Shloka 64

मुक्तयतिदेहसंस्काररहस्यं — The Esoteric Rites for the Bodies of Liberated Ascetics

Devanagari script

प्रणवेन ततो दयाद्धूपदीपौ पयोहविः । दत्त्वा प्रदक्षिणीकृत्य नमस्कुर्य्याच्च पंचधा

Transliteration

praṇavena tato dayāddhūpadīpau payohaviḥ | dattvā pradakṣiṇīkṛtya namaskuryyācca paṃcadhā

Translation

Rồi với âm tiết thiêng Pranava “Oṁ”, hãy dâng hương và đèn, và hiến cúng lễ vật bằng sữa. Sau khi dâng cúng, hãy đi nhiễu (pradakṣiṇā) và phủ phục đảnh lễ năm lần.

Word by Word

• praṇavena: with the praṇava (Oṃ)
• praṇavena: Karaṇa (करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: praṇava (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया-विभक्ति (Instrumental), एकवचन

• tataḥ: then
• tataḥ: Kāla (काल/sequence)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tataḥ (अव्यय)
• Form: क्रम/अपादानवाचक-अव्यय (adverb: then/thereafter)

• dadyāt: should give/offer
• dadyāt: Kriya (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: dā (धातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ् (Optative), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन

• dhūpa-dīpau: incense and lamp
• dhūpa-dīpau: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: dhūpa + dīpa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative), द्विवचन; इतरेतर-द्वन्द्वः (incense and lamp)

• payaḥ-haviḥ: milk and oblation
• payaḥ-haviḥ: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: payaḥ + haviḥ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; समाहार-द्वन्द्वः (milk and oblation/food-offering as a set)

• dattvā: having given
• dattvā: Kriya (क्रिया/पूर्वक्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: dā (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वा-प्रत्ययान्त अव्यय (Gerund/Absolutive): having given

• pradakṣiṇīkṛtya: having circumambulated
• pradakṣiṇīkṛtya: Kriya (क्रिया/पूर्वक्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: pradakṣiṇī√kṛ (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वा-प्रत्ययान्त अव्यय (Gerund): having circumambulated (made pradakṣiṇā)

• namaskuryāt: should bow/salute
• namaskuryāt: Kriya (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: namas-√kṛ (धातु)
• Form: विधिलिङ् (Optative), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/conjunction)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयार्थक-अव्यय (conjunction: and)

• paṃcadhā: fivefold / five times
• paṃcadhā: Prakāra (प्रकार)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: paṃcadhā (अव्यय)
• Form: संख्यावाचक-प्रकारवाचक-अव्यय (adverb: in five ways/five times)

Speaker

Suta Goswami

Shaiva Theology

Tattva Level: pashu

Shiva Form: Sadāśiva

Jyotirlinga Context

Significance: Praṇava-led upacāras (dhūpa-dīpa) and milk offering, followed by pradakṣiṇā and pañca-namaskāra, are framed as bhakti and śaraṇāgati that dispose the paśu toward Śiva’s grace (anugraha).

Mantra Metadata

Mantra: oṃ (praṇava)

Type: panchakshara

Shakti Dimension

Role: liberating

Ritual Elements

Offering: dipa

Characters & Entities

• Shiva

FAQs

What is the spiritual significance of this verse in the Shiva Purana?

It teaches that Shiva-puja is completed through mantra (Praṇava), offering (upacāra), and humble surrender—circumambulation and repeated prostration—so devotion becomes embodied, not merely verbal.

How does this verse relate to the worship of the Linga or Saguna Shiva?

Incense, lamp, and milk are classic upacāras offered to the Shiva-Linga, the accessible Saguna form through which the devotee approaches the transcendent Pati (Shiva) with reverence and purity.

What ritualistic or meditative practice is suggested here?

Chant Oṁ (and commonly the Panchākṣarī, Om Namaḥ Śivāya), offer dhūpa and dīpa, perform pradakṣiṇā, and do five prostrations as a disciplined sequence of Shiva worship.