Shloka 141

देवैर्विष्णोः शरणागमनम्—शिवलिङ्गस्थापनं, शिवसहस्रनामस्तवः, सुदर्शनचक्रप्रदानं च

Devanagari script

भूतभव्यभवन्नाथः प्रभवो भ्रान्तिनाशनः अर्थो ऽनर्थो महाकोशः परकार्यैकपण्डितः

Transliteration

bhūtabhavyabhavannāthaḥ prabhavo bhrāntināśanaḥ artho 'nartho mahākośaḥ parakāryaikapaṇḍitaḥ

Translation

स भूतभव्यभवन्नाथः, प्रभवः भ्रान्तिनाशनः। अर्थोऽनर्थश्च, महाकोशः; परकार्यैकपण्डितः—परहितसाधने परमविद्वान्।

Word by Word

• भूत (bhūta): the past/what has been

• भव्य (bhavya): the future/what is to be

• भवत् (bhavat): the present/what is

• नाथः (nāthaḥ): Lord, protector (Pati)

• प्रभवः (prabhavaḥ): origin, source, supreme cause

• भ्रान्ति (bhrānti): delusion, भ्रम

• नाशनः (nāśanaḥ): destroyer, remover

• अर्थः (arthaḥ): meaning, purpose, true value

• अनर्थः (anarthaḥ): what is purposeless, misfortune/that which seems meaningless

• महाकोशः (mahākośaḥ): great treasury, vast storehouse

• परकार्य (parakārya): the work/welfare of others

• एक (eka): alone, singularly

• पण्डितः (paṇḍitaḥ): wise one, adept, knower

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Shiva Sahasranama within the Linga Purana discourse)