Shiva Purana — Vayaviya Samhita, Uttara Bhaga — Chapter 34
SiP 7.2 34.1
ॐ इति श्रीशिवमहापुराणे सप्तम्यां वायवीयसंहितायामुत्तरखण्डे आमुष्मिककर्मविधिवर्णनं नाम त्रयस्त्रिंशो ऽध्यायः छप्तेर् ३४ उपमन्युरुवाच नित्यनैमित्तिकात्काम्याद्या सिद्धिरिह कीर्तिता सा सर्वा लभ्येत सद्यो लिंगबेरप्रतिष्ठया
oṃ iti śrīśivamahāpurāṇe saptamyāṃ vāyavīyasaṃhitāyāmuttarakhaṇḍe āmuṣmikakarmavidhivarṇanaṃ nāma trayastriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ chapter 34 upamanyuruvāca nityanaimittikātkāmyādyā siddhiriha kīrtitā sā sarvā labhyeta sadyo liṃgaberapratiṣṭhayā
Oṃ. Thus in the glorious Śiva Mahāpurāṇa, in the seventh (section), in the Vāyavīya Saṃhitā, in the latter part, the thirty-third chapter, called the description of the rules of rites pertaining to the other world. Chapter 34. Upamanyu said: The attainment that has been declared here (as arising) from the regular, the occasional, the optional and the rest — all that may be gained at once by the consecration of a liṅga or an image.
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SiP 7.2 34.2
सर्वो लिंगमयो लोकस्सर्वं लिंगे प्रतिष्ठितम् तस्मात्प्रतिष्ठिते लिंगे भवेत्सर्वं पतिष्ठितम्
sarvo liṃgamayo lokassarvaṃ liṃge pratiṣṭhitam tasmātpratiṣṭhite liṃge bhavetsarvaṃ patiṣṭhitam
The whole world consists of the liṅga; everything is established in the liṅga. Therefore, when a liṅga is consecrated, everything becomes consecrated.
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SiP 7.2 34.3
ब्रह्मणा विष्णुना वापि रुद्रेणान्येन केन वा लिंगप्रतिष्ठामुत्सृज्य क्रियते स्वपदस्थितिः
brahmaṇā viṣṇunā vāpi rudreṇānyena kena vā liṃgapratiṣṭhāmutsṛjya kriyate svapadasthitiḥ
By Brahmā, or by Viṣṇu, or by Rudra, or by whoever else — is the establishment in one's own station brought about while leaving aside the consecration of a liṅga?
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SiP 7.2 34.4
किमन्यदिह वक्तव्यं प्रतिष्ठां प्रति कारणम् पर्तिष्ठितं शिवेनापि लिंगं वैश्वेश्वरं यतः
kimanyadiha vaktavyaṃ pratiṣṭhāṃ prati kāraṇam partiṣṭhitaṃ śivenāpi liṃgaṃ vaiśveśvaraṃ yataḥ
What else need be said here as to the reason for consecration, since even by Śiva the Viśveśvara liṅga was consecrated?
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SiP 7.2 34.5
तस्मात्सर्वप्रयत्नेन परत्रेह च शर्मणे स्थापयेत्परमेशस्य लिंगं बेरमथापि वा
tasmātsarvaprayatnena paratreha ca śarmaṇe sthāpayetparameśasya liṃgaṃ beramathāpi vā
Therefore, with every effort, for welfare here and hereafter, one should set up a liṅga of the Supreme Lord, or else an image.
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SiP 7.2 34.6
श्रीकृष्ण उवाच किमिदं लिंगमाख्यातं कथं लिंगी महेश्वरः कथं च लिंगभावो ऽस्य कस्मादस्मिञ्छिवो ऽर्च्यते
śrīkṛṣṇa uvāca kimidaṃ liṃgamākhyātaṃ kathaṃ liṃgī maheśvaraḥ kathaṃ ca liṃgabhāvo 'sya kasmādasmiñchivo 'rcyate
Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: What is this that is called the liṅga? How is Maheśvara the possessor of the liṅga? And how does he have the state of being a liṅga? Why is Śiva worshipped in it?
