Shloka 100

Adhyaya 72 — Puradāha: Rudra’s Cosmic Chariot, Pāśupata-Vrata, and Brahmā’s Shiva-Stuti

Devanagari script

जगत्त्रयं सर्वमिवापरं तत् पुरत्रयं तत्र विभाति सम्यक् नरेश्वरैश्चैव गणैश् च देवैः सुरेतरैश् च त्रिविधैर्मुनीन्द्राः

Transliteration

jagattrayaṃ sarvamivāparaṃ tat puratrayaṃ tatra vibhāti samyak nareśvaraiścaiva gaṇaiś ca devaiḥ suretaraiś ca trividhairmunīndrāḥ

Translation

Naquela região, a tríade inteira dos mundos parecia como algo secundário; ali, a cidade tríplice (Puratraya) resplandecia em perfeita ordem—repleta de reis entre os homens, das gaṇas de Śiva, dos devas e também dos não-devas—ó primeiro entre os sábios.

Word by Word

• जगत्त्रयम्: the three worlds (trailokya)

• सर्वम्: all, the whole

• इव: as though

• अपरम्: secondary, subordinate

• तत्: that (there/that state)

• पुरत्रयम्: the three cities/threefold city (Puratraya)

• तत्र: there

• विभाति: shines, appears

• सम्यक्: rightly, in perfect order

• नर-ईश्वरैः: by kings/lords among men

• च एव: and indeed

• गणैः: by the gaṇas (Śiva’s attendants)

• च: and

• देवैः: by the gods (devas)

• सुरेतरैः: by non-devas (asuras/other-than-devas)

• च: and

• त्रिविधैः: of three kinds/threefold

• मुनीन्द्राः: O best of sages (vocative sense)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)