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Shloka 1146

Atithi-satkāra and the Consolation of Wise Counsel (अतिथिसत्कारः प्रज्ञानवचनस्य च पराश्वासनम्)

नारायण: स विश्वात्मा तेनास्य शितिकण्ठता । यह देख रुद्र तपस्यामें लगे हुए उन ऋषियोंपर टूट पड़े। तब विश्वात्मा नारायणने अपने हाथसे उन आक्रमणकारी रुद्रदेवका गला पकड़ लिया। इसीसे उनका कण्ठ नीला हो जानेके कारण वे “नीलकण्ठ' के नामसे प्रसिद्ध हुए

nārāyaṇaḥ sa viśvātmā tenāsya śitikaṇṭhatā |

“那罗延(Nārāyaṇa),遍满宇宙的至我,在鲁陀罗冲来欲袭击正行苦行的仙人时,以手扼住其喉。因那一扼使其喉色转为深蓝,鲁陀罗自此以‘尼罗迦ṇṭha’(Nīlakaṇṭha,蓝喉者)之名而著称。”

नारायणःNarayana
नारायणः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootनारायण
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
सःhe
सः:
Karta
TypePronoun
Rootतद्
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
विश्वात्माthe universal self
विश्वात्मा:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootविश्वात्मन्
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
तेनby that; thereby
तेन:
Karana
TypePronoun
Rootतद्
FormMasculine/Neuter, Instrumental, Singular
अस्यof him
अस्य:
Adhikarana
TypePronoun
Rootइदम्
FormMasculine/Neuter, Genitive, Singular
शितिकण्ठताthe state of being blue-throated (Śitikaṇṭha-hood)
शितिकण्ठता:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootशितिकण्ठता
FormFeminine, Nominative, Singular

तामिन्द्र उवाच गच्छ नहुषस्त्वया वाच्योथ<पूर्वेण मामृषियुक्तेन यानेन त्वमधिरूढ

N
Nārāyaṇa
V
Viśvātmā (epithet of Nārāyaṇa)
R
Rudra (Śiva)
N
Nīlakaṇṭha (epithet of Rudra/Śiva)
Ṛṣis (sages engaged in tapas)

Educational Q&A

Dharma includes safeguarding those devoted to spiritual discipline (tapas) and curbing destructive power when it turns against the innocent. Even formidable divine force (Rudra) is shown as subject to the higher order upheld by the universal Self (Nārāyaṇa).

Rudra, in a fierce surge, attacks sages absorbed in austerities. Nārāyaṇa intervenes, seizes Rudra by the throat, and the resulting dark-blue throat becomes the etiological reason for Rudra’s epithet “Nīlakaṇṭha.”