Shloka 16

Upamanyu’s Tapas, Shiva’s Indra-Form Test, and the Bestowal of Kshiroda and Gaṇapatya

Devanagari script

तदेव लभ्यं नान्यत्तु विष्णुमुद्यम्य वा प्रभुम् निशम्य वचनं मातुर् उपमन्युर्महाद्युतिः

Transliteration

tadeva labhyaṃ nānyattu viṣṇumudyamya vā prabhum niśamya vacanaṃ mātur upamanyurmahādyutiḥ

Translation

“Iyon lamang ang dapat makamtan—wala nang iba.” Nang marinig ang mga salita ng kanyang ina, si Upamanyu na may dakilang ningning ay nagpasiyang hanapin ang Panginoon, si Viṣṇu, at inialay ang pagsisikap tungo sa Kataas-taasan.

Word by Word

• tad eva: that alone

• labhyam: is attainable / to be obtained

• na anyat tu: and not anything else

• viṣṇum: Vishnu

• udyamya: having undertaken / exerting himself

• vā: indeed / as for

• prabhum: the Lord, the Master

• niśamya: having heard

• vacanam: the statement, instruction

• mātuḥ: of (his) mother

• upamanyuḥ: Upamanyu

• mahā-dyutiḥ: of great radiance/splendor

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Upamanyu episode within the Linga Purana’s Shaiva framework)