–सोमवंशवर्णनम् तथा रुद्रसहस्रनाम-प्रशंसा)

Devanagari script

भस्मशायी भस्मगोप्ता भस्मभूततनुर्गणः आगमश् च विलोपश् च महात्मा सर्वपूजितः

Transliteration

bhasmaśāyī bhasmagoptā bhasmabhūtatanurgaṇaḥ āgamaś ca vilopaś ca mahātmā sarvapūjitaḥ

Translation

ਉਹ ਭਸਮ-ਸ਼ਾਈ, ਭਸਮ ਦਾ ਰਖਵਾਲਾ, ਜਿਸ ਦੇ ਗਣਾਂ ਦੇ ਤਨ ਜਿਵੇਂ ਭਸਮਮਯ ਹਨ; ਉਹੀ ਆਗਮ-ਸਰੂਪ ਅਤੇ ਲਯਕਰਤਾ; ਮਹਾਤਮਾ, ਸਭ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਪੂਜਿਤ ਸ਼ਿਵ ਹੈ।

Word by Word

• भस्मशायी: one who reclines in/with sacred ash

• भस्मगोप्ता: protector/guardian of sacred ash

• भस्मभूततनुः: whose body is (as if) made of ash

• गणः: host, attendant troop (Ganas)

• आगमः: revelation, authoritative Shaiva scripture

• च: and

• विलोपः: disappearance, dissolution, withdrawal

• महात्मा: great-souled, supremely exalted being

• सर्वपूजितः: worshipped by all

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Shiva-names to the sages at Naimisharanya)