प्रतिमा-गृह जलाशयादि प्रतिष्ठाफलम्The fruit of installing images, houses, reservoirs and the rest
Verse 29
यो दद्याद्वाहनं देवि देवताप्रीतिकारकम् । स तेन रक्षितो नित्यं तल्लोके निवसेच्चिरम् ॥ २९ ॥
yō dadyādvāhanaṁ dēvi dēvatāprītikārakam | sa tēna rakṣitō nityaṁ tallōkē nivasēcciram || 29 ||
Translation
O Devī, whoever gives a vehicle that pleases the deity is protected by it always and dwells long in that god's world.
Word by word
- yaḥ
- (yaḥ) whoever
- dadyāt
- gives
- vāhanaṁ
- a vehicle
- dēvi
- O Devī
- dēvatā
- the deity
- prīti
- pleasure
- kārakam
- giving
- saḥ
- (saḥ) he
- tēna
- by it
- rakṣitaḥ
- (rakṣitaḥ) protected
- nityaṁ
- always
- tal
- (tat) that god's
- lōkē
- in the world
- nivasēt
- dwells
- ciram
- long
Meaning
The vāhana is the animal image placed before a deity: the lion of the Devī, Śiva's bull, Viṣṇu's Garuḍa (verse 32). The giver is guarded by the very vehicle he gave.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Talloke: in the world of that deity.