Shloka 87

वासिष्ठकथनम् (आदित्य–सोमवंशवर्णनम् तथा रुद्रसहस्रनाम-प्रशंसा)

Devanagari script

प्रस्कन्दो ऽप्यविभावश् च तुल्यो यज्ञविभागवित् सर्ववासः सर्वचारी दुर्वासा वासवो मतः

Transliteration

praskando 'pyavibhāvaś ca tulyo yajñavibhāgavit sarvavāsaḥ sarvacārī durvāsā vāsavo mataḥ

Translation

स प्रस्कन्दोऽप्यविभावश्च तुल्यः यज्ञविभागवित्। सर्ववासः सर्वचारी दुर्वासा वासवो मतः॥

Word by Word

• प्रस्कन्दः: Praskanda (a name/epithet of Shiva)

• अपि: also

• अविभावः: Avibhāva (the unmanifest/undiminishing one)

• च: and

• तुल्यः: equal, impartial, the same in all

• यज्ञ-विभाग-वित्: knower of the divisions/portions and rules of yajña

• सर्व-वासः: dwelling in all, having all as his abode

• सर्व-चारी: moving everywhere, all-pervading

• दुर्वासाः: harsh-austerity, difficult dwelling

• वासवः: Vāsava (lordly, Indra-like

• मतः: is considered/known as

Speaker

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