pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: अपि कीट: पतङ्गो वा भवेयं शङ्कराज्ञया। न तु शक्र त्वया दत्तं त्रैलोक्यमपि कामये॥
English: Ordered by Mahadeva I shall cheerfully become a worm or an insect, but I do not desire for even the sovereignty of the three worlds if bestowed by you, O Shakra.
Sanskrit: श्वापि महेश्वरवचनाद् भवामि स हि नः परः कामः। त्रिदशगणराज्यमपि खलु नेच्छाभ्यमहेश्वराज्ञप्तम्।।
English: At the word, of Hara I would become even a dog. In fact, that is my highest wish. If not given by Maheshvara, I would not have the sovereignty of the very gods.
Sanskrit: इन्द्र उवाच न नाकपृष्ठं न च देवराज्यं न ब्रह्मलोकं न च निष्फलत्वम्। न सर्वकामानखिलान् वृणोमि हरस्य दासत्वमहं वृणोमि॥
English: Indra said I do no wish to have this celestial dominion. I do not desire to have the sovereignty of the gods. I do not wish to have the region of Brahman. Indeed, I do not wish to have that extinction of individual existence which is called Liberation and which is a complete oneness with Brahma. But I want to become the slave of Hara.
Sanskrit: उपमन्युरुवाच न प्रीयते पशुपतिर्भगवान् ममेशः। १ःखानि देहविहितानि समुद्वहामि।।१८९
English: As long as that Lord of all creatures, the illustrious Mahesha with crown on his head and body white like the lunar disc, does not become pleased with me, so long shall I cheerfully bear all those miseries consequent upon a hundred repetitions of decrepitude, death and birth, which embodied beings come by.
Sanskrit: दिवसकरशशाङ्कराह्रिदीप्तं त्रिभुवनसारमसारमाद्यमेकम्। अजरममरमप्रसाद्य रुद्रं जगति पुमानिह को लभेत शान्तिम्॥
English: What persons in the universe can acquire tranquility without pleasing Rudra who is freed from decrepitude and death, who is effulgent like the Sun, the Moon, or the Fire, who is the root or original cause of everything real and unreal in the three worlds, and who exists as the one indivisible?
Sanskrit: यदि नाम जन्म भूयो अवति मदीयैः पुनर्दोषैः। तस्मिंस्तस्मिञ्जन्मनि भवे भवेन्मेऽक्षया भक्तिः॥
English: If on account of any faults, I come by rebirths, I shall, in those new births, devote myself solely to Bhava.
Sanskrit: शक्र उवाच कः पुनर्भवने हेतुरीशे कारणकारणे। येन शर्वादृतेऽन्यस्मात् प्रसादं नाभिकाक्षसि॥
English: Shakra said What are your grounds for the existence of a Supreme Being or for His being the cause of all causes?
Sanskrit: उपमन्युरुवाच सदसद् व्यक्तमव्यक्तं यमाहुर्ब्रह्मवादिनः। नित्यकमनेकं च वरं तस्माद् वृणीमहे॥
English: Upamanyu said I beg boons from Him whom Brahmavadins have described as existent and nonexistent, manifest and unmanifest, eternal or immutable, One and many.
Sanskrit: अनादिमध्यपर्यन्तं ज्ञानैश्चर्यमचिन्तितम्। आत्मानं परमं यस्माद् वरं तस्माद् वृणीमहे॥
English: I beg boons from Him who is without beginning and middle and end, who is Knowledge and Power, who is inconceivable and who is the Supreme Soul.
Sanskrit: ऐश्वर्यं सकलं यस्मादनुत्पादितमव्ययम्। अबीजाद् बीजसम्भूतं वरं तस्माद् वृणीमहे॥
English: I pray for boons from Him whence is all Power who has not been produced by and one, who is immutable, and who, though himself not sprung from any seed, is the seed of all things in the universe.
Sanskrit: तमसः परमं ज्योतिस्तपस्तवृत्तिनां परम्। यं ज्ञात्वा नानुशोचन्ति वरं तस्माद् वृणीमहे ॥
English: I pray for boons from Him who is above the quality of Darkness, who is blazing Effulgence, who is the essence of all penances, who is above all our faculties and which we may devote for the purpose of comprehending him, and by knowing whom every one becomes liberated from grief or sorrow.
