[Advaita-l] Shankara Digvijaya Sara - part 33

[Divya Meedin]

Thanks for this series, sir.

Regards,
Divya

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:56 AM Jaldhar H. Vyas via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> 211| evaṁprakāraiḥ kalikalmaṣaghnaiḥ śivāvatārasya śubhaiścaritraiḥ |
> dvātriṁśadatyujjvalakīrtirāśeḥ samā vyatīyuḥ kila śaṅkarasya ||96||
>
> 211. In this way, the cure for the sins of the Kaliyuga, the avatāra of
> Śiva
> Bhagavān, the fame of whose good deeds shone brightly, namely Śaṅkara,
> lived
> for thirty-two years.(96)
>
> 212| bhāṣyaṁ bhūṣyaṁ suśīlairakali kalimaladhvaṁsi kaivalyamūlyaṁ
> hantāhantā samantātkumatinatikṛtā khaṇḍitāpaṇḍitānām |
> sadyo vidyotitā'sau vipathavimathanairmuktipadyānavadyā śreyo bhūyo
> budhānāmadhikataramitaḥ śaṅkaraḥ kiṁ karotu ||97||
>
> 212. He wrote well-written commentaries capable of cleaning the filth of
> the
> Kaliyuga, whose foundational principle is oneness, and which caused the
> fake
> scholars of bad theories on all sides to cry out “alas! alas!” as they
> were
> defeated and dislodged from the wrong path with true knowledge.  What more
> could Śaṅkara do?(97)
>
> 213| iti kṛtasurakāryaṁ netumājagmurenaṁ rajataśikharaśṛṅgaṁ
> tuṅgamīśāvatāram |
> vidhiśatamakhacandropendravāvyagnipūrvāḥ suranikaravareṇyāḥ sarṣisaṅghāḥ
> sasiddhāḥ ||103||
>
> 213. Thus having completed his divine mission the Devas led by Vidhi [i.e.
> Brahma], Śatamakha [i.e. Indra], Candra, Upendra [i.e. Viṣṇu], Vayu, and
> Agni,
> reverentially came to lead him home accompanied by crowds of Ṛṣis and
> Siddhas.(103)
>
> 214| indropendrapradhānaistridaśaparivṛḍhaiḥ stūyamānaḥ prasūnaiḥ
> divyairabhyarcyamānaḥ sarasiruhabhuvā dattahastāvalambaḥ |
> āruhyokṣāṇamagryaṁ prakaṭitasujaṭājūṭacandrāvatamsaḥ śṛṇvannālokaśabdaṁ
> samuditamṛṣibhirdhāma naijaṁ pratasthe ||107||
>
> 214. The Devas with Indra and Upendra [i.e. Viṣṇu] the foremost,
> vigorously
> praised him and worshipped him by showering divine flowers upon his head.
> Sarasiruhabhuva [i.e. Brahma] gave him a hand in mounting his bull and he
> resumed his divine form with matted hair adorned by the moon and to the
> sounds
> of praise, and accompanied by the Ṛṣis, he returned to his abode.(107)
>
> || iti śrīmādhavīyaśrīśaṅkaradigvijayasāraḥ samāptaḥ ||
>
> Thus ends the Śrīmādhavīyaśrīśaṅkaradigvijayasāra.
>
> (I have completed the translation.  Now the next step will be to go back
> and
> revise it.  I've made many typos and other errors along the way and there
> are
> phrases that could be expressed more poetically or less confusingly.  I
> hope
> to finish by Guru Purnima and make it available for everyone on our
> website.)
>
>
> --
> Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
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