Shloka 16

व्यपोहनस्तवनिरूपण-प्रसङ्गे नक्तभोजन-शिवव्रतविधिः (वार्षिक-प्रतिमास-क्रमः)

Devanagari script

भूमिशय्यां च मासान्ते पौर्णमास्यां घृतादिभिः स्नाप्य रुद्रं महादेवं सम्पूज्य विधिपूर्वकम्

Transliteration

bhūmiśayyāṃ ca māsānte paurṇamāsyāṃ ghṛtādibhiḥ snāpya rudraṃ mahādevaṃ sampūjya vidhipūrvakam

Translation

भूमिशय्यां च मासान्ते पौर्णमास्यां घृतादिभिः। स्नाप्य रुद्रं महादेवं सम्पूज्य विधिपूर्वकम्॥

Word by Word

• bhūmiśayyām: on a bed of earth/lying on the ground (austerity-vow)

• ca: and

• māsānte: at the end of the month

• paurṇamāsyām: on the full-moon day

• ghṛtādibhiḥ: with ghee and similar substances

• snāpya: having bathed/abluted

• rudram: Rudra

• mahādevam: Mahādeva (the Great Lord)

• sampūjya: having fully worshipped

• vidhi-pūrvakam: according to rule/with due procedure

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating traditional Shiva-puja observances to the sages of Naimisharanya)