कल्पलिंगं महादेवि पूजितं देवदानवैः । छायापुत्रेण संतप्तं तपः परमदुष्करम्
kalpaliṃgaṃ mahādevi pūjitaṃ devadānavaiḥ | chāyāputreṇa saṃtaptaṃ tapaḥ paramaduṣkaram
اے مہادیوی، یہ کلپ لِنگ ہے جس کی پوجا دیوتاؤں اور دانَووں نے کی۔ چھایا کے پتر نے وہاں نہایت دشوار تپسیا کی، سخت ریاضت کی تپش میں جلتا ہوا۔
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Kalpa-liṅga / Śanaiścaraiśvara complex
Type: temple
Listener: Devī
Scene: A powerful ascetic tableau: the Kalpa-liṅga in a shrine or open sanctum, devas and dānavas offering worship together; Śani (Chāyā-putra) performing fierce tapas—dark-hued, austere, emaciated, surrounded by heat-haze—yet oriented toward the liṅga.
Even powerful cosmic beings attain their station through severe tapas and devotion at Śiva’s liṅga in a sacred kṣetra.
Kalpa-liṅga / Śanaiścaraiśvara shrine within Prabhāsakṣetra.
Tapas (austerity) is referenced as the practice undertaken by Chāyā’s son (Śanaiścara).