Shloka 40

Adhyaya 71: पुरत्रयवृत्तान्तः—ब्रह्मवरदानम्, मयकृतत्रिपुर-निर्माणम्, विष्णुमाया-धर्मविघ्नः, शिवस्तुति, त्रिपुरदाहोपक्रमः

Devanagari script

सो ऽपि नारायणः श्रीमान् चिन्तयामास चेतसा किं कार्यं देवकार्येषु भगवानिति स प्रभुः

Transliteration

so 'pi nārāyaṇaḥ śrīmān cintayāmāsa cetasā kiṃ kāryaṃ devakāryeṣu bhagavāniti sa prabhuḥ

Translation

Então o ilustre Nārāyaṇa também ponderou em seu íntimo: “Que ação deve ser empreendida para a obra dos deuses?”—assim pensou o Senhor Bem-aventurado, o soberano regente.

Word by Word

• saḥ api: he too

• nārāyaṇaḥ: Nārāyaṇa (Viṣṇu)

• śrīmān: illustrious, endowed with auspiciousness

• cintayāmāsa: reflected, deliberated

• cetasā: with the mind/heart

• kim: what

• kāryam: to be done, duty, action

• deva-kāryeṣu: in the affairs/tasks of the gods

• bhagavān: the Blessed Lord

• iti: thus

• saḥ: he

• prabhuḥ: the sovereign, lord

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating; internal thought of Narayana)