Shloka 21

शरभप्रादुर्भावो नाम षण्णवतितमोऽध्यायः (जलन्धरविमर्दनम्)

Devanagari script

हन्तुं चराचरं सर्वं समर्थो ऽहं सवासवम् को महेश्वर मद्बाणैर् अच्छेद्यो भुवनत्रये

Transliteration

hantuṃ carācaraṃ sarvaṃ samartho 'haṃ savāsavam ko maheśvara madbāṇair acchedyo bhuvanatraye

Translation

ਮੈਂ ਇੰਦਰ ਸਮੇਤ ਦੇਵਤਿਆਂ ਨਾਲ ਚਰ-ਅਚਰ ਸਭ ਦਾ ਨਾਸ ਕਰਨ ਦੇ ਯੋਗ ਹਾਂ। ਹੇ ਮਹੇਸ਼ਵਰ, ਤ੍ਰਿਭੁਵਨ ਵਿੱਚ ਮੇਰੇ ਬਾਣਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਨਾ ਕੱਟਿਆ ਜਾਣ ਵਾਲਾ ਕੌਣ ਹੈ?

Word by Word

• हन्तुम्: to slay/destroy

• चराचरम्: the moving and the unmoving (all beings)

• सर्वम्: all

• समर्थः: capable/powerful

• अहम्: I

• स-वासवम्: together with Vāsava (Indra) / along with the gods

• कः: who?

• महेश्वर: O Maheśvara (Great Lord, Śiva)

• मद्-बाणैः: by my arrows

• अच्छेद्यः: not to be cut/that cannot be struck down

• भुवन-त्रये: in the three worlds

Speaker

An arrogant warrior (contextually an Asuric figure) addressing Shiva as Maheśvara; outer narration by Suta to the sages