Shloka 73

दारुवनलीला—नीललोहितपरीक्षा, ब्रह्मोपदेशः, अतिथिधर्मः, संन्यासक्रमः

Devanagari script

पूजयेत् परमात्मानं प्राप्यारण्यं विभावसौ मुनिर्द्वादशवर्षं वा वर्षमात्रम् अथापि वा

Transliteration

pūjayet paramātmānaṃ prāpyāraṇyaṃ vibhāvasau munirdvādaśavarṣaṃ vā varṣamātram athāpi vā

Translation

ครั้นถึงป่าแล้ว มุนีพึงบูชาปรมาตมัน คือศิวะผู้เป็นปติ จะครบสิบสองปีหรือเพียงหนึ่งปีก็ได้

Word by Word

• पूजयेत्: should worship

• परमात्मानम्: the Supreme Self (Paramatman)

• प्राप्य: having reached/attained

• आरण्यम्: the forest (solitary woodland)

• विभावसौ: in the radiant one / in the blazing (i.e., in Agni

• मुनिः: the sage

• द्वादशवर्षम्: twelve years

• वा: or

• वर्षमात्रम्: only one year

• अथापि: even/at least

• वा: or

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the discipline of Shiva-worship to the sages of Naimisharanya)