Shloka 36
Varaha-Pradurbhava Context: Prahlada’s Bhakti, Narasimha’s Ugra-Form, and Shiva’s Sharabha Intervention
Devanagari script
उग्रो ऽसि सर्वभूतानां नियन्तासि शिवो ऽसि नः नमः शिवाय शर्वाय शङ्करायार्त्तिहारिणे
Transliteration
ugro 'si sarvabhūtānāṃ niyantāsi śivo 'si naḥ namaḥ śivāya śarvāya śaṅkarāyārttihāriṇe
Translation
उग्रोऽसि सर्वभूतानां नियन्तासि शिवोऽसि नः। नमः शिवाय शर्वाय शङ्करायार्त्तिहारिणे॥
Word by Word
ugraḥ asiYou are fierce/terrible (in dissolving evil)
ugraḥ asi:
sarva-bhūtānāmof all beings
sarva-bhūtānām:
niyantā asiYou are the controller/inner ruler
niyantā asi:
śivaḥ asi naḥYou are Śiva (the auspicious one) to us
śivaḥ asi naḥ:
namaḥsalutations
namaḥ:
śivāyato Śiva
śivāya:
śarvāyato Śarva (the destroyer of impurities)
śarvāya:
śaṅkarāyato Śaṅkara (giver of auspiciousness)
śaṅkarāya:
ārtti-hāriṇeto the remover of distress/affliction
ārtti-hāriṇe:
Speaker
Suta Goswami (narrating a received Shiva-stuti within the Linga Purana’s chapter context)