Shloka 47

आचार्य-धर्मलक्षण-श्रद्धाभक्तिप्राधान्यं तथा लिङ्गे ध्यान-पूजाविधानसंकेतः

Adhyaya 10

Devanagari script

पितामह उवाच वाम तत्पुरुषाघोर सद्योजात महेश्वर दृष्टो मया त्वं गायत्र्या देवदेव महेश्वर केन वश्यो महादेव ध्येयः कुत्र घृणानिधे

Transliteration

pitāmaha uvāca vāma tatpuruṣāghora sadyojāta maheśvara dṛṣṭo mayā tvaṃ gāyatryā devadeva maheśvara kena vaśyo mahādeva dhyeyaḥ kutra ghṛṇānidhe

Translation

पितामह उवाच—वाम तत्पुरुषाघोर सद्योजात महेश्वर। गायत्र्या देवदेव महेश्वर, मया दृष्टोऽसि। केन वश्यो महादेव, ध्येयः कुत्र घृणानिधे?

Word by Word

• पितामहः: Pitāmaha (Brahmā, the grandsire)

• उवाच: said

• वाम: Vāma (the beautiful/left aspect

• तत्पुरुष: Tatpuruṣa (a face/aspect of Śiva)

• अघोर: Aghora (the non-terrifying, auspicious face of Śiva)

• सद्योजात: Sadyajāta (the newly-born/manifest face of Śiva)

• महेश्वर: Maheśvara, the Great Lord

• दृष्टः: seen, beheld

• मया: by me

• त्वम्: You

• गायत्र्या: by (the power of) Gāyatrī (mantra)

• देवदेव: Deva of devas, Lord of gods

• केन: by what (means)

• वश्यः: made compliant/gracious, won over (by devotion)

• महादेव: Mahādeva

• ध्येयः: to be meditated upon

• कुत्र: where/in what locus

• घृणानिधे: O repository of compassion/mercy

Speaker

Pitamaha (Brahma)