Sanskrit: भूतभावनभावज्ञं सर्वभूताभिभावनम्। सर्वगं सर्वदं देवं पूजयामि पुरन्दर॥
English: I adore him, O Purandara, who is conversant with the creation of all elements and the thoughts of all living creatures, and who is the original cause of the existence or creation of all creatures, who is omnipresent, and who has the power to give everything.
Sanskrit: हेतुवादैर्विनिमुक्तं सांख्ययोगार्थदं परम्। यमुपासन्ति तत्त्वज्ञा वरं तस्माद् वृणीमहे॥ मघवन् मघवात्मानं यं वदन्ति सुरेश्वरम्। सर्वभूतगुरुं देवं वरं तस्माद् वृणीमहे॥
English: I pray for boons from Him who cannot be comprehended by argument, who is the object of the Sankhya and the Yoga systems of philosophy, and who is above all things, and whom all persons conversant with the topics of enquiry, adore, I pray for boons from Him, O Maghavat, who is the soul of Maghavat himself, who is said to be the God of the gods, and who is the Master of all creatures.
Sanskrit: यतः पूर्वमसृजद् देवं ब्रह्माणं लोकभावनम्। अण्डमाकाशमापूर्य वरं तस्माद् वृणीमहे॥
English: I pray for boons from Him who it was that first created Brahman, that creator of all the worlds, having filied Ether (with His energy) and called into being the primeval egg.
Sanskrit: अग्निरापोऽनिल: पृथ्वी खं बुद्धिश्च मनो महान्। स्रष्टा चैषां भवेद् योऽन्यो ब्रूहि कः परमेश्वरात्।।
English: Who else than that Supreme Lord could have created Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Space, Mind, and the principle of Greatness.
Sanskrit: मनो मतिरहंकारस्तन्मात्राणीन्द्रियाणि च। ब्रूहि चैषां भवेच्छक कोऽन्योऽस्ति परमं शिवात्।।
English: Tell me, O Shakra, who clse than Shiva could create Mind, Understanding, Ego, the subtile elements and the senses? Who is there higher than Shiva?
Sanskrit: स्रष्टारं भुवनस्येह वदन्तीह पितामहम्। आराध्य स तु देवेशमश्नुते महतीं श्रियम्॥
English: The wise say that the Grandfather Brahman is the creator of this universe. Brahman, however, got his great power and prosperity by worshipping and gratifying Mahadeva, that God of gods.
Sanskrit: भगवत्युत्तमैश्वर्यं ब्रह्मविष्णुपुरोगमम्। विद्यते वै महादेवाद् ब्रूहि कः परमेश्वरात्॥
English: That great power, which is in that illustrious Being who created Brahman, Vishnu, and Rudra, was derived from Mahadeva. Tell me who is there who is superior to the Supreme Lord?
Sanskrit: दैत्यदानवमुख्यानामाधिपत्यारिमर्दनात्। कोऽन्यः शक्नोति देवेशाद् दितेः सम्पादितुं सुतान्।।
English: Who else than that God of gods can bestow upon the sons of Diti lordship and power judging by the sovereignty and the power of oppressing given to the foremost of the Daityas and the Danavas? are
Sanskrit: दिक्कालसूर्यतेजांसि ग्रहवाग्विन्दुतारकाः। विद्धि त्वेते महादेवाद् ब्रूहि कः परमेश्वरात्॥
English: The cardinal points, Time, the Sun, all luminous bodies, planets, wind, water, and the stars and constellations all from Mahadevas. Tell us who is the higher than the Supreme Lord?
Sanskrit: अथोत्पत्तिविनाशे वा यज्ञस्य त्रिपुरस्य वा। दैत्यदानवमुख्यानामाधिपत्यारिमर्दनः॥
English: Who else is there, than Mahadeva, in the creation of Sacrifice and the destruction of Tripura? Who else than Mahadeva has grinded the enemies, coming into contact with the Daityas and the Danavas?
Sanskrit: किं चात्र बहुभिः सूक्तैर्हेतुवादैः पुरंदर सहस्त्रनयनं दृष्ट्वा त्वामेव सुरसत्तम॥
English: What necessity, O Purandara, is there of giving vent to tall talks full of sophistry when I see you a thousand eyes, O best of the gods.
