Shloka 26

Muñjavān on Himavat: Maheśvara’s abode, Śiva-stuti, and sacrificial gold

Chapter 8

Devanagari script

सहस्रशिरसे चैव सहस्नरचरणाय च । नम: स्वधास्वरूपाय बहुरूपाय दंष्टिणे

Transliteration

sahasraśirase caiva sahasracaraṇāya ca | namaḥ svadhā-svarūpāya bahurūpāya daṃṣṭriṇe ||

Translation

सहस्रशिरसे चैव सहस्रचरणाय च । नमः स्वधास्वरूपाय बहुरूपाय दंष्टिणे ॥

Word by Word

• सहस्रशिरसे: to (the one) of a thousand heads
• सहस्रशिरसे: Sampradana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सहस्रशिरस्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Dative, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• एव: indeed/also
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव

• सहस्रचरणाय: to (the one) of a thousand feet
• सहस्रचरणाय: Sampradana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सहस्रचरण
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Dative, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• नमः: salutation
• Type: Noun
• Root: नमस्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• स्वधास्वरूपाय: to (him) whose nature is Svadhā
• स्वधास्वरूपाय: Sampradana
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: स्वधास्वरूप
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Dative, Singular

• बहुरूपाय: to the many-formed one
• बहुरूपाय: Sampradana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: बहुरूप
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Dative, Singular

• दंष्टिणे: to the tusked one
• दंष्टिणे: Sampradana
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: दंष्टिन्
• Form: Masculine, Dative, Singular

Speaker

संवर्त उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Saṃvarta
• Svadhā

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse teaches reverence for the divine as simultaneously cosmic (innumerable heads and feet), ritually present (as Svadhā, the ancestral oblation), and powerful (fanged). Ethical life is implied to rest on honoring both universal order and concrete duties such as rites for ancestors.

What is happening in the narrative?

Saṃvarta is offering a praise-salutation (namas) using exalted epithets. The speech functions as a devotional invocation, identifying the addressed deity as all-pervading and multiform, including a form connected to ancestral rites.