Shloka 78

अविमुक्तक्षेत्रमाहात्म्य — काशी-वाराणसी में मोक्ष, लिङ्ग-तीर्थ-मानचित्र, और उपासना-विधि

Devanagari script

स्वर्लीनेश्वर इत्येवम् अत्राहं स्वयमागतः प्राणान् इह नरस्त्यक्त्वा न पुनर्जायते क्वचित्

Transliteration

svarlīneśvara ityevam atrāhaṃ svayamāgataḥ prāṇān iha narastyaktvā na punarjāyate kvacit

Translation

“ਇਸ ਤਰ੍ਹਾਂ ਇਹ ਥਾਂ ‘ਸਵਰਲੀਨੇਸ਼ਵਰ’ ਕਹੀ ਜਾਂਦੀ ਹੈ। ਇੱਥੇ ਮੈਂ ਆਪ ਆਇਆ ਹਾਂ। ਜੋ ਮਨੁੱਖ ਇੱਥੇ ਪ੍ਰਾਣ ਤਿਆਗਦਾ ਹੈ, ਉਹ ਕਿਤੇ ਵੀ ਮੁੜ ਜਨਮ ਨਹੀਂ ਲੈਂਦਾ।”

Word by Word

• स्वर्लीनेश्वर (svarlīneśvara): Svarlina-Ishvara, ‘the Lord where one attains heaven/merges into the higher worlds’

• इति एवम् (iti evam): thus indeed/so it is said

• अत्र (atra): here, in this sacred spot

• अहम् (aham): I

• स्वयम् (svayam): personally, by Myself

• आगतः (āgataḥ): have come/arrived (manifested)

• प्राणान् (prāṇān): life-breaths, vital energies

• इह (iha): here

• नरः (naraḥ): a man/person (pashu, the embodied soul)

• त्यक्त्वा (tyaktvā): having abandoned, having relinquished

• न (na): not

• पुनः (punaḥ): again

• जायते (jāyate): is born

• क्वचित् (kvacit): anywhere, in any place/state.

Speaker

Shiva (as Svarlina-Ishvara), within Suta’s narration to the sages