Thou art the bird called Saranga,
Thou art a new (young) swan,
Thou art he that is displayed in beauty in consequence of the crest Thou bearest on the head (like the peacock),
Thou art he that protects the place where assemblies of the wise sit for dispensing justice,
Thou art the abode of all creatures,
Thou art the cherisher of all creatures,
Thou art day and night (the constituent elements of eternity),
Thou art he that is without fault and, therefore, never censured,
Thou art the upholder of all creatures,
Thou art the refuge of all creatures,
Thou art without birth,
Thou art existent,
Thou art ever-fruitful,
Thou art endued with dharana, dhyana and Samadhi,
Thou art the steed Ucchaisravas,
Thou art the giver of food,
Thou art he that upholds the life-breaths of living creatures,
Thou art endued with patience,
Thou art possessed of intelligence,
Thou art endued with exertion and cleverness,
Thou art honoured by all,
Thou art the giver of the fruits of righteousness and sin,
Thou art the cherisher of the senses,
Thou art the lord of all the luminaries,
Thou art collection of all objects,
Thou art he whose vestments are made of cowhides,
Thou art he that dispels the grief of his devotees,
Thou hast a golden arm,
Thou art he that protects the bodies of yogis, who seek to enter their own selves,
Thou art he that has reduced to nothingness all his foes,
Mahadeva is the foremost of sadhakas or worshippers engaged in acquiring a particular object, for he has reduced to nothingness all his foes in the form of all passions,
good and evil.
Thou art he the measure of whose bliss is very great,
Thou art he that achieved victory over the deity of irresistible desire,
Thou art he that has subjugated his senses,
Thou art the note called gandhara in the musical octave,
Thou art he that has an excellent and beautiful home (on the delightful mountains of Kailasa),
Thou art he that is ever attached to penances,
Thou art of the form of cheerfulness and contentment,
Thou art he called vast or infinite,
Thou art he in whose honour the foremost of hymns has been composed,
Thou art he, whose dancing is characterized by vast strides and large leaps,
Thou art he that is adored with reverence by the diverse groups of apsaras,
Thou art he that owns a vast standard (bearing the device of the bull),
Thou art the mountains of Meru,
Thou art he that roves among all the summits of that great mountain range,
Thou art so mobile that it is very difficult to seize Thee,
Thou art capable of being explained by preceptors to disciples, though Thou art incapable of being described in words,
Thou art of the form of that instruction, which preceptors impart to disciples,
Thou art he that can perceive all agreeable scents simultaneously,
Thou art of the form of the poached gates of towns and palaces,
Thou art of the form of the moats and ditches that surround fortified towns and give victory to the besieged garrison,
Thou art the Wind,
Thou art of the form of fortified cities and towns encompassed by walls and moats,
Thou art the prince of all winged creatures (of the form of Garuda),
Thou art he that multiplies the creation, with union by the opposite sexes,
Thou art the first of all, in respect of virtues and knowledge,
Thou art superior to even him, who is the first of all in virtues and knowledge,
Thou transcendest all virtue and knowledge,
Thou art eternal and immutable, as also dependent on Thyself,
Thou art the master and protector of the deities and asuras,
Thou art the master and protector of all creatures,
Thou art he that wears a coat of mail,
Thou art he whose arms are competent to grind all foes,
Thou art an object of adoration with even the Suparvan in heaven,
The Suparvan in heaven is otherwise called Mahan,
Thou art he that grants the power of bearing or upholding all things,
Mahadeva is He that makes creatures competent to bear all things such as grief and joy, and also bear the influence of all physical objects without life being destroyed.
Thou art capable of bearing all things,
Thou art fixed and steady,
Thou art white or pure,
Thou bearest the trident that is capable to destroy (all things),
Thou art the grantor of bodies or physical forms unto those that constantly revolve in the universe of birth and death (samsara),
Thou art more valuable than wealth,
Thou art the conduct or way of the righteous (in the form of goodness and courtesy),
Thou art he that had torn the head of Brahma after due deliberation,
Thou art he that is marked with all those auspicious marks stated in palmistry, phrenology and other branches of knowledge which treat the physical frame as the indicator of mind,
