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Chapter 4

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Tenth Skandha · Chapter 4

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सूत उवाच ततः सर्वे सुरगणा महेन्द्रप्रमुखास्तदा । पद्मयोनिं पुरस्कृत्य रुद्रं शरणमन्वयुः ॥ १ ॥ उपतस्थुः प्रणतिभिः स्तोत्रैश्चारुविभूतिभिः । देवदेवं गिरिशयं शशिलोलितशेखरम् ॥ २ ॥ देववा ऊचुः जय देव गणाध्यक्ष उमालालितपङ्‌कज । अष्टसिद्धिविभूतीनां दात्रे भक्तजनाय ते ॥ ३ ॥ महामायाविलसितस्थानाय परमात्मने । वृषाङ्‌कायामरेशाय कैलासस्थितिशालिने ॥ ४ ॥ अहिर्बुध्न्याय मान्याय मनवे मानदायिने । अजाय बहुरूपाय स्वात्मारामाय शम्भवे ॥ ५ ॥ गणनाथाय देवाय गिरिशाय नमोऽस्तु ते । महाविभूतिदात्रे ते महाविष्णुस्तुताय च ॥ ६ ॥ विष्णुहृत्कञ्जवासाय महायोगरताय च । योगगम्याय योगाय योगिनां पतये नमः ॥ ७ ॥ योगीशाय नमस्तुभ्यं योगानां फलदायिने । दीनदानपरायापि दयासागरमूर्तये ॥ ८ ॥ आर्तिप्रशमनायोग्रवीर्याय गुणमूर्तये । वृषध्वजाय कालाय कालकालाय ते नमः ॥ ९ ॥ सूत उवाच एवं स्तुतः स देवेशो यज्ञभुग्भिर्वृषध्वजः । प्राह गम्भीरया वाचा प्रहसन्विबुधर्षभान् ॥ १० ॥ श्रीभगवानुवाच प्रसन्नोऽहं दिविषदः स्तोत्रेणोत्तमपूरुषाः । मनोरथं पूरयामि सर्वेषां देवतर्षभाः ॥ ११ ॥ देवा ऊचुः सर्वदेवेश गिरिश शशिमौलिविराजित । आर्तानां शङ्‌करस्त्वं च शं विधेहि महाबल ॥ १२ ॥ पर्वतो विन्ध्यनामास्ति मेरुद्वेष्टा महोन्नतः । भानुमार्गनिरोद्धा हि सर्वेषां दुःखदोऽनघ ॥ १३ ॥ तदवृद्धिं स्तम्भयेशान सर्वकल्याणकृद्‍भव । भानुसञ्चाररोधेन कालज्ञानं कथं भवेत् ॥ १४ ॥ नष्टे स्वाहास्वधाकारे लोके कः शरणं भवेत् । अस्माकं च भयार्तानां भवानेव हि दृश्यते ॥ १५ ॥ दुःखनाशकरो देव प्रसीद गिरिजापते । श्रीशिव उवाच नास्माकं शक्तिरस्तीह तद्‌वृद्धिस्तम्भने सुराः ॥ १६ ॥ इममेवं वदिष्यामो भगवन्तं रमाधवम् । सोऽस्माकं प्रभुरात्मा च पूज्यः कारणरूपधृक् ॥ १७ ॥ गोविन्दो भगवान्विष्णुः सर्वकारणकारणः । तं गत्वा कथयिष्यामः स दुःखान्तो भविष्यति ॥ १८ ॥ इत्येवमाकर्ण्य गिरीशभाषितं देवाश्च सेन्द्राः सपयोजसम्भवाः । रुद्रं पुरस्कृत्य च वेपमाना वैकुण्ठलोकं प्रतिजग्मुरञ्जसा ॥ १९ ॥ इति श्रीमद्देवीभागवते महापुराणेऽष्टादशसाहस्र्यां संहितायां दशमस्कन्धे रुद्रप्रार्थनं नाम चतुर्थोऽध्यायः ॥ ४ ॥

sūta uvāca tataḥ sarve suragaṇā mahendrapramukhāstadā | padmayoniṃ puraskṛtya rudraṃ śaraṇamanvayuḥ || 1 || upatasthuḥ praṇatibhiḥ stotraiścāruvibhūtibhiḥ | devadevaṃ giriśayaṃ śaśilolitaśekharam || 2 || devavā ūcuḥ jaya deva gaṇādhyakṣa umālālitapaṅ‌kaja | aṣṭasiddhivibhūtīnāṃ dātre bhaktajanāya te || 3 || mahāmāyāvilasitasthānāya paramātmane | vṛṣāṅ‌kāyāmareśāya kailāsasthitiśāline || 4 || ahirbudhnyāya mānyāya manave mānadāyine | ajāya bahurūpāya svātmārāmāya śambhave || 5 || gaṇanāthāya devāya giriśāya namo'stu te | mahāvibhūtidātre te mahāviṣṇustutāya ca || 6 || viṣṇuhṛtkañjavāsāya mahāyogaratāya ca | yogagamyāya yogāya yogināṃ pataye namaḥ || 7 || yogīśāya namastubhyaṃ yogānāṃ phaladāyine | dīnadānaparāyāpi dayāsāgaramūrtaye || 8 || ārtipraśamanāyogravīryāya guṇamūrtaye | vṛṣadhvajāya kālāya kālakālāya te namaḥ || 9 || sūta uvāca evaṃ stutaḥ sa deveśo yajñabhugbhirvṛṣadhvajaḥ | prāha gambhīrayā vācā prahasanvibudharṣabhān || 10 || śrībhagavānuvāca prasanno'haṃ diviṣadaḥ stotreṇottamapūruṣāḥ | manorathaṃ pūrayāmi sarveṣāṃ devatarṣabhāḥ || 11 || devā ūcuḥ sarvadeveśa giriśa śaśimaulivirājita | ārtānāṃ śaṅ‌karastvaṃ ca śaṃ vidhehi mahābala || 12 || parvato vindhyanāmāsti merudveṣṭā mahonnataḥ | bhānumārganiroddhā hi sarveṣāṃ duḥkhado'nagha || 13 || tadavṛddhiṃ stambhayeśāna sarvakalyāṇakṛd‍bhava | bhānusañcārarodhena kālajñānaṃ kathaṃ bhavet || 14 || naṣṭe svāhāsvadhākāre loke kaḥ śaraṇaṃ bhavet | asmākaṃ ca bhayārtānāṃ bhavāneva hi dṛśyate || 15 || duḥkhanāśakaro deva prasīda girijāpate | śrīśiva uvāca nāsmākaṃ śaktirastīha tad‌vṛddhistambhane surāḥ || 16 || imamevaṃ vadiṣyāmo bhagavantaṃ ramādhavam | so'smākaṃ prabhurātmā ca pūjyaḥ kāraṇarūpadhṛk || 17 || govindo bhagavānviṣṇuḥ sarvakāraṇakāraṇaḥ | taṃ gatvā kathayiṣyāmaḥ sa duḥkhānto bhaviṣyati || 18 || ityevamākarṇya girīśabhāṣitaṃ devāśca sendrāḥ sapayojasambhavāḥ | rudraṃ puraskṛtya ca vepamānā vaikuṇṭhalokaṃ pratijagmurañjasā || 19 || iti śrīmaddevībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe'ṣṭādaśasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ daśamaskandhe rudraprārthanaṃ nāma caturtho'dhyāyaḥ || 4 ||

English translation

1-2. Suta said O Risis! Then Indra and all the other Devas taking Brahma along with them and placing Him at the front, went to Mahadeva and took His refuge. They bowed down to Him and chanted sweet and great hymns to Him, Who holds Moon on His forehead, Deva of the Devas, thus

3-5. O Thou, the Leader of the host of Gods! Victory to Thee! O Thou, Whose lotus feet are served by Lima, Victory to Thee! O Thou, the Giver of the eight Siddhis and Vibhutis (extraordinary powers) to Thy devotees. Victory to Thee! O Thou, the Background of this Great Theatrical Dance of this Insurmountable Maya! Thou art the Supreme Spirit in Thy True Nature! Thou ridest on Thy vehicle, the Bull, and residest in Kailas'a; yet Thou art the Lord of all the Devas.

O Thou, Whose ornament is snakes. Who art the Honoured and the Giver of honours to persons! O Thou! the Unborn, yet comprising all forms, O Thou S'ambhu! That findest pleasure in this Thy Own Self! Victory toThee!

6-9. O Thou, the Lord of Thy attendants! O Thou, Giris'a! The Giver of the great powers, praised by Maha Visnu! O Thou, That livest in the heart lotus of Visnu, and deeply absorbed in Maha Yoga! Obeisance to Thee! O Thou that can'st be known through Yoga, and nothing but the Yoga itself; Thou, the Lord of the Yoga! We bow down to Thee. Thou awardest the fruits of yoga to the Yogins. O Thou, the Lord of the helpless! The Incarnate of the ocean of mercy! The Relief of the diseased and the most powerful! O Thou, whose forms are the three gunas, Sattva, Rajo, Tamas! O Thou! Whose Emblem (carrier) is the Bull (Dharma); Thou art verily the Great Kala; yet Thou art the Lord of Kala! Obeisance to Thee! (The Bull represents the Dharma or Speech).

10. Thus praised by the Devas, who take the offerings in sacrifices the Lord of the Devas, whose emblem is Bull, smilingly told the Devas in a deep voice

11.0 Thou, the excellent Devas! The residents of the Heavens! I am pleased with the praises that you have sung of Me. I will fulfil the desires of you, all the Devas.

12-15. The Devas said O Lord of all the Devas! O Giris'a! Thou whose forehead is adorned with Moon! O Thou, the Doer of good to the distressed. O Thou, the Powerful! Dost Thou do good to us. O Thou, the Sinless One! The Bindhya Mountain has become jealous of the Sumeru Mountain, and has risen very high up in the Heavens and he has obstructed the Sun's course, thereby causing great troubles to all. O Thou, the Doer of good to all! O Is'ana! Dost Thou check the mountain's abnormal rise. How can we fix time if the Sun's course be obstructed! And when there is no knowledge, what is now the time, the sacrifices to the Devas and the offerings to the Pitris are now almost dead and gone. O Deva! Who will now protect us? We see Thee as the Destroyer of the fear of us and of those who are terrified. O Deva! O Lord of Giris'a! Be pleased with us.

16-18. S’ri Bhagavan said O Devas! I have no power to curb the Bindhya Mountain. Let us go to the Lord of Rama and pay our respects to Him. He is our Lord, fit to be worshipped. He is Gobinda, Bhagavan Visnu, the Cause of all causes. We will go to Him and tell Him all our sorrows. He will remove them.

19. Hearing thus the words of Giris'a, Indra and the other Devas with Brahma placed Mahadeva at their front and went to the region of

Vaikuntha, trembling with fear.

Here ends the Fourth Chapter of the Tenth Book on the going of the Devas to Mahadeva in the Maha Puranam S’rimad Devi Bhagavatam of 18,000 verses by Maharsi Veda Vyasa.

Complete chapter-aligned witnesses. Sanskrit Wikisource page 31952, revision 201150 (2019-05-07T23:33:44Z). English is Swami Vijñanananda’s complete 1921–23 public-domain translation, controlled against the archival OCR and its chapter page at https://sacred-texts.com/hin/db/bk10ch04.htm. Historic spelling and transliteration are lightly normalized; no verse-by-verse alignment is asserted.