galantī śambho tvaccaritasaritaḥ kilbiṣarajodalantī dhīkulyāsaraṇiṣu patantī vijayatām ;diśantī saṃsārabhramaṇaparitāpopaśamanaṃvasantī maccetohