Shloka 75

वंशानुवर्णनम् — सात्वतवंशः, स्यमन्तक-प्रसङ्गः, कृष्णावतारः, शिवप्रसादः (पाशुपतयोगः)

Devanagari script

प्रलुप्तश्मश्रुकेशश् च घृताक्तो मुञ्जमेखली दीक्षितो भगवान्कृष्णस् तताप च परंतपः

Transliteration

praluptaśmaśrukeśaś ca ghṛtākto muñjamekhalī dīkṣito bhagavānkṛṣṇas tatāpa ca paraṃtapaḥ

Translation

Tendo raspado a barba e os cabelos, ungido o corpo com ghee e cingido com um cinto de relva muñja, o Bem-aventurado Senhor Kṛṣṇa—devidamente iniciado—empreendeu a austeridade, ó abrasador de inimigos.

Word by Word

• प्रलुप्त-श्मश्रु-केशः: with beard and hair shaved off

• च: and

• घृत-आक्तः: anointed/smeared with ghee

• मुञ्ज-मेखली: wearing a muñja-grass girdle

• दीक्षितः: initiated (having received dīkṣā)

• भगवान्: the Blessed Lord

• कृष्णः: Kṛṣṇa

• तताप: performed tapas/austerity

• च: and

• परंतपः: O scorcher of enemies (vocative epithet of the addressed listener)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Purana to the sages of Naimisharanya)