Shloka 36

उमामहेश्वरव्रतं—पञ्चाक्षरमन्त्रस्य माहात्म्यं, न्यासः, जपविधिः, सदाचारः, विनियोगः

Devanagari script

मन्त्रः स्थितः सदा मुख्यो लोके पञ्चाक्षरो मतः किं तस्य बहुभिर् मन्त्रैः शास्त्रैर्वा बहुविस्तृतैः

Transliteration

mantraḥ sthitaḥ sadā mukhyo loke pañcākṣaro mataḥ kiṃ tasya bahubhir mantraiḥ śāstrairvā bahuvistṛtaiḥ

Translation

ในโลกนี้ มนต์ห้าพยางค์ถือว่าเป็นประธานเสมอ. ผู้ใดมีมนต์นั้นแล้ว จะต้องการมนต์มากมายอื่นใด หรือคัมภีร์ที่พิสดารยืดยาวไปเพื่ออะไร?

Word by Word

• मन्त्रः: mantra

• स्थितः: established/abiding

• सदा: always

• मुख्यः: chief, foremost

• लोके: in the world

• पञ्चाक्षरः: the five-syllabled (mantra—Namaḥ Śivāya)

• मतः: considered, held to be

• किम्: what (need?)

• तस्य: for him/of that one

• बहुभिः: with many

• मन्त्रैः: mantras

• शास्त्रैः: treatises/scriptures

• वा: or

• बहुविस्तृतैः: extensively elaborated, very detailed

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Linga Purana’s Shaiva teaching to the sages of Naimisharanya)