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SiP 7.2 34.7
उपमन्युरुवाच अव्यक्तं लिंगमाख्यातं त्रिगुणप्रभवाप्ययम् अनाद्यनंतं विश्वस्य यदुपादानकारणम्
upamanyuruvāca avyaktaṃ liṃgamākhyātaṃ triguṇaprabhavāpyayam anādyanaṃtaṃ viśvasya yadupādānakāraṇam
Upamanyu said: The unmanifest is called the liṅga, in which the three qualities arise and dissolve, beginningless and endless, which is the material cause of the universe.
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SiP 7.2 34.8
तदेव मूलप्रकृतिर्माया च गगनात्मिका तत एव समुत्पन्नं जगदेतच्चराचरम्
tadeva mūlaprakṛtirmāyā ca gaganātmikā tata eva samutpannaṃ jagadetaccarācaram
That same is root-nature (mūlaprakṛti) and māyā, having the character of the sky; from that very (thing) this world, moving and unmoving, has arisen.
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SiP 7.2 34.9
अशुद्धं चैव शुद्धं यच्छुद्धाशुद्धं च तत्त्रिधा ततः शिवो महेशश्च रुद्रो विष्णुः पितामहः
aśuddhaṃ caiva śuddhaṃ yacchuddhāśuddhaṃ ca tattridhā tataḥ śivo maheśaśca rudro viṣṇuḥ pitāmahaḥ
It is threefold: impure, pure, and that which is pure-and-impure. From it (come) Śiva and Maheśa, Rudra, Viṣṇu, and the Grandfather (Brahmā).
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SiP 7.2 34.10
भूतानि चेन्द्रियैर्जाता लीयन्ते ऽत्र शिवाज्ञया अत एव शिवो लिंगो लिंगमाज्ञापयेद्यतः
bhūtāni cendriyairjātā līyante 'tra śivājñayā ata eva śivo liṃgo liṃgamājñāpayedyataḥ
The elements, born together with the senses, dissolve here by Śiva's command; therefore Śiva is the liṅga, since the liṅga issues the command.
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SiP 7.2 34.11
यतो न तदनाज्ञातं कार्याय प्रभवेत्स्वतः ततो जातस्य विश्वस्य तत्रैव विलयो यतः
yato na tadanājñātaṃ kāryāya prabhavetsvataḥ tato jātasya viśvasya tatraiva vilayo yataḥ
Since nothing not commanded by it can of itself proceed to act, and since the universe that has been born dissolves back into that very thing —
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SiP 7.2 34.12
अनेन लिंगतां तस्य भवेन्नान्येन केनचित् लिंगं च शिवयोर्देहस्ताभ्यां यस्मादधिष्ठितम्
anena liṃgatāṃ tasya bhavennānyena kenacit liṃgaṃ ca śivayordehastābhyāṃ yasmādadhiṣṭhitam
by this (reasoning) its being the liṅga is established, and by nothing else; and the liṅga is the body of Śiva and (Śivā), since it is inhabited by the two of them.
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SiP 7.2 34.13
अतस्तत्र शिवः साम्बो नित्यमेव समर्चयेत् लिंगवेदी महादेवी लिंगं साक्षान्महेश्वरः
atastatra śivaḥ sāmbo nityameva samarcayet liṃgavedī mahādevī liṃgaṃ sākṣānmaheśvaraḥ
Therefore one should there constantly worship Śiva together with Ambā: the liṅga's pedestal is the Great Goddess, the liṅga is Maheśvara himself.
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SiP 7.2 34.14
तयोः संपूजनादेव स च सा च समर्चितौ न तयोर्लिंगदेहत्वं विद्यते परमार्थतः
tayoḥ saṃpūjanādeva sa ca sā ca samarcitau na tayorliṃgadehatvaṃ vidyate paramārthataḥ
By the worship of those two alone both he and she are worshipped; in the highest truth those two have no state of being liṅga and body.
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SiP 7.2 34.15
यतस्त्वेतौ विशुद्धौ तौ देहस्तदुपचारतः तदेव परमा शक्तिः शिवस्य परमात्मनः
yatastvetau viśuddhau tau dehastadupacārataḥ tadeva paramā śaktiḥ śivasya paramātmanaḥ
For those two are wholly pure; (the talk of) a body is by figurative usage. That very (Goddess) is the supreme power of Śiva, the supreme Self.
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SiP 7.2 34.16
शक्तिराज्ञां यदादत्ते प्रसूते तच्चराचरम् न तस्य महिमा शक्यो वक्तुं वर्षशतैरपि
śaktirājñāṃ yadādatte prasūte taccarācaram na tasya mahimā śakyo vaktuṃ varṣaśatairapi
When the Power receives the command, she brings forth this world of moving and unmoving beings; her greatness cannot be told even in a hundred years.
