Shloka 75

Adhyaya 70: आदिसर्गः—महत्-अहङ्कार-तन्मात्रा-भूतसृष्टिः, ब्रह्माण्डावरणम्, प्रजासर्गः, त्रिमूर्ति-शैवाधिष्ठानम्

Devanagari script

उपास्य रजनीं कृत्स्नां परां माहेश्वरीं तथा अर्हमुखे प्रवृत्तश् च परः प्रकृतिसंभवः

Transliteration

upāsya rajanīṃ kṛtsnāṃ parāṃ māheśvarīṃ tathā arhamukhe pravṛttaś ca paraḥ prakṛtisaṃbhavaḥ

Translation

ਸਾਰੀ ਰਾਤ ਉਸ ਪਰਮ ਮਾਹੇਸ਼ਵਰੀ ਰਜਨੀ ਦੀ ਉਪਾਸਨਾ ਕਰ ਕੇ, ਫਿਰ ਸ਼ੁਭ ਅਗਲੇ ਮੋਹਰੇ ਤੇ ਪ੍ਰਕ੍ਰਿਤੀ-ਸੰਭਵ ਪਰ ਤੱਤ ਪ੍ਰਵ੍ਰਿੱਤ ਹੋਇਆ।

Word by Word

• उपास्य: having worshipped

• रजनीम्: the night

• कृत्स्नाम्: wholly, entirely

• पराम्: supreme

• माहेश्वरीम्: belonging to Maheshvara, sacred to Shiva

• तथा: and thus

• अर्हमुखे: at the worthy/auspicious beginning, at the foremost auspicious moment

• प्रवृत्तः: set in motion, became active

• च: and

• परः: the Supreme

• प्रकृतिसंभवः: arising from Prakṛti (as the causal matrix of manifestation)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Purana to the sages of Naimisharanya)