Shloka 89

ब्रह्मनारायणस्तवः — शिवस्य प्रभवत्व-प्रतिपादनम्

Devanagari script

शिवो नो भव सर्वत्र यो ऽसि सो ऽसि नमो ऽस्तु ते सूत उवाच य इदं कीर्तयेद्भक्त्या ब्रह्मनारायणस्तवम्

Transliteration

śivo no bhava sarvatra yo 'si so 'si namo 'stu te sūta uvāca ya idaṃ kīrtayedbhaktyā brahmanārāyaṇastavam

Translation

愿汝于一切处赐我等吉祥，噢湿婆！汝真实为何，即如是而是；敬礼于汝。苏多曰：凡以虔敬（bhakti）诵此赞颂梵天与那罗延之颂者，得其恩典，使被缚之灵（paśu）因缚索（pāśa）渐松，而趋向主宰（Pati）。

Word by Word

• śivaḥ: auspicious one / Śiva

• naḥ: to us

• bhava: become / be

• sarvatra: everywhere

• yaḥ asi: who you are

• saḥ asi: that you are

• namaḥ astu te: salutations be to you

• sūta uvāca: Sūta said

• yaḥ: whoever

• idam: this

• kīrtayet: should recite / chant

• bhaktyā: with devotion

• brahma-nārāyaṇa-stavam: hymn of praise concerning Brahmā and Nārāyaṇa

Speaker

Suta (narrator; with the preceding hemistich functioning as a concluding salutation within the stava)