Shloka 200

उमामहेश्वरव्रतं—पञ्चाक्षरमन्त्रस्य माहात्म्यं, न्यासः, जपविधिः, सदाचारः, विनियोगः

Devanagari script

अष्टोत्तरसहस्रेण पिबेद्ब्राह्मीरसं द्विजाः ऐहिकां लभते मेधां सर्वशास्त्रधरां शुभाम्

Transliteration

aṣṭottarasahasreṇa pibedbrāhmīrasaṃ dvijāḥ aihikāṃ labhate medhāṃ sarvaśāstradharāṃ śubhām

Translation

ਅਸ਼ਟੋੱਤਰ ਸਹਸ੍ਰ (1008) ਗਿਣਤੀ ਨਾਲ ਬ੍ਰਾਹਮੀ-ਰਸ ਪੀਣ ਨਾਲ ਦਵਿਜ ਨੂੰ ਲੋਕਿਕ ਮੇਧਾ ਮਿਲਦੀ ਹੈ—ਸ਼ੁਭ ਅਤੇ ਸਭ ਸ਼ਾਸਤਰਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਧਾਰਨ ਕਰਨ ਯੋਗ।

Word by Word

• अष्टोत्तर-सहस्रेण: with (a count of) one thousand and eight (108×?

• पिबेत्: should drink

• ब्राह्मी-रसम्: the juice/extract of brāhmī (Bacopa monnieri

• द्विजाः: the twice-born (initiated Brahmin/Kshatriya/Vaishya)

• ऐहिकाम्: pertaining to this world, worldly

• लभते: attains

• मेधाम्: intellect, retentive intelligence

• सर्व-शास्त्र-धराम्: able to hold/retain all scriptures (learning)

• शुभाम्: auspicious, beneficial.

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya, within a didactic section on vrata/vidhi and merit)