Shloka 136

देवैर्विष्णोः शरणागमनम्—शिवलिङ्गस्थापनं, शिवसहस्रनामस्तवः, सुदर्शनचक्रप्रदानं च

Devanagari script

वेधा धाता विधाता च अत्ता हर्ता चतुर्मुखः कैलासशिखरावासी सर्वावासी सतां गतिः

Transliteration

vedhā dhātā vidhātā ca attā hartā caturmukhaḥ kailāsaśikharāvāsī sarvāvāsī satāṃ gatiḥ

Translation

वेधा धाता विधाता च अत्ता हर्ता चतुर्मुखः। कैलासशिखरावासी सर्वावासी सतां गतिः॥

Word by Word

• वेधा (vedhā): ordainer, arranger of destiny

• धाता (dhātā): sustainer, supporter

• विधाता (vidhātā): disposer, apportioner

• च (ca): and

• अत्ता (attā): eater, enjoyer/consumer (of offerings and of time)

• हर्ता (hartā): remover, withdrawer (of worlds/bondage)

• चतुर्मुखः (caturmukhaḥ): four-faced one (all-seeing, fourfold cognition)

• कैलासशिखरावासी (kailāsa-śikhara-āvāsī): dweller on the peak of Kailāsa

• सर्वावासी (sarvāvāsī): indweller in all, omnipresent

• सतां (satām): of the virtuous/true ones

• गतिः (gatiḥ): goal, refuge, final attainment

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Shiva-Sahasranama to the sages of Naimisharanya)