Shloka 44

Adhyaya 17: लिङ्गोद्भव—ब्रह्मविष्ण्वहङ्कार-शमनं, ओंकार-प्रादुर्भावः, मन्त्र-तत्त्वं च

Devanagari script

नापश्यदल्पमप्यस्य मूलं लिङ्गस्य सूकरः तावत्कालं गतो ह्यूर्ध्वम् अहमप्यरिसूदनः

Transliteration

nāpaśyadalpamapyasya mūlaṃ liṅgasya sūkaraḥ tāvatkālaṃ gato hyūrdhvam ahamapyarisūdanaḥ

Translation

O Javali (Viṣṇu) não percebeu sequer o menor vestígio da raiz do Liṅga. Nesse mesmo intervalo, eu também—ó destruidor de inimigos—subi para o alto (buscando o seu cume).

Word by Word

• na apaśyat: did not see

• alpam api: even a little

• asya: of this

• mūlam: root/base

• liṅgasya: of the Liṅga

• sūkaraḥ: the Boar (Viṣṇu in Varāha-form)

• tāvat-kālam: for that same duration

• gataḥ: went

• hi: indeed

• ūrdhvam: upward

• aham api: I also

• ari-sūdanaḥ: slayer of enemies (vocative/epithet used in address)

Speaker

Brahmā (within Sūta’s narration to the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya)