Shloka 121

वासिष्ठकथनम् (आदित्य–सोमवंशवर्णनम् तथा रुद्रसहस्रनाम-प्रशंसा)

Devanagari script

तुम्बवीणो महाकोप ऊर्ध्वरेता जलेशयः उग्रो वंशकरो वंशो वंशवादी ह्यनिन्दितः

Transliteration

tumbavīṇo mahākopa ūrdhvaretā jaleśayaḥ ugro vaṃśakaro vaṃśo vaṃśavādī hyaninditaḥ

Translation

तुम्बवीणो महाकोप ऊर्ध्वरेता जलेशयः । उग्रो वंशकरो वंशो वंशवादी ह्यनिन्दितः ॥

Word by Word

• तुम्बवीणः: player of the tuṃbā-vīṇā (a lute)

• महाकोपः: great wrath/fierce divine anger (that burns bonds)

• ऊर्ध्वरेता: one whose virya moves upward (perfect continence, yogic sublimation)

• जलेशयः: one who lies in/abides in the waters (cosmic support in the primal waters)

• उग्रः: fierce, formidable

• वंशकरः: maker of a lineage/dynasty (originator of tradition)

• वंशः: lineage itself, ancestral line

• वंशवादी: one who proclaims/recites the lineage (teacher of the paramparā)

• हि: indeed

• अनिन्दितः: blameless, irreproachable

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Shiva’s Sahasranama to the sages of Naimisharanya)