Shloka 41

अध्याय ९६: शरभ-प्रादुर्भावः, नृसिंह-दर्पशमनम्, विष्णोः शिवस्तुतिः, फलश्रुति

Devanagari script

सृष्ट्यर्थेन जगत्पूर्वं शङ्करं नीललोहितम् ललाटे चिन्तयामास तपस्युग्रे व्यवस्थितः

Transliteration

sṛṣṭyarthena jagatpūrvaṃ śaṅkaraṃ nīlalohitam lalāṭe cintayāmāsa tapasyugre vyavasthitaḥ

Translation

ਸ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਟੀ ਦੇ ਹੇਤੁ, ਜਗਤ ਤੋਂ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ, ਉਗ੍ਰ ਤਪ ਵਿੱਚ ਅਡੋਲ ਹੋ ਕੇ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਨੀਲਲੋਹਿਤ ਸ਼ੰਕਰ ਨੂੰ ਮੱਥੇ ਵਿੱਚ ਧਿਆਇਆ।

Word by Word

• सृष्ट्यर्थेन: for the purpose of creation

• जगत्पूर्वम्: before the world (came into manifestation)

• शङ्करम्: Śaṅkara (the auspicious Lord, Śiva)

• नीललोहितम्: Nīlalohita (blue-and-red, a form/epithet of Rudra-Śiva)

• ललाटे: on/in the forehead (brow, ājñā region)

• चिन्तयामास: he contemplated/meditated upon

• तपसि-उग्रे: in fierce austerity

• व्यवस्थितः: established, firmly abiding

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Purva-Bhaga account to the sages of Naimisharanya; internal subject is Brahma engaged in tapas for sṛṣṭi)