Sanskrit: पूजितं सिद्धगन्धर्वैर्देवैश्च ऋषिभिस्तथा। देवदेवप्रसादेन तत् सर्वं कुशिकोत्तम॥
English: You who are adored by Siddhas and Gandharvas and the deities and the Rishis? O best of the Kushikas, all this is due to the favour of that God of gods, viz., Mahadeva.
Sanskrit: अव्यक्तमुक्तकेशाय सर्वगस्येदमात्मकम्। चेतनाचेतनाद्येषु शक्र विद्धि महेश्वरात्॥
English: Know, O Keshava, that this all, consisting of animate and inanimate creation with heaven and other unseen creation, which are in these worlds, and which has the allpervading Lord for its soul, has emanated from Maheshvara and has been created for enjoyment of the individual soul.
Sanskrit: भुवाद्येषु महान्तेषु लोकालोकान्तरेषु च। द्वीपस्थानेषु मेरोश्च विभवेष्वन्तरेषु च॥ भगवन् मघवन् देवं वदन्ते तत्त्वदर्शिनः।
English: In the worlds that are known by the names of Bhu, Bhuva, Svah, and Maha, in the midst of the mountains of Lokaloka, in the islands, in the mountains of Meru, in all things which produce happiness, and in the hearts of all creatures, O illustrious Maghavat, lives Mahadeva, as held by persons conversant with all the topics of enquiry.
Sanskrit: यदि देवाः सुराः शक्र पश्यन्त्यन्यां भवाद् गतिम्।। किं न गच्छन्ति शरणं मर्दिताश्चासुरैः सुराः।
English: If, O Shakra, the gods and the Asuras could see any other powerful Being than Bhava, would not both of them, especially the former when opposed and oppressed by the latter, have sought the protection of that Being?
Sanskrit: अभिघातेषु देवानां सयक्षोरगरक्षसाम्॥ परस्परविनाशेषु स्वस्थानैश्वर्यदो भवः।
English: In all battles of the gods, the Yakshas, the Uragas, and the Rakshasas, which end in mutual destruction, it is Bhava who gives to those who meet with destruction power, befitting their position and acts.
Sanskrit: अन्धकस्याथ शुक्रस्य दुन्दुभेर्महिषस्य च॥ यक्षेन्द्रबलरक्षःसु निवातकवचेषु च। वरदानवघाताय ब्रूहि कोऽन्यो महेश्वरात्॥
English: Tell me, who else than Maheshvara is there for conferring boons upon, and once more taking them away from, Andhaka and Shukra and Dundubhi and Mahisha and many foremost of Yakshas and Bala and Rakshasas and the Nivatakavachas?
Sanskrit: सुरासुरगुरोर्वक्त्रे कस्य रेत: पुरा हतम्। कस्य वाऽन्यस्य रेतस्तद् येन हैमो गिरिः कृतः।।२१६
English: Was not the seminal fluid of Mahadeva, that Master of both the gods and the Asuras, poured as a libation upon the fire? From that seed originated a mountain of gold. Who else is there whose seed can be said to be possessed of such power.
Sanskrit: दिग्वासः कीर्त्यते कोऽन्यो लोके कश्चोर्ध्वरेतसः। कस्य चार्धे स्थिता कान्ता अनङ्ग केन निर्जितः।।२१७।
English: Who else in this world is described as having the horizon only for his dress? Who else can be said to be a celibate with vital seed drawn up? Who else is there who has half his body occupied by his dear wife. Who else is there who has been able to subjugate Cupid?
Sanskrit: ब्रूहीन्द्र परमं स्थानं कस्य देवैः प्रशस्यते। श्मशाने कस्य क्रीडाथ नृत्ते वा कोऽभिभाष्यते।।२१८।
English: Tell me, O Indra, what other Being possesses that high region of supreme happiness which is highly spoken of by all the deities? Who else has the crematorium as his play ground? Who else is there who is so lauded for his dancing?
Sanskrit: कस्यैश्वर्यं समानं च भूतैः को वापि क्रीडते। कस्य तुल्यबला देव गणाश्चैश्वर्यदर्पिताः॥
English: Whose worship and power remains unchangeable? Who else is there who plays with spirits and ghosts. Tell me, O god, who else has companions who are possessed of strength like his own and who are, therefore, proud of that strength or power?
