Shloka 11

अलिङ्ग-लिङ्ग-निरूपणं तथा प्राकृत-सृष्टिवर्णनम्

Devanagari script

शिवेन दृष्टा प्रकृतिः शैवी समभवद्द्विजाः सर्गादौ सा गुणैर्युक्ता पुराव्यक्ता स्वभावतः

Transliteration

śivena dṛṣṭā prakṛtiḥ śaivī samabhavaddvijāḥ sargādau sā guṇairyuktā purāvyaktā svabhāvataḥ

Translation

Ó sábios duas-vezes-nascidos, quando Śiva contemplou Prakṛti, ela tornou-se Śaivī no próprio início da criação; por sua natureza, antes era não manifesta, mas então permaneceu dotada dos guṇas.

Word by Word

• शिवेन (śivena): by Śiva

• दृष्टा (dṛṣṭā): beheld/seen (graced by awareness)

• प्रकृतिः (prakṛtiḥ): Prakṛti, primordial Nature

• शैवी (śaivī): belonging to Śiva/Śiva-powered

• समभवत् (samabhavat): became/arose as

• द्विजाः (dvijāḥ): O twice-born (Brāhmaṇas/sages)

• सर्गादौ (sargādau): at the beginning of creation

• सा (sā): she/that (Prakṛti)

• गुणैः (guṇaiḥ): with the guṇas (sattva-rajas-tamas)

• युक्ता (yuktā): endowed/connected

• पुरा (purā): formerly

• अव्यक्ता (avyaktā): unmanifest

• स्वभावतः (svabhāvataḥ): by inherent nature

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages at Naimisharanya)