Shloka 24

लिङ्गार्चनपूर्वकं स्नानाचमनविधिः

Snana–Achamana as Preparation for Linga-Archana

Devanagari script

शान्तिधर्मेण चैकेन पञ्चब्रह्मपवित्रकैः तत्तन्मन्त्राधिदेवानां स्वरूपं च ऋषीन् स्मरन्

Transliteration

śāntidharmeṇa caikena pañcabrahmapavitrakaiḥ tattanmantrādhidevānāṃ svarūpaṃ ca ṛṣīn smaran

Translation

เมื่อปฏิบัติศานติธรรมเพียงหนึ่งเดียว และอาศัยพิธีชำระแห่งปัญจพรหมะ พึงระลึกถึงรูปแท้ของเทวะผู้เป็นประธานแห่งมนตร์นั้นๆ และพึงรำลึกถึงฤๅษีผู้เกี่ยวข้อง

Word by Word

• शान्तिधर्मेण: by the discipline of peace/pacification

• च: and

• एकेन: by the single/one (method)

• पञ्चब्रह्मपवित्रकैः: with the purifiers/holy rites connected to the Pañcabrahma (fivefold Brahman aspects of Śiva)

• तत्तत्: each respective

• मन्त्र-अधिदेवानाम्: of the presiding deities of the mantras

• स्वरूपम्: essential form/nature

• च: and

• ऋषीन्: the seers

• स्मरन्: remembering/keeping in mind

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Linga-puja vidhi to the sages at Naimisharanya)