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SiP 7.2 34.17
येनादौ मोहितौ स्यातां ब्रह्मनारायणावपि पुरा त्रिभुवनस्यास्य प्रलये समुपस्थिते
yenādau mohitau syātāṃ brahmanārāyaṇāvapi purā tribhuvanasyāsya pralaye samupasthite
By which (māyā) even Brahmā and Nārāyaṇa were at first bewildered, formerly, when the dissolution of these three worlds had come upon (them).
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SiP 7.2 34.18
वारिशय्यागतो विष्णुः सुष्वापानाकुलः सुखम् ५८९ब् यदृच्छया गतस्तत्र ब्रह्मा लोकपितामहः
vāriśayyāgato viṣṇuḥ suṣvāpānākulaḥ sukham 589b yadṛcchayā gatastatra brahmā lokapitāmahaḥ
Viṣṇu, resting on his couch of water, slept pleasantly, untroubled; by chance Brahmā, the grandfather of the worlds, came there.
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SiP 7.2 34.19
ददर्श पुण्डरीकाक्षं स्वपन्तं तमनाकुलम् मायया मोहितः शम्भोर्विष्णुमाह पितामहः
dadarśa puṇḍarīkākṣaṃ svapantaṃ tamanākulam māyayā mohitaḥ śambhorviṣṇumāha pitāmahaḥ
He saw him, the lotus-eyed one, sleeping undisturbed; and the Grandfather, bewildered by Śambhu's māyā, said to Viṣṇu:
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SiP 7.2 34.20
कस्त्वं वदेत्यमर्षेण प्रहृत्योत्थाप्य माधवम् स तु हस्तप्रहारेण तीव्रेणाभिहतः क्षणात्
kastvaṃ vadetyamarṣeṇa prahṛtyotthāpya mādhavam sa tu hastaprahāreṇa tīvreṇābhihataḥ kṣaṇāt
"Say who you are!" — and in indignation he struck Mādhava and roused him; and he (Viṣṇu), struck at once by that sharp blow of the hand,
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SiP 7.2 34.21
प्रबुद्धोत्थाय शयनाद्ददर्श परमेष्ठिनम् तमाह चांतस्संक्रुद्धः स्वयमक्रुद्धवद्धरिः
prabuddhotthāya śayanāddadarśa parameṣṭhinam tamāha cāṃtassaṃkruddhaḥ svayamakruddhavaddhariḥ
awoke, rose from his couch, and saw the Highest-seated one (Brahmā); and Hari, inwardly much angered, spoke to him as though himself not angry:
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SiP 7.2 34.22
कुतस्त्वमागतो वत्स कस्मात्त्वं व्याकुलो वद इति विष्णुवचः श्रुत्वा प्रभुत्वगुणसूचकम्
kutastvamāgato vatsa kasmāttvaṃ vyākulo vada iti viṣṇuvacaḥ śrutvā prabhutvaguṇasūcakam
"Whence have you come, child? Why are you agitated? Tell (me)." Hearing this speech of Viṣṇu, which suggested the quality of lordship,
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SiP 7.2 34.23
रजसा बद्धवैरस्तं ब्रह्मा पुनरभाषत वत्सेति मां कुतो ब्रूषे गुरुः शिष्यमिवात्मनः
rajasā baddhavairastaṃ brahmā punarabhāṣata vatseti māṃ kuto brūṣe guruḥ śiṣyamivātmanaḥ
Brahmā, whose enmity had been fixed by rajas, spoke to him again: "Why do you address me as 'child,' as a teacher does his own pupil?
