Shloka 78

दारुवनलीला—नीललोहितपरीक्षा, ब्रह्मोपदेशः, अतिथिधर्मः, संन्यासक्रमः

Devanagari script

ततश्चोर्ध्वं चरेदेवं यतिः शिवविमुक्तये व्रतेनानशनेनापि तोयवृत्त्यापि वा पुनः

Transliteration

tataścordhvaṃ caredevaṃ yatiḥ śivavimuktaye vratenānaśanenāpi toyavṛttyāpi vā punaḥ

Translation

اس کے بعد یتی شِو-مُکتی کے لیے اسی طرح رہے—ورت کے ساتھ، یا روزہ/اَنشن کے ساتھ، یا پھر صرف پانی پر گزارا کرکے۔

Word by Word

• tataḥ: thereafter

• ca: and

• ūrdhvam: onward/thereafter

• caret: should practice/should live

• evam: thus/in this manner

• yatiḥ: a renunciant/ascetic

• śiva-vimuktaye: for liberation through Śiva (release by the grace of Pati)

• vratena: by a sacred vow/observance

• anaśanena api: even by fasting

• toya-vṛttyā api: even by living on water as one’s sustenance

• vā: or

• punaḥ: again/furthermore.

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the discipline taught within the Linga Purana’s Shaiva framework)