उपनिषद् · Nṛsiṃha-tāpanī Pūrva 4.30
॥
देवनागरी
ओं यो ह वै नृसिंहो देवो भगवान् ये चाष्टौ लोकपालाः भूर्भुवः स्वस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
oṃ yo ha vai nṛsiṃho devo bhagavān ye cāṣṭau lokapālāḥ bhūrbhuvaḥ svastasmai vai namo namaḥ
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
ओं यः ह वैoṃ yaḥ ha vaiOṁ. He who; Oṁ. The very one who
नृसिंहः देवः सः भगवान्nṛsiṃhaḥ devaḥ saḥ bhagavānis the God Nṛsiṃha — he is the Lord; the god Nṛsiṃha is — he is Bhagavān
ये च अष्टौ लोकपालाःye ca aṣṭau lokapālāḥand which are the eight world-guardians; and those that are the eight lokapālas
भूर्भुवः स्वःbhūrbhuvaḥ svaḥearth, 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 the God Nṛsiṃha — He is the Lord, and He is 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 sixteenth name is the eight lokapālas, the guardians of the quarters: 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.
We enumerated them in reading the thirty-eighth verse of the fourth Upaniṣad of the pūrva-tāpanī of the Rāma-tāpanī, where they stood in the outer circle of the diagram.
Here the order is different, because the business is different: in a diagram one arranges by nearness; in a doxology one names by name.
Note 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 paragraphs will name the Vasus, the Rudras and the Ādityas — those very thirty-three whom the old count reduces to one.