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SiP 7.2 34.24
मां न जानासि किं नाथं प्रपञ्चो यस्य मे कृतिः त्रिधात्मानं विभज्येदं सृष्ट्वाथ परिपाल्यते
māṃ na jānāsi kiṃ nāthaṃ prapañco yasya me kṛtiḥ tridhātmānaṃ vibhajyedaṃ sṛṣṭvātha paripālyate
Do you not know me, the Lord, whose work this manifold world is? Having divided myself threefold, having created this, it is then protected;
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SiP 7.2 34.25
संहरामि नमे कश्चित्स्रष्टा जगति विद्यते इत्युक्ते सति सो ऽप्याह ब्रह्माणं विष्णुरव्ययः
saṃharāmi name kaścitsraṣṭā jagati vidyate ityukte sati so 'pyāha brahmāṇaṃ viṣṇuravyayaḥ
and I withdraw it; there is no creator in the world other than me." When this had been said, the imperishable Viṣṇu too said to Brahmā:
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SiP 7.2 34.26
अहमेवादिकर्तास्य हर्ता च परिपालकः भवानपि ममैवांगादवतीर्णः पुराव्ययात्
ahamevādikartāsya hartā ca paripālakaḥ bhavānapi mamaivāṃgādavatīrṇaḥ purāvyayāt
"I alone am the primal maker of this (world), and its destroyer and protector; you too came forth of old from the very body of me, the imperishable.
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SiP 7.2 34.27
मन्नियोगात्त्वमात्मानं त्रिधा कृत्वा जगत्त्रयम् सृजस्यवसि चांते तत्पुनः प्रतिसृजस्यपि
manniyogāttvamātmānaṃ tridhā kṛtvā jagattrayam sṛjasyavasi cāṃte tatpunaḥ pratisṛjasyapi
By my appointment you, making yourself threefold, create the three worlds and protect them, and at the end you emit them again.
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SiP 7.2 34.28
विस्मृतोसि जगन्नाथं नारायणमनामयम् तवापि जनकं साक्षान्मामेवमवमन्यसे
vismṛtosi jagannāthaṃ nārāyaṇamanāmayam tavāpi janakaṃ sākṣānmāmevamavamanyase
You have forgotten Nārāyaṇa, the lord of the world, the flawless one; you thus slight me, your own father in person.
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SiP 7.2 34.29
तवापराधो नास्त्यत्र भ्रांतोसि मम मायया मत्प्रसादादियं भ्रांतिरपैष्यति तवाचिरात्
tavāparādho nāstyatra bhrāṃtosi mama māyayā matprasādādiyaṃ bhrāṃtirapaiṣyati tavācirāt
In this there is no fault of yours: you are deluded by my māyā. By my grace this delusion of yours will soon depart.
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SiP 7.2 34.30
शृणु सत्यं चतुर्वक्त्र सर्वदेवेश्वरो ह्यहम् कर्ता भर्ता च हर्ता च न मयास्ति समो विभुः
śṛṇu satyaṃ caturvaktra sarvadeveśvaro hyaham kartā bhartā ca hartā ca na mayāsti samo vibhuḥ
Hear the truth, O four-faced one: I am indeed the lord of all the gods; (I am) the maker, the sustainer and the destroyer; there is no mighty one equal to me.
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SiP 7.2 34.31
एवमेव विवादोभूद्ब्रह्मविष्ण्वोः परस्परम् अभवच्च महायुद्धं भैरवं रोमहर्षणम्
evameva vivādobhūdbrahmaviṣṇvoḥ parasparam abhavacca mahāyuddhaṃ bhairavaṃ romaharṣaṇam
Just in this way a dispute arose between Brahmā and Viṣṇu with each other, and a great battle came about, terrifying, making the hair bristle.
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SiP 7.2 34.32
मुष्टिभिर्न्निघ्नतोस्तीव्रं रजसा बद्धवैरयोः तयोर्दर्पापहाराय प्रबोधाय च देवयोः
muṣṭibhirnnighnatostīvraṃ rajasā baddhavairayoḥ tayordarpāpahārāya prabodhāya ca devayoḥ
As the two, bound in enmity through (the quality of) passion, were fiercely striking each other with their fists, in order to take away the pride of those two gods and to awaken them —
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SiP 7.2 34.33
मध्ये समाविरभवल्लिंगमैश्वरमद्भुतम् ज्वालामालासहस्राढ्यमप्रमेयमनौपमम्
madhye samāvirabhavalliṃgamaiśvaramadbhutam jvālāmālāsahasrāḍhyamaprameyamanaupamam
— in the middle there appeared a wondrous liṅga of the Lord, endowed with a thousand garlands of flame, immeasurable, without comparison,
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SiP 7.2 34.34
क्षयवृद्धिविनिर्मुक्तमादिमध्यांतवर्जितम् तस्य ज्वालासहस्रेण ब्रह्मविष्णू विमोहितौ
kṣayavṛddhivinirmuktamādimadhyāṃtavarjitam tasya jvālāsahasreṇa brahmaviṣṇū vimohitau
free from waning and waxing, devoid of beginning, middle and end; by its thousand flames Brahmā and Viṣṇu were bewildered.
