अचलशिवलिङ्गप्रतिष्ठा प्रश्नःThe question on installing a fixed Śiva-liṅga
Verse 3
कथ्यतां जगतां नाथ सविशेषेण साम्प्रतम् । इदं हि परमं तत्त्वं प्रष्टुं वद वृणोमि कम् ॥ ३ ॥
kathyatāṁ jagatāṁ nātha saviśēṣēṇa sāmpratam | idaṁ hi paramaṁ tattvaṁ praṣṭuṁ vada vṛṇōmi kam || 3 ||
Translation
Tell it now in all its particulars, O Lord of the worlds. This is the highest truth: say, whom else could I choose to ask?
Word by word
- kathyatāṁ
- let it be told
- jagatāṁ
- of the worlds
- nātha
- O Lord
- saviśēṣēṇa
- in its particulars
- sāmpratam
- now
- idaṁ
- this
- hi
- for
- paramaṁ
- the highest
- tattvaṁ
- truth
- praṣṭuṁ
- to ask
- vada
- say
- vṛṇōmi
- may I choose
- kam
- whom
Meaning
The commentary supplies the objection she is meeting: why ask me again and again, why not ask another who is compassionate and quickly pleased? Her answer is that nobody else could be asked, which the next verse makes plain.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
If it be said: "Why do you ask me again and again? Ask someone else, supremely compassionate, quickly pleased and all-knowing", to that she says "idaṁ hi paramaṁ tattvam" and the rest.