Shloka 9

विष्णुचक्रलाभो नाम (अर्धनारीश्वर-तत्त्वं, सती-पार्वती-सम्भवः, दक्षयज्ञविनाशः)

Devanagari script

प्राहिणोति स्म तस्यैव ज्ञानं ज्ञानमयो हरः विश्वाधिको ऽसौ भगवान् अर्धनारीश्वरो विभुः

Transliteration

prāhiṇoti sma tasyaiva jñānaṃ jñānamayo haraḥ viśvādhiko 'sau bhagavān ardhanārīśvaro vibhuḥ

Translation

प्राहिणोति स्म तस्यैव ज्ञानं ज्ञानमयो हरः। विश्वाधिकोऽसौ भगवानर्धनारीश्वरो विभुः॥

Word by Word

• प्राहिणोति स्म: sent forth / transmitted

• तस्य एव: to him alone, indeed

• ज्ञानम्: knowledge (saving gnosis)

• ज्ञानमयः: constituted of knowledge, of the nature of consciousness

• हरः: Hara (Shiva, the remover)

• विश्वाधिकः: beyond the universe, transcending the cosmos

• असौ: that (very one)

• भगवान्: the Blessed Lord

• अर्धनारीश्वरः: Ardhanārīśvara (Shiva-Shakti in one form)

• विभुः: all-pervading, sovereign

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Purana; reporting Shiva’s bestowal of jnana within the embedded narrative)