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SiP 7.2 34.35
विसृज्य युद्धं किं त्वेतदित्यचिंतयतां तदा न तयोस्तस्य याथात्म्यं प्रबुद्धमभवद्यदा
visṛjya yuddhaṃ kiṃ tvetadityaciṃtayatāṃ tadā na tayostasya yāthātmyaṃ prabuddhamabhavadyadā
Abandoning the fight, they then wondered, "What is this?" When the true nature of it did not become clear to those two,
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SiP 7.2 34.36
तदा समुद्यतौ स्यातां तस्याद्यंतं परीक्षितुम्
tadā samudyatau syātāṃ tasyādyaṃtaṃ parīkṣitum
then they both set out to examine its beginning and end.
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SiP 7.2 34.37
तत्र हंसाकृतिर्ब्रह्मा विश्वतः पक्षसंयुतः मनोनिलजवो भूत्वा गतस्तूर्ध्वं प्रयत्नतः
tatra haṃsākṛtirbrahmā viśvataḥ pakṣasaṃyutaḥ manonilajavo bhūtvā gatastūrdhvaṃ prayatnataḥ
There Brahmā, in the form of a goose, furnished with wings on all sides, having become as swift as mind and wind, went upward with effort.
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SiP 7.2 34.38
नारायणोपि विश्वात्मा लीलाञ्जनचयोपमम् वाराहममितं रूपमस्थाय गतवानधः
nārāyaṇopi viśvātmā līlāñjanacayopamam vārāhamamitaṃ rūpamasthāya gatavānadhaḥ
Nārāyaṇa too, the Self of all, taking on an immeasurable boar-form resembling a mass of dark collyrium at play, went downward.
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SiP 7.2 34.39
एवं वर्षसहस्रं तु त्वरन् विष्णुरधोगतः नापश्यदल्पमप्यस्य मूलं लिंगस्य सूकरः
evaṃ varṣasahasraṃ tu tvaran viṣṇuradhogataḥ nāpaśyadalpamapyasya mūlaṃ liṃgasya sūkaraḥ
Thus for a thousand years Viṣṇu, hastening, went downward; yet the boar did not see even a little of the root of that liṅga.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
SiP 7.2 34.40
तावत्कालं गतश्चोर्ध्वं तस्यांतं ज्ञातुमिच्छया श्रांतोत्यंतमदृष्ट्वांतं पापताधः पितामहः
tāvatkālaṃ gataścordhvaṃ tasyāṃtaṃ jñātumicchayā śrāṃtotyaṃtamadṛṣṭvāṃtaṃ pāpatādhaḥ pitāmahaḥ
And for just so long the Grandfather went upward, with the wish to know its end; utterly exhausted, not having seen the end, he fell down.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
SiP 7.2 34.41
५९०अ तथैव भगवान् विष्णुः श्रांतः संविग्नलोचनः क्लेशेन महता तूर्णमधस्तादुत्थितो ऽभवत्
590a tathaiva bhagavān viṣṇuḥ śrāṃtaḥ saṃvignalocanaḥ kleśena mahatā tūrṇamadhastādutthito 'bhavat
In just the same way the Lord Viṣṇu, exhausted, his eyes agitated, with great distress quickly came up from below.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
SiP 7.2 34.42
समागतावथान्योन्यं विस्मयस्मेरवीक्षणौ मायया मोहितौ शंभोः कृत्याकृत्यं न जग्मतुः
samāgatāvathānyonyaṃ vismayasmeravīkṣaṇau māyayā mohitau śaṃbhoḥ kṛtyākṛtyaṃ na jagmatuḥ
Then the two came together, their glances at each other smiling with amazement; deluded by Śambhu's māyā, they did not arrive at what was to be done and not to be done.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
SiP 7.2 34.43
पृष्ठतः पार्श्वतस्तस्य चाग्रतश्च स्थितावुभौ प्रणिपत्य किमात्मेदमित्यचिंतयतां तदा
pṛṣṭhataḥ pārśvatastasya cāgrataśca sthitāvubhau praṇipatya kimātmedamityaciṃtayatāṃ tadā
Both stood behind it, at its side and in front of it, and having bowed down, they then wondered, "What is the nature of this?"
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition