Shloka 5

Adhyaya 34: भस्ममहात्म्यं—अग्नीषोमात्मक-शिवतत्त्वं तथा पाशुपतव्रतप्रशंसा

Devanagari script

भासत इत्येव यद्भस्म शुभं भावयते च यत् भक्षणात् सर्वपापानां भस्मेति परिकीर्तितम्

Transliteration

bhāsata ityeva yadbhasma śubhaṃ bhāvayate ca yat bhakṣaṇāt sarvapāpānāṃ bhasmeti parikīrtitam

Translation

Она зовётся «бхасма», ибо сияет (bhāsata) и созерцается как благой знак; и потому, что, пожирая—сжигая—все грехи, прославляется как «бхасма», то, что обращает нечистоты в пепел.

Word by Word

• bhāsata: it shines, it illumines

• iti-eva: thus indeed

• yat: which

• bhasma: sacred ash

• śubham: auspicious, pure

• bhāvayate: one contemplates/meditates upon, brings into devotional awareness

• ca: and

• yat: which

• bhakṣaṇāt: by consuming, devouring, burning up

• sarva-pāpānām: of all sins

• bhasma iti: as ‘bhasma’

• parikīrtitam: is proclaimed, is extolled

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Linga Purana’s teaching on bhasma to the sages of Naimisharanya)