Shloka 29

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

Devanagari script

सुशोभमानो वरदः सम्प्रेक्ष्यैव च सारथिम् तस्मिन्नारोहति रथं कल्पितं लोकसंभृतम्

Transliteration

suśobhamāno varadaḥ samprekṣyaiva ca sārathim tasminnārohati rathaṃ kalpitaṃ lokasaṃbhṛtam

Translation

सुशोभमानो वरदः सम्प्रेक्ष्यैव च सारथिम्। तस्मिन्नारोहति रथं कल्पितं लोकसंभृतम्॥

Word by Word

• सुशोभमानः: shining, resplendent

• वरदः: the boon-giver (the Lord)

• सम्प्रेक्ष्य एव: having merely looked/glanced

• च: and

• सारथिम्: the charioteer

• तस्मिन्: upon that (chariot)

• आरोहति: mounts, ascends

• रथम्: chariot

• कल्पितम्: fashioned, magically constructed/ordained

• लोकसंभृतम्: sustained/upheld by the worlds (supported by cosmic order).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)