Sanskrit: घुष्यते ह्यचलं स्थानं कस्य त्रैलोक्यपूजितम्। वर्षते तपते कोऽन्यो ज्वलते तेजसा च कः॥
English: Who else is there whose place is described as unchangeable and adored with reverence by the three worlds? Who else is there who pours rain, gives heat, and blazes forth in Energy?
Sanskrit: कस्मादोषधिसम्पत्तिः को वा धारयते वसु। प्रकामं क्रीडते को वा त्रैलोक्ये सचराचरे॥
English: From whom else do we get our precious herbs? Who else upholds all kinds of riches. Who else sports as much as he likes in the three worlds of mobile and immobile things?
Sanskrit: ज्ञानसिद्धिक्रियायोगैः सेव्यमानश्च योगिभिः। ऋषिगन्धर्वसिद्धैश्च विहितं कारणं परम्॥
English: O Indra, know Maheshvara to be the original Cause. He is worshipped by Yogins, by Rishis, by the Gandharvas, and by the Siddhas, with the help of knowledge, of success, and of the rites laid down in the scriptures.
Sanskrit: कर्मयज्ञक्रियायोगैः सेव्यमानः सुरासुरैः। नित्यं कर्मफलैहीनं तमहं कारणं वदे॥
English: He is worshipped by both the gods and the Asuras with the help of sacrifices by acts and the ritual laid down in the scriptures. The fruits of action can never touch him for he is above them all. Being such, I call him the original cause of everything.
Sanskrit: स्थूलं सूक्ष्ममनौपम्यमग्राह्यं गुणगोचरम्। गुणहीनं गुणाध्यक्षं परं माहेश्वरं पदम्॥
English: He is both gross and subtile. He is peerless. He cannot be comprehended by the senses. He is endued with qualities and he is shorn of them. He is the lord of qualities, for they are under his control. Even such is Maheshvara's place.
Sanskrit: विश्वेशं कारणगुरुं लोकालोकान्तकारणम्। भूताभूतभविष्यच्च जनकं सर्वकारणम्॥
English: He is the cause of the continuance and the creation (to the universe). He is the cause of the universe and the cause also of its destruction. He is the Past, the Present and the Future. He is the parent of all things. He is the cause of every thing.
Sanskrit: अक्षराक्षरमव्यक्तं विद्याविद्ये कृताकृते। धर्माधर्मी यतः शक्र तमहं कारणं ब्रुवे॥
English: He is mutable, he is the unmanifest, he is Knowledge; he is Ignorance; he is virtue; and he is sin. O Shakra, do I call Him the cause of everything.
Sanskrit: प्रत्यक्षमिह देवेन्द्र पश्य लिङ्गं भगाङ्कितम्। देवदेवेन रुद्रेण सृष्टिसंहारहेतुना॥
English: See, O Indra, in the image of Mahadeva the marks of both the sexes. That god of gods, viz., Rudra, that cause of both creation and destruction, shows in his form the marks of both the sexes as the one cause of the creation of the universe.
Sanskrit: मात्रा पूर्वं ममाख्यातं कारणं लोकलक्षणम्। नास्ति चेशात् परं शक तं प्रपद्य यदीच्छसि॥
English: My mother formerly told me that he is the cause of the universe and the one cause of everything. There is no one who is higher than Isha, O Shakra. If it pleases you, do you throw yourself on his kindness and protection.
Sanskrit: प्रत्यक्षं ननु ते सुरेश विदितं संयोगलिङ्गोद्धम्। त्रैलोक्यं सविकारनिर्गुणगणं ब्रह्मादिरेतोद्भवम्। यद्ब्रह्मेन्द्रहुताशविष्णुसहिता देवाश्च दैत्येश्वरा। नान्यत् कामसहस्रकल्पितधियः शंसन्ति ईशात् परम्।।
English: You have evidence, o king of the gods, of the fact that the universe has originated from the union of the sexes. The universe, you kuow, is the sum of what has qualities and what has not them and has for its immcdiate cause the seeds of Brahman and others. Brahman and Indra and Hutasha and Vishnu and all the other gods, along with the Daityas and the Asuras, having the fruition of a thousand desires, always say that there is none who is higher than Ma.ladeva.
