Shloka 62

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

Devanagari script

न्यस्यते यत्तदुत्पत्तिर् विपरीतं तु संहृतिः अङ्गुष्ठादिकनिष्ठान्तं न्यस्यते हस्तयोर् द्वयोः

Transliteration

nyasyate yattadutpattir viparītaṃ tu saṃhṛtiḥ aṅguṣṭhādikaniṣṭhāntaṃ nyasyate hastayor dvayoḥ

Translation

Ang inilalagak sa nyāsa sa pasulong na ayos ay tanda ng utpatti (paglitaw o paglalang ng Panginoon); at ang pabaligtad na ayos ay tanda ng saṃhṛti (pag-urong at muling paglusaw). Mula hinlalaki hanggang kalingkingan, isagawa ang nyāsa sa dalawang kamay.

Word by Word

• nyasyate: is placed/installed (by ritual nyāsa)

• yat: that which/whatever

• tat: that

• utpattiḥ: origination, manifestation, creation

• viparītam: reversed, in the opposite order

• tu: and/but

• saṃhṛtiḥ: withdrawal, dissolution, reabsorption

• aṅguṣṭha: thumb

• ādi: beginning with

• kaniṣṭhāntaṃ: ending with the little finger

• nyasyate: is to be placed

• hastayoḥ: on the two hands

• dvayoḥ: of both

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Linga-puja and nyasa procedure to the sages of Naimisharanya)