उपनिषद् · Rāma-tāpanī Uttara 4.31
॥
देवनागरी
ओं यो ह वै श्रीरामचन्द्रः स भगवान् ये चाष्टौ लोकपालाः भूर्भुवः सुवस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
oṃ yo ha vai śrīrāmacandraḥ sa bhagavān ye cāṣṭau lokapālāḥ bhūrbhuvaḥ suvastasmai vai namo namaḥ
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
ओं यः ह वै श्रीरामचन्द्रःoṃ yaḥ ha vai śrīrāmacandraḥOṁ. He who is Śrī-Rāmacandra; Oṁ. The very one who is Śrī-Rāmacandra
सः भगवान्saḥ bhagavānhe is the Lord; he indeed is Bhagavān
ये च अष्टौ लोकपालाःye ca aṣṭau lokapālāḥand which are the eight world-guardians; those that are the eight lokapālas
भूर्भुवः सुवःbhūrbhuvaḥ suvaḥearth, mid-air, heaven; bhūḥ, bhuvaḥ, svaḥ
तस्मै वै नमः नमःtasmai vai namaḥ namaḥto him be bow upon bow; to him worship and worship
अनुवाद
Oṁ. He who is Śrī-Rāmacandra — He is the Lord, and He is all the eight guardians of the quarters. Earth, mid-air, heaven! To him be bow upon bow.
संस्करण
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The thirty-first mantra names the eight lokapālas — the guardians of the quarters.
We enumerated them in reading the thirty-eighth verse of the fourth Upaniṣad of the pūrva: Indra in the east, Agni in the south-east, Yama in the south, Nirṛti, Varuṇa in the west, Vāyu, Soma in the north, Īśāna in the north-east.
There they stood in the diagram's outer circle, and I noted: those to whom everyone prays are placed outside, while within are those who were with Him.
Here the order is different, because the business is different. In a diagram one arranges by nearness; in a doxology one names by name.
And I will add why guardians of the quarters are needed at all. They hold the quarters, that is, the very possibility of direction: without them there would be no “thither” and no “thence”.
The next three mantras will name the Vasus, the Rudras and the Ādityas — those very thirty-three whom the fifty-first and fifty-second verses of the fourth Upaniṣad laid out over the petals of the diagram.