Shloka 20

Adhyaya 63: Daksha’s Progeny, Kashyapa’s Offspring, and the Rishi-Vamshas that Sustain the Worlds

Devanagari script

प्रत्यूषश् च प्रभासश् च वसवो ऽष्टौ प्रकीर्तिताः अजैकपाद् अहिर्बुध्न्यो विरूपाक्षः सभैरवः

Transliteration

pratyūṣaś ca prabhāsaś ca vasavo 'ṣṭau prakīrtitāḥ ajaikapād ahirbudhnyo virūpākṣaḥ sabhairavaḥ

Translation

Si Pratyūṣa at si Prabhāsa ay ipinahayag na kabilang sa walong Vasu. Gayundin, sina Ajaikapād, Ahirbudhnya, Virūpākṣa, at ang nakapanghihilakbot na Bhairava ay ibinibilang sa pangkat ng mga Rudra—mga banal na kapangyarihang kumikilos sa ilalim ni Pati (Śiva) sa kaayusan ng sansinukob.

Word by Word

• प्रत्यूषः: Pratyūṣa (a Vasu, deity of dawn)

• च: and

• प्रभासः: Prabhāsa (a Vasu, deity of radiance)

• च: and

• वसवः: the Vasus (a class of eight deities)

• अष्टौ: eight

• प्रकीर्तिताः: are proclaimed/celebrated

• अजैकपाद्: Ajaikapād (a Rudra-name, 'the one-footed unborn')

• अहिर्बुध्न्यः: Ahirbudhnya (a Rudra-name, 'serpent of the deep/foundation')

• विरूपाक्षः: Virūpākṣa (a Rudra-name, 'the many/strange-eyed')

• स-भैरवः: together with Bhairava / the formidable Bhairava

Speaker

Suta Goswami