Shloka 28

Varaha-Pradurbhava Context: Prahlada’s Bhakti, Narasimha’s Ugra-Form, and Shiva’s Sharabha Intervention

Devanagari script

भवानेव जगत्सर्वं प्रलापेन किमीश्वर मायया बहुधा संस्थम् अद्वितीयमयं प्रभो

Transliteration

bhavāneva jagatsarvaṃ pralāpena kimīśvara māyayā bahudhā saṃstham advitīyamayaṃ prabho

Translation

唯你是整个宇宙。主啊，又何必多言？凭你的幻力（Māyā），你似乎安立为种种形相；而在真实中，你本性是一无二的唯一者，噢普拉布（Prabhu）。

Word by Word

• भवान् (bhavān): You

• एव (eva): alone/indeed

• जगत् (jagat): universe

• सर्वम् (sarvam): all

• प्रलापेन (pralāpena): by talk/idle speech/disputation

• किम् (kim): what (use/need)?

• ईश्वर (īśvara): O Lord

• मायया (māyayā): by Māyā (divine concealing/projecting power)

• बहुधा (bahudhā): in many ways/manifoldly

• संस्थम् (saṁstham): situated/established/appearing as

• अद्वितीयमयम् (advitīya-mayam): consisting of non-duality, without a second

• प्रभो (prabho): O Master/Lord

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating a devotee’s praise within the Purva-Bhaga dialogue framework)