Shloka 45

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

Devanagari script

हिरण्याय महेशाय श्रीकण्ठाय नमोनमः भस्मदिग्धशरीराय दण्डमुण्डीश्वराय च

Transliteration

hiraṇyāya maheśāya śrīkaṇṭhāya namonamaḥ bhasmadigdhaśarīrāya daṇḍamuṇḍīśvarāya ca

Translation

Снова и снова поклонение Махадеве — Златому, Великому Владыке, Шрикантхе, Благому-Горлу. Поклонение Тому, чьё тело умащено священным пеплом (бхасмой), и Дандамундишваре — Господу аскетов с посохом и обритой головой.

Word by Word

• हिरण्याय: to the Golden One (radiant, resplendent)

• महेशाय: to Mahēśa, the Great Lord (Pati)

• श्रीकण्ठाय: to Śrīkaṇṭha, the auspicious-throated

• नमोनमः: salutations again and again

• भस्मदिग्धशरीराय: to Him whose body is smeared with bhasma (sacred ash)

• दण्डमुण्डीश्वराय: to the Lord (Īśvara) of the staff-bearers and shaven-headed renunciants

• च: and

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a traditional Shiva-stuti within the Linga Purana discourse)