Shloka 48

Upamanyu’s Tapas, Shiva’s Indra-Form Test, and the Bestowal of Kshiroda and Gaṇapatya

Devanagari script

एवं व्यवसिते विप्रे भगवान्भगनेत्रहा वारयामास सौम्येन धारणां तस्य योगिनः

Transliteration

evaṃ vyavasite vipre bhagavānbhaganetrahā vārayāmāsa saumyena dhāraṇāṃ tasya yoginaḥ

Translation

О брахман, когда он так решил, Благословенный Владыка — Бхаганетра-ха — мягко удержал дхарану (неподвижное внутреннее сосредоточение) того йогина, смягчив её сострадательным покоем.

Word by Word

• एवं: thus

• व्यवसिते: when (he) had resolved/decided

• विप्रे: O Brahmin

• भगवान्: the Blessed Lord (Pati, Shiva)

• भगनेत्रहा: the slayer of Bhaga’s eye (an epithet of Shiva)

• वारयामास: restrained/checked

• सौम्येन: with gentleness/soothing grace

• धारणाम्: dhāraṇā, steady inner fixation/concentration

• तस्य: of that

• योगिनः: yogin/ascetic practitioner

Speaker

Suta (narrating to the sages; internal episode describing Shiva’s intervention)