Sanskrit: तं देवं सचराचरस्य जगतो व्याख्यातवेद्योत्तम। कामार्थीवरयामि संयतमना मोक्षाय सद्यः शिवम्।।
English: Moved by desire, I solicit, with controlled mind, that god known to all the mobile and immobile universe, him, who is, who has been described as the best and highest of all the celestials, and who is auspiciousness itself, for getting forth with that highest of all acquisitions, viz., Liberation.
Sanskrit: हेतुभिर्वा किमन्यैस्तैरीश: कारणकारणम्। न शुश्रुम यदन्यस्य लिङ्गमभ्यर्चितं सुरैः॥
English: What necessity is there, of other reasons? The great Mahadeva is the cause of all causes. We have never heard that the celestials have, at any time worshipped the emblem of any other god than Mahadeva.
Sanskrit: कस्यान्यस्य सुरैः सर्वैर्लिङ्गं मुक्त्वा महेश्वरम्। अर्च्यतेऽर्चितपूर्व वा ब्रूहि यद्यस्ति ते श्रुतिः॥
English: If Mahesvara be not accepted, tell me, if you have ever heard of it, who else is there whose einblem has been adored or is being adored by all the celestials?
Sanskrit: यस्य ब्रह्मा च विष्णुश्च त्वं चापि सह दैवतैः। अर्चयध्वं सदा लिङ्गं तस्माच्छ्रेष्ठतमो हि सः॥ न पद्माङ्का न चक्राङ्का न वज्राङ्का यतः प्रजाः। लिङ्गाङ्का च भगाङ्का च तस्मान्माहेश्वरी प्रजा॥२३३
English: That god is, indeed, the most worshipful of all celestials whose emblem Brahma, Vishnu, you, O Indra, with all the other gods, always adore. Brahma has for his emblem the lotus. Vislinu has for his the discus. Indra has for his the thunderbolt. But the creatures of the world do not bear any of the signs which mark these celestials. On the other hand, all creatures bear the signs which mark Mahadeva and his consort. Hence all creatures inust be considered as belonging to Maheshvara.
Sanskrit: देव्याः कारणरूपभावजनिता: सर्वा भगाङ्का स्रियो। लिंगनापि हरस्य सर्वपुरुषाः प्रत्यक्षचिह्नीकृताः। योऽन्यत्कारणमीश्वरात् प्रवदते देव्या च यन्नाङ्कितं। त्रैलोक्ये सचराचरे स तु पुमान् बाह्यो भवेद् दुर्मतिः।।
English: All female creatures, have originaled from Uma, and hence it is they have the mark of femininity which characterises Uma; while all masculine creatures, who have originated from Shiva bear the masculine mark that marks Shiva, out. That person who holds that there is, in the three worlds with their mobile and immobile creatures, any other cause than the Supreme Lord, and that which is not marked with the mark of either Mahadeva or his wife, should be considered as very wretched and should not be numbered with the creatures of the universe.
Sanskrit: पुंलिङ्गं सर्वमीशानं स्रीलिङ्गं विद्धि चाप्युमाम्। द्वाभ्यां तनुभ्यां व्याप्तं हि चराचरमिदं जगत्॥
English: Every being having the mark of the masculine sex should be known to be of Ishana, while every being with the mark of the feminine sex should be known as belonging to Uma. This universt of mobile and immobile crcatures is pervaded by two forms (viz., male and female).
Sanskrit: तस्माद् वरमहं काइक्षे निधनं वाऽपि कौशिक। गच्छ वा तिष्ठ वा शक्र यथेष्टं बलसूदन॥
English: It is from Mahadeva that I wish to get boons. Not getting this, O Kaushika, I would rather prefer dissolution itself. Go or remain, O Shakra, as you like, O slayer of Vala.
Sanskrit: काममेष वरो मेऽस्तु शापो वाथ महेश्वरात्। न चान्यां देवता काइक्षे सर्वकामफलामपि॥
English: I wish to have boons or curses from Mahadeva. No, I shall not acknowledge any other god. Nor would I have my desires fulfilled from any other deity.
Sanskrit: एवमुक्त्वा तु देवेन्द्रं दुःखादाकुलितेन्द्रियः। न प्रसीदति मे देवः किमेतदिति चिन्तयन्॥
English: Having said these words to the king of the celestials, I became stricken with grief thinking that Mahadeva had not been propitiated despite my severe austerities.
