Shloka 1

Adhyaya 33: Pashupata Conduct, Bhasma-Vrata, and Shiva’s Boon to the Sages

Devanagari script

इति श्रीलिङ्गमहापुराणे पूर्वभागे द्वात्रिंशो ऽध्यायः नन्द्युवाच ततस्तुतोष भगवान् अनुगृह्य महेश्वरः स्तुतिं श्रुत्वा स्तुतस्तेषाम् इदं वचनमब्रवीत्

Transliteration

iti śrīliṅgamahāpurāṇe pūrvabhāge dvātriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ nandyuvāca tatastutoṣa bhagavān anugṛhya maheśvaraḥ stutiṃ śrutvā stutasteṣām idaṃ vacanamabravīt

Translation

इति श्रीलिङ्गमहापुराणे पूर्वभागे द्वात्रिंशोऽध्यायः। नन्द्युवाच—ततस्तुतोष भगवाननुगृह्य महेश्वरः। स्तुतिं श्रुत्वा स्तुतस्तेषामिदं वचनमब्रवीत्॥

Word by Word

• iti: thus

• śrī-liṅga-mahāpurāṇe: in the auspicious Liṅga Mahāpurāṇa

• pūrva-bhāge: in the first section (Pūrva-bhāga)

• dvātriṃśaḥ adhyāyaḥ: the thirty-second chapter

• nandyuvāca: Nandī said

• tataḥ: then

• tutoṣa: became pleased

• bhagavān: the Blessed Lord

• anugṛhya: having shown grace / having favored

• maheśvaraḥ: Maheśvara (Great Lord Śiva)

• stutim: hymn of praise

• śrutvā: having heard

• stutaḥ: praised

• teṣām: by them / of them

• idam: this

• vacanam: statement, speech

• abravīt: spoke

Speaker

Nandi