Shloka 98

वासिष्ठकथनम् (आदित्य–सोमवंशवर्णनम् तथा रुद्रसहस्रनाम-प्रशंसा)

Devanagari script

भगहारी नियन्ता च कालो लोकपितामहः चतुर्मुखो महालिङ्गश् चारुलिङ्गस्तथैव च

Transliteration

bhagahārī niyantā ca kālo lokapitāmahaḥ caturmukho mahāliṅgaś cāruliṅgastathaiva ca

Translation

भगहारी नियन्ता च कालो लोकपितामहः। चतुर्मुखो महालिङ्गश्चारुलिङ्गस्तथैव च॥

Word by Word

• भगहारी: remover/seizer of bhaga (sovereignty, fortune, lordly powers)

• नियन्ता: controller, regulator (Pati who governs pashu and pasha)

• कालः: Time, the cosmic dissolver

• लोकपितामहः: grandfather of the worlds, primordial progenitor

• चतुर्मुखः: four-faced (alluding to Brahma-form assumed/contained by Shiva)

• महालिङ्गः: the Great Linga, supreme sign of Pati

• चारुलिङ्गः: the beautiful/auspicious Linga

• तथैव: and likewise/also

• च: and

Speaker

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