Sanskrit: अथापश्यं क्षणेनैव तमेवैरावतं पुन:। हंसकुन्देन्दुसदृशं मृणालरजतप्रभम्॥ वृषरूपधरं साक्षात् क्षीरोदमिव सागरम्। कृष्णपुच्छं महाकायं मधुपिङ्गललोचनम्॥
English: Within the twinkling of an eye, however, I saw the celestial clephant I had seen before me Changed into a bull as while as a swan, or the Jasminum puboscons, or a stalk of the lotus, or silver, or the ocean of milk. Of huge body, the hair of its tail was black and the colour of its cyes was twany like that of honey.
Sanskrit: वज्रसारमयैः शृङ्गैर्निष्टप्तकनकप्रभैः। सुतीक्ष्णैर्मृदुरक्तात्रैरुत्किरन्तमिवावनिम्॥
English: Its horns were hard as adamant and had the Tue of gold. With their very sharp ends, whose hue was a mild red, the bull appeared to tcar the Earth.
Sanskrit: जाम्बूनदेन दाम्ना च सर्वतः समलंकृतम्। सुवक्त्रखुरनासं च सुकर्णं सुकटीतटम्॥
English: The animal was bedecked all over with ornaments made of the purest gold. Its face and hoofs and nose and ears were beautiful and its waist too wellformed.
Sanskrit: सुपार्वं विपुलस्कन्धं सुरूपं चारुदर्शनम्। ककुदं तस्य चाभाति स्कन्धमापूर्य धिष्ठितम्॥
English: Its flanks were beautiful, and its neck was very thick. Its whole form was beautiful to look at. Its hump was charming and seemed to occupy the whole of its shoulder joint.
Sanskrit: तुषारगिरिकूटाभं सिताभ्रशिखरोपमम्। तमास्थितश्च भगवान् देवदेवः सहोमया)।२४४।।
English: And it looked like the summit of a snowclad mountain or like a cliff of white clouds in the sky. Upon the back of that animal I saw seated the illustrious Mahadeva with his wife Uma.
Sanskrit: अशोभत महादेवः पौर्णमास्यामिवोडुराट्। तस्य तेजोभवो वह्निः समेघः सन्तयित्नुमान्।।२४५ सहस्रमिव सूर्याणां सर्वमापूर्य धिष्ठितः। ईश्वरः सुमहातेजाः संवर्तक इवानलः॥ युगान्ते सर्वभूतानां दिधक्षुरिव चोद्यतः।
English: Mahadeva shone like the full-moon. The fire born of his energy shone ini effulgence like lightning that flashes amid clouds. It seemed as if a thousand suns rose there, filling every quarter with a dazzling splendour. That energy of the Supreme Lord looked like the Samvartaka fire which destroys all creatures at the end of the Yoga.
Sanskrit: तेजसा तु सदा व्याप्तं दुर्निरीक्ष्यं समन्ततः॥ पुनरुद्विग्नहृदयः किमेतदिति चिन्तयन्।
English: Filled to the fill with that energy, the horizon became such that I could not see anything on any side. Filled with anxiety I once more, thought that it could mean.
Sanskrit: मुहूर्तमिव तत् तेजो व्याप्य सर्वा दिशो दश॥ प्रशान्तं दिक्षु सर्वासु देवदेवस्य मायया। अथापश्यं स्थितं स्थाणुं भगवन्तं महेश्वरम्॥
English: That energy, however, did not pervade every side for a long time, for soon, through the illusion of that god of gods, the horizon became clear. I then saw the illustrious Sthanu or Maheshvara, seated on the back of his bull, of blessed and sweet appearance and loO king like a smokeless fire.
Sanskrit: नीलकण्ठं महात्मानमसक्तं तेजसां निधिम्। अष्टादशभुजं स्थाणुं सर्वाभरणभूषितम्॥
English: And the great god was accompanied by Parvati of perfect features. Indeed, I saw the bluc-throated and great Sthanu unattached to everything, that receptacle of all sorts of energy or force, having eighteen arms, and bedecked with all sorts of ornainents.
Sanskrit: शुक्लाम्बरधरं देवं शुक्लमाल्यानुलेपनम्। शुक्लध्वजमनाधृष्यं शुक्लयज्ञोपवीतिनम्॥
English: Clad in white robes, he wore white garlands, and had white unguents sincared upon his person. His banner, irresistible in the universe, was white. The thread round his body was also white.
Sanskrit: गायद्भिर्नृत्यमानैश्च वादयद्भिश्च सर्वशः। वृतं पार्श्वचरैर्दिव्यैरात्मतुल्यपराक्रमैः॥
English: He was cncircled by companions all endued with prowess equal to his own, who were singing or dancing or playing on various inusical instruments.
Sanskrit: बालेन्दुमुकुटं पाण्डु शरच्चन्द्रमिवोदितम्। त्रिभिर्नेत्रैः कृतोद्योतं त्रिभिः सूर्यरिवोदितैः॥
English: A crescent moon, of pale colour, formed his crown, and put on his forehead it looked like the moon which rises in the autumnal sky. He seemed to dazzle with splendour on account of his three cyes which looked like three suns.
Sanskrit: अशोभतास्य देवस्य माला गात्रे सितप्रभे। जातरूपमयैः पौग्रथिता रत्नभूषिता॥
English: The garland, of the purest white, that was on his body, shone like a wreath of lotuses, of the purest white, adorned with jewels and gems.
Sanskrit: मूर्तिमन्ति तथाऽस्त्राणि सर्वतेजोमयानि च। मया दृष्टानि गोविन्द भवस्यामिततेजसः॥
English: I also saw, O Govinda, the weapons in their embodied forms and fraught with every sort of energy, that belong to Bhava of peerless prowess.
Sanskrit: इन्द्रायुधसवर्णाभं धनुस्तस्य महात्मनः। पिनाकमिति विख्यातमभवत् पन्नगो महान्॥
English: The great god held a rainbow-coloured bow. That bow known as Pinaka as is in reality a powerful snake.
Sanskrit: सप्तशीर्षो महाकायस्तीक्ष्णदंष्ट्रो विघोल्बणः। ज्यावेष्टितमहाग्रीवः स्थितः पुरुषविग्रहः॥
English: Indeed, that snake of seven heads and huge body, of sharp fangs and virulent venom, of large neck and the masculine sex was twined round, with the cord that served as its bowstring. a a
Sanskrit: शरश्च सूर्यसंकाशः कालानलसमद्युतिः। एतदस्त्रं महाघोरं दिव्यं पाशुपतं महत्॥ अद्वितीयमनिर्देश्यं सर्वभूतभयावहम्। सस्फुलिङ्गं महाकायं विसृजन्तमिवानलम्॥
English: And there was an arrow which shone like that of the sun or of the fire that appears at the end of the cycle. Verily, that arrow was the excellent Pashupata, that mighty and dreadful weapon, which is without second, indescribable for its power, and capable of terrorising every creature. Of huge proportions, it seemed to constantly emit sparks of fire.
Sanskrit: एकपादं महादंष्ट्रं सहस्रशिरसोदरम्। सहस्रभुजजिह्वाक्षमुद्गिरन्तमिवानलम्॥
English: Having one foot, large teeth, and a thousand heads and thousand stomachs, it had thousand arms, a thousand tongues, and a thousand eyes. Indeed, it seemed to continually emit fire.
Sanskrit: ब्राह्यान्नारायणाच्चैन्द्रादाग्नेयादपि वारुणात्। यद् विशिष्टं महाबाहो सर्वशस्त्रविघातनम्॥
English: O you of great arms, that weapon is superior to the Brahma, the Narayana, the Aindra, the Ageneya, and the Varuna weapons. Indeed, it is capable of neutralising every other weapon in the universe.
Sanskrit: येन तत् त्रिपुरं दग्ध्वा क्षणाद् भस्मीकृतं पुरा। शरेणैकेन गोविन्द महादेवेन लीलया॥
English: It was with that weapon that the great Mahadeva had, formerly burnt and consumed in a moment the triple city of the Asuras. With the greatest ease, O Govinda, Mahadeva, using that single arrow, performed that feat.
Sanskrit: निर्दहेत च यत् कृत्स्नं त्रैलोक्यं सचराचरम्। महेश्वरभुजोत्सृष्टं निमेषार्धान्न संशयः॥
English: That weapon, discharged by Mahadeva's arms, can, forsooth, consume in half the time taken up by a twinkling of the eye the entire universe with all its mobile and immobile creatures.