Shloka 35

Adhyaya 75: Nishkala–Sakala Shiva, Twofold Linga, and the Supremacy of Dhyana-Yajna

Devanagari script

यजन्ति देहे बाह्ये च चतुष्कोणे षडस्रके दशारे द्वादशारे च षोडशारे त्रिरस्रके

Transliteration

yajanti dehe bāhye ca catuṣkoṇe ṣaḍasrake daśāre dvādaśāre ca ṣoḍaśāre trirasrake

Translation

Они поклоняются (Шиве) и внутри тела, и вовне — утверждая священный образ в четырёхугольной (квадратной) ограде, в шестигранной фигуре, в десятиконечной, в двенадцатиконечной, в шестнадцатиконечной и в треугольной мандале.

Word by Word

• yajanti: they worship/perform sacrifice

• dehe: in the body (as the inner shrine)

• bāhye: externally/outside

• ca: and

• catuṣkoṇe: in a four-cornered (square) form

• ṣaḍasrake: in a six-angled/hexagonal form

• daśāre: in a ten-pointed form

• dvādaśāre: in a twelve-pointed form

• ca: and

• ṣoḍaśāre: in a sixteen-pointed form

• trirasrake: in a triangular form

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Shiva-puja procedures to the sages of Naimisharanya)