ईश्वर उवाच । प्रणवः सर्वदेवानामादिरेष प्रकीर्तितः । ब्रह्मा विष्णुः शिवश्चैव वसंति दयितायुताः
īśvara uvāca | praṇavaḥ sarvadevānāmādireṣa prakīrtitaḥ | brahmā viṣṇuḥ śivaścaiva vasaṃti dayitāyutāḥ
Īśvara phán: “Praṇava (Oṃ) được tôn xưng là cội nguồn nguyên sơ của mọi chư thiên. Trong đó ngự Brahmā, Viṣṇu và Śiva nữa, cùng với các hiền phối yêu dấu của các Ngài.”
Īśvara (Śiva)
Listener: Pārvatī
Scene: Īśvara explains the cosmic status of Oṃ: within the praṇava reside Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva and their consorts, as if the syllable is a luminous mandala containing the pantheon.
Oṃ (Praṇava) is upheld as the primordial spiritual principle in which the major deities are understood to abide.
This verse is doctrinal within the Tīrthamāhātmya context; the specific tīrtha is not named in this shloka.
Implicitly, reverence for Praṇava is taught; no explicit vrata, dāna, or snāna is prescribed in this verse.
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