Shloka 59

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

Devanagari script

प्रसंगाद्वारमेकं तु शिवतीर्थे ऽवगाह्य च मृतः स्वयं द्विजश्रेष्ठा गाणपत्यमवाप्तवान्

Transliteration

prasaṃgādvāramekaṃ tu śivatīrthe 'vagāhya ca mṛtaḥ svayaṃ dvijaśreṣṭhā gāṇapatyamavāptavān

Translation

प्रसङ्गाद् द्वारमेकं तु शिवतीर्थेऽवगाह्य च । तत्रैव निधनं प्राप्य द्विजश्रेष्ठो गणपत्यमवाप्तवान् ॥

Word by Word

• प्रसंगात्: by occasion/incidentally

• द्वारम्: gateway/entrance

• एकम्: one/single

• तु: indeed

• शिवतीर्थे: in the sacred ford of Śiva

• अवगाह्य: having immersed/bathed

• च: and

• मृतः: having died

• स्वयम्: himself/thereupon

• द्विजश्रेष्ठः: the best among the twice-born (Brahmin)

• गाणपत्यम्: the state of being among the Gaṇas (Śiva’s attendants)

• अवाप्तवान्: attained/obtained

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)