Shloka 93

Adhyaya 70: आदिसर्गः—महत्-अहङ्कार-तन्मात्रा-भूतसृष्टिः, ब्रह्माण्डावरणम्, प्रजासर्गः, त्रिमूर्ति-शैवाधिष्ठानम्

Devanagari script

एकधा स द्विधा चैव त्रिधा च बहुधा पुनः महेश्वरः शरीराणि करोति विकरोति च

Transliteration

ekadhā sa dvidhā caiva tridhā ca bahudhā punaḥ maheśvaraḥ śarīrāṇi karoti vikaroti ca

Translation

एकधा स द्विधा चैव त्रिधा च बहुधा पुनः। महेश्वरः शरीराणि करोति विकरोति च॥

Word by Word

• ekadhā: as one (in a single mode)

• saḥ: he (that Lord)

• dvidhā: as twofold

• ca eva: and indeed

• tridhā: as threefold

• ca: and

• bahudhā: as many kinds

• punaḥ: again, repeatedly

• maheśvaraḥ: Maheshvara, the Great Lord (Pati)

• śarīrāṇi: bodies, embodied forms

• karoti: makes, brings forth

• vikaroti: alters, diversifies, transforms

• ca: and

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Linga Purana teaching to the sages of Naimisharanya)