एवमेतेन विद्यां त्रिपुरेशीं स्पष्टीकृत्वा जातवेदस इत्यादिना जातो देव एक ईश्वरः परमो ज्योतिर्मन्त्रतो वेति तुरीयं वरं दत्त्वा बिन्दुपूर्णज्योतिःस्थानं कृत्वा प्रथमस्याद्यं द्वितीयं च तृतीयं च सर्वरक्षाकरीसंबन्धं कृत्वा विद्यामात्मासनरूपिणीं स्पष्टीकृत्वा जातवेदसे सुनवाम सोममित्यादि पठित्वा रक्षाकरीं विद्यां स्मृत्वाद्यन्तयोर्धाम्नोः शक्तिशिवरूपिणीं विनियोज्य स इति शक्त्यात्मकं वर्णं सोममिति शैवात्मकं धाम जानीयात्
evametena vidyāṃ tripureśīṃ spaṣṭīkṛtvā jātavedasa ityādinā jāto deva eka īśvaraḥ paramo jyotirmantrato veti turīyaṃ varaṃ dattvā bindupūrṇajyotiḥsthānaṃ kṛtvā prathamasyādyaṃ dvitīyaṃ ca tṛtīyaṃ ca sarvarakṣākarīsaṃbandhaṃ kṛtvā vidyāmātmāsanarūpiṇīṃ spaṣṭīkṛtvā jātavedase sunavāma somamityādi paṭhitvā rakṣākarīṃ vidyāṃ smṛtvādyantayordhāmnoḥ śaktiśivarūpiṇīṃ viniyojya sa iti śaktyātmakaṃ varṇaṃ somamiti śaivātmakaṃ dhāma jānīyāt
«…the born god, the one Īśvara, the highest light… having given the fourth boon, having made the place of the full into a point of light… let one know: «sa» is the sound made of power, and «somam» is the abode made of Śiva».
27e7c187a24f · प्रकाशित 7 अग॰ 2026, 5:19:24 am UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The analysis of the word somam is carried to its end, and it is clever: the word is cut in half, and the halves are given to the two of them. Sa — Śakti, oma — Śiva; and the word «somam», which in the Vedas means the sacred drink, is read as the name of the couple. The device of cutting a word is old in Sanskrit literature and is called nirvacana, «interpretation by parts». The whole Nirukta of Yāska, the oldest treatise on words, uses it, and by it too Vaishnava commentators interpret the Lord's names. There is nothing to object to in it, but its worth is the same as discussed when reading the seventh line: good for memory, not probative.
The word soma itself means both the drink and the moon. The moon is called Soma because, by tradition, it holds the drink of immortality on which the gods feed; hence its connection with amṛta. And so this line, by cutting «somam», says, in essence, this: immortality is what happens between two, not what is taken alone.