Shloka 103

Shivamurti–Pratishtha Phala: Shivalaya-Nirmana, Kshetra-Mahatmya, Tirtha-Snana, and Mandala-Vidhi

Devanagari script

तत्र भुक्त्वा महाभोगान् कल्पकोटिशतं नरः स्वदेहगन्धकुसुमैः पूरयञ्छिवमन्दिरम्

Transliteration

tatra bhuktvā mahābhogān kalpakoṭiśataṃ naraḥ svadehagandhakusumaiḥ pūrayañchivamandiram

Translation

तत्र नरः कल्पकोटिशतं महाभोगान् भुक्त्वा, स्वदेहगन्धकुसुमैः शिवमन्दिरं पूरयन् विराजते।

Word by Word

• तत्र: there (in that Śiva-dhāma)

• भुक्त्वा: having enjoyed/experienced

• महाभोगान्: great enjoyments, sublime pleasures

• कल्पकोटिशतम्: for hundreds of crores of kalpas (vast aeons)

• नरः: the person (devotee/soul as pashu)

• स्वदेह: of one’s own body

• गन्ध: fragrance

• कुसुमैः: with flowers/blossoms

• पूरयन्: filling, saturating

• शिवमन्दिरम्: Śiva’s temple

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)