Shloka 32

Adhyaya 89: शौचाचारलक्षणम् — सदाचार, भैक्ष्यचर्या, प्रायश्चित्त, द्रव्यशुद्धि, आशौच-निर्णय

Devanagari script

सलुततिओन् ओफ़् सुपेरिओर्स् पितामहेनोपदिष्टो धर्मः साक्षात्सनातनः सर्वलोकोपकारार्थं शृणुध्वं प्रवदामि वः

Transliteration

salutation of superiors pitāmahenopadiṣṭo dharmaḥ sākṣātsanātanaḥ sarvalokopakārārthaṃ śṛṇudhvaṃ pravadāmi vaḥ

Translation

पितामहेनोपदिष्टो धर्मः साक्षात् सनातनः। सर्वलोकोपकारार्थं शृणुध्वं प्रवदामि वः॥

Word by Word

• pitāmahena: by Pitāmaha (Brahmā)

• upadiṣṭaḥ: taught/instructed

• dharmaḥ: dharma, righteous order

• sākṣāt: directly, in person/as it truly is

• sanātanaḥ: eternal

• sarva-loka-upakāra-artham: for the purpose of benefiting all worlds

• śṛṇudhvaṃ: listen (all of you)

• pravadāmi: I declare/I expound

• vaḥ: to you

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages; introducing Brahmā-taught Dharma within the Shaiva framework)