Shloka 4

व्यपोहनस्तवनिरूपण-प्रसङ्गे नक्तभोजन-शिवव्रतविधिः (वार्षिक-प्रतिमास-क्रमः)

Devanagari script

वर्षमेकं तु भुञ्जानो नक्तं यः पूजयेच्छिवम् सर्वयज्ञफलं प्राप्य स याति परमां गतिम्

Transliteration

varṣamekaṃ tu bhuñjāno naktaṃ yaḥ pūjayecchivam sarvayajñaphalaṃ prāpya sa yāti paramāṃ gatim

Translation

ผู้ใดตลอดหนึ่งปีบริโภคเพียงนกตะ (ฉันในยามค่ำ) แล้วบูชาพระศิวะ ผู้นั้นย่อมได้ผลแห่งยัญทั้งปวง และบรรลุคติอันสูงสุด

Word by Word

• वर्षम् (varṣam): for a year

• एकम् (ekam): one

• तु (tu): indeed

• भुञ्जानः (bhuñjānaḥ): eating/sustaining oneself

• नक्तम् (naktam): at night only (night-meal vow)

• यः (yaḥ): who

• पूजयेत् (pūjayet): should worship

• शिवम् (śivam): Śiva, the auspicious Lord

• सर्व-यज्ञ-फलम् (sarva-yajña-phalam): the result of all Vedic sacrifices

• प्राप्य (prāpya): having attained

• सः (saḥ): he

• याति (yāti): goes/attains

• परमाम् (paramām): supreme

• गतिम् (gatim): state, goal (liberation).

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)