Shloka 4

Adhyaya 71: पुरत्रयवृत्तान्तः—ब्रह्मवरदानम्, मयकृतत्रिपुर-निर्माणम्, विष्णुमाया-धर्मविघ्नः, शिवस्तुति, त्रिपुरदाहोपक्रमः

Devanagari script

कथं ददाह भगवान् भगनेत्रनिपातनः एकेनेषुनिपातेन दिव्येनापि तदा कथम्

Transliteration

kathaṃ dadāha bhagavān bhaganetranipātanaḥ ekeneṣunipātena divyenāpi tadā katham

Translation

कथं ददाह भगवान् भगनेत्रनिपातनः । एकेनेषुनिपातेन दिव्येनापि तदा कथम् ॥

Word by Word

• कथम्: how?

• ददाह: burned/consumed

• भगवान्: the Blessed Lord (Pati, Shiva)

• भगनेत्रनिपातनः: the one who caused the fall of Bhaga’s eye

• एकेन: by one/single

• इषु-निपातेन: by the descent/impact of an arrow

• दिव्येन अपि: even though (it was) divine/supernatural

• तदा: then/at that time

• कथम्: how (indeed)?

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya; voicing the inquiry within the episode)