भरद्वाज उवाच । भगवन् भूतभव्येश वरोऽयं मेऽद्य रोचते । येनेयं जनता दुःखान्मुच्यते तदुदाहर ॥ ८ ॥
bharadvāja uvāca | bhagavan bhūtabhavyēśa varō’yaṁ mē’dya rōcatē | yēnēyaṁ janatā duḥkhānmucyatē tadudāhara || 8 ||
Translation
Bharadvāja said: Lord of what has been and what will be, the boon I want today is this: tell how these people may be freed from sorrow.
Word by word
- bharadvāja
- Bharadvāja
- uvāca
- said
- bhagavan
- Lord
- bhūta
- of what has been
- bhavya
- what will be
- īśa
- ruler
- varaḥ
- the boon
- ayaṁ
- this
- mē
- to me
- adya
- today
- rōcatē
- is pleasing
- yēna
- by which
- iyaṁ
- these
- janatā
- people
- duḥkhāt
- from sorrow
- mucyatē
- are freed
- tat
- that
- udāhara
- tell
Meaning
Bharadvāja asks nothing for himself. His boon is the question that the whole work answers.