Shloka 7

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

Devanagari script

महादेवपरा नित्यं चरन्तो ह्यूर्ध्वरेतसः अर्चयन्ति महादेवं वाङ्मनःकायसंयताः

Transliteration

mahādevaparā nityaṃ caranto hyūrdhvaretasaḥ arcayanti mahādevaṃ vāṅmanaḥkāyasaṃyatāḥ

Translation

महादेवपरा नित्यं चरन्तो ह्यूर्ध्वरेतसः। अर्चयन्ति महादेवं वाङ्मनःकायसंयताः॥

Word by Word

• महादेवपरा: devoted to Mahādeva

• नित्यम्: always

• चरन्तः: living/observing (a disciplined conduct)

• हि: indeed

• ऊर्ध्वरेतसः: those with upward-directed vital seed/energy (continence and sublimation)

• अर्चयन्ति: they worship

• महादेवम्: Mahādeva (Śiva as Pati)

• वाङ्: speech

• मनः: mind

• काय: body

• संयताः: restrained, controlled

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the teaching/tradition of Mahadeva-oriented ascetic worship)