Shloka 15

ब्रह्मकृत-ईशानस्तवः तथा विश्वरूपदेवी-प्रकृतिरहस्योपदेशः

Devanagari script

ज्येष्ठाय चैव श्रेष्ठाय रुद्राय वरदाय च कालहन्त्रे नमस्तुभ्यं नमस्तुभ्यं महात्मने

Transliteration

jyeṣṭhāya caiva śreṣṭhāya rudrāya varadāya ca kālahantre namastubhyaṃ namastubhyaṃ mahātmane

Translation

ज्येष्ठाय चैव श्रेष्ठाय रुद्राय वरदाय च। कालहन्त्रे नमस्तुभ्यं नमस्तुभ्यं महात्मने॥

Word by Word

• ज्येष्ठाय: to the eldest/most ancient

• च एव: and indeed

• श्रेष्ठाय: to the श्रेष्ठ (supreme/excellent one)

• रुद्राय: to Rudra

• वरदाय: to the giver of boons

• च: and

• कालहन्त्रे: to the destroyer of Kāla (Time/Death)

• नमः: salutation

• तुभ्यम्: to You

• नमः तुभ्यम्: salutation to You

• महात्मने: to the great-souled one (Mahātman)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a hymn of praise within the Linga Purana’s Rudra-stuti context)