अष्टमूर्तिपूजाThe worship of the eight forms
Verse 77
समाप्य सर्वं विधिवत् वेद्यां देवीं महेश्वरीम् । अभ्यर्च्य तत्र देवस्य मूर्तीरष्टौ प्रपूजयेत् ॥ ७७ ॥
samāpya sarvaṁ vidhivat vēdyāṁ dēvīṁ mahēśvarīm | abhyarcya tatra dēvasya mūrtīraṣṭau prapūjayēt || 77 ||
Translation
having finished everything according to rule and worshipped the great Goddess in the vedī, he should there worship the eight forms of the God.
Word by word
- samāpya
- having finished
- sarvaṁ
- everything
- vidhivat
- according to rule
- vēdyāṁ
- in the vedī
- dēvīṁ
- the Goddess
- mahēśvarīm
- the great
- abhyarcya
- having worshipped
- tatra
- there
- dēvasya
- of the God
- mūrtīr
- (mūrtīḥ) the forms
- aṣṭau
- eight
- prapūjayēt
- he should worship
Meaning
The commentary gives "there" as the vedī itself. The eight forms are placed around it, in the base that is the Goddess, so that the whole round of the world stands in her.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Tatra: there in the vedī itself.