Shloka 27

प्रलय-तत्त्वलयः, नीललोहित-रुद्रः, अष्टमूर्तिस्तवः, एवं ब्रह्मणो वैराग्यम्

Devanagari script

नीललोहित इत्युक्तस् तेन देवेन वै प्रभुः ब्रह्मणा भगवान्कालः प्रीतात्मा चाभवद्विभुः

Transliteration

nīlalohita ityuktas tena devena vai prabhuḥ brahmaṇā bhagavānkālaḥ prītātmā cābhavadvibhuḥ

Translation

เมื่อเทพพรหมาเรียกพระองค์ว่า “นีลโลหิต” พระผู้เป็นเจ้าอันแผ่ซ่านทั่ว—ภควานกาละ (พระศิวะ) ก็ทรงยินดีในพระหทัย

Word by Word

• nīla-lohitaḥ: Nīlalohita (the Blue-and-Red One, a Śiva-epithet)

• iti: thus

• uktaḥ: addressed/called

• tena: by him/thereby

• devena: by the god (here, Brahmā)

• vai: indeed

• prabhuḥ: the Lord, master

• brahmaṇā: by Brahmā

• bhagavān: the Blessed Lord

• kālaḥ: Kāla (Time/Death as Śiva’s form)

• prīta-ātmā: pleased in heart, gracious within

• ca: and

• abhavat: became

• vibhuḥ: the all-pervading, omnipotent one

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Brahmā–Śiva episode to the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya)