Shloka 155

Adhyaya 72 — Puradāha: Rudra’s Cosmic Chariot, Pāśupata-Vrata, and Brahmā’s Shiva-Stuti

Devanagari script

कृतो रथश्चेषुवरश् च शुभ्रं शरसनं ते त्रिपुरक्षयाय अनेकयत्नैश् च मयाथ तुभ्यं फलं न दृष्टं सुरसिद्धसंघैः

Transliteration

kṛto rathaśceṣuvaraś ca śubhraṃ śarasanaṃ te tripurakṣayāya anekayatnaiś ca mayātha tubhyaṃ phalaṃ na dṛṣṭaṃ surasiddhasaṃghaiḥ

Translation

कृतो रथश्चेषुवरश्च शुभ्रं शरसनं ते त्रिपुरक्षयाय। अनेकयत्नैश्च मयाथ तुभ्यं फलं न दृष्टं सुरसिद्धसंघैः॥

Word by Word

• कृतः: prepared/made

• रथः: chariot

• च: and

• इषुवरः: excellent arrows (best of missiles)

• च: and

• शुभ्रम्: brilliant/bright

• शरासनम्: bow (lit. ‘seat/support of arrows’)

• ते: for you/your

• त्रिपुरक्षयाय: for the destruction of Tripura

• अनेकयत्नैः: with many efforts

• च: and

• मया: by me

• अथ: then/indeed

• तुभ्यम्: for you

• फलम्: result/fruit

• न: not

• दृष्टम्: seen/obtained

• सुरसिद्धसंघैः: by the assemblages of Devas and Siddhas

Speaker

Brahma (within Suta’s narration to the sages at Naimisharanya)