Shloka 3

Aghora-Mantra Japa: Graded Expiations, Pañcagavya Purification, and Homa for Mahāpātaka-Nivṛtti

Devanagari script

ब्रह्महत्यादिकान् घोरांस् तथान्यानपि पातकान् हीनांश्चैव महाभाग तथैव विविधान्यपि

Transliteration

brahmahatyādikān ghorāṃs tathānyānapi pātakān hīnāṃścaiva mahābhāga tathaiva vividhānyapi

Translation

贤善者啊，此湿婆之修持能摧灭可怖之罪，始于梵杀罪（brahma-hatyā），并及其他诸过——或轻或重、或卑或杂——斩断系缚有情（paśu）之缚（pāśa），令其转向主宰（Pati）湿婆。

Word by Word

• ब्रह्महत्यादिकान्: sins beginning with brahma-hatyā (killing a brāhmaṇa)

• घोरान्: dreadful/terrible

• तथा: and likewise

• अन्यान्: other

• अपि: also

• पातकान्: sins/transgressions

• हीनान्: lesser/inferior/minor

• च एव: and indeed

• महाभाग: O greatly fortunate one

• तथा एव: just so/likewise

• विविधानि: various/manifold

• अपि: also

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages at Naimisharanya; internal addressee implied as a revered interlocutor, 'mahābhāga')