Shloka 105
Adhyāya 25 — Liṅga-māhātmya (The Chapter on the Liṅga): Hari’s Śiva-Worship and the Fiery Pillar Theophany
तस्मै भगवते नित्यं नमस्कारं प्रकुर्महे / महादेवाय रुद्राय देवदेवाय लिङ्गिने
tasmai bhagavate nityaṃ namaskāraṃ prakurmahe / mahādevāya rudrāya devadevāya liṅgine
เราทั้งหลายขอนอบน้อมแด่พระภควานนั้นเป็นนิตย์—แด่มหาเทวะ รุทระ เทวเทพ และผู้ทรงลึงค์।
Narrator/reciter within the Purana (contextual devotional praise to Shiva as Supreme Lord)
Primary Rasa: bhakti
Secondary Rasa: shanta
FAQs
By calling Rudra “Bhagavān” and “God of gods,” the verse points to a supreme, worship-worthy Lord beyond all subordinate deities—suggesting an ultimate divine reality worthy of constant remembrance and surrender.
The practice emphasized is nitya-namaskāra—steady, daily reverence. In the Kurma Purana’s spiritual framework, such continual salutation supports concentration (dhāraṇā) and devotion (bhakti), which mature into disciplined inner worship aligned with Pāśupata-oriented Shaiva practice.
Although explicitly praising Shiva as Bhagavān, the Kurma Purana commonly frames sectarian devotion within a larger unity of divinity; this kind of supreme-address to Rudra harmonizes with the Purana’s synthetic approach where the highest Lord is honored through multiple divine names and forms.