Shloka 26

Varaha-Pradurbhava Context: Prahlada’s Bhakti, Narasimha’s Ugra-Form, and Shiva’s Sharabha Intervention

Devanagari script

द्विजशापच्छलेनैवम् अवतीर्णो ऽसि लीलया न दृष्टं यत्त्वदन्यं हि भवान् सर्वं चराचरम्

Transliteration

dvijaśāpacchalenaivam avatīrṇo 'si līlayā na dṛṣṭaṃ yattvadanyaṃ hi bhavān sarvaṃ carācaram

Translation

Так, под предлогом проклятия брахмана, Ты нисшел сюда в свободной лиле. Ибо нет ничего помимо Тебя: воистину, Ты один — всё движущееся и всё неподвижное.

Word by Word

• द्विज (dvija): twice-born, brāhmaṇa

• शाप (śāpa): curse

• छल (chala): pretext, guise

• एवम् (evam): thus

• अवतीर्णः (avatīrṇaḥ): descended, incarnated

• असि (asi): you are

• लीलया (līlayā): playfully, by divine sport

• न (na): not

• दृष्टम् (dṛṣṭam): seen, found to exist

• यत् (yat): that which

• त्वत्-अन्यं (tvad-anyam): other than you

• हि (hi): indeed

• भवान् (bhavān): you (reverential)

• सर्वम् (sarvam): all

• चर-अचरम् (cara-acaram): moving and unmoving (the entire cosmos)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating an internal eulogy addressed to Shiva within the Purana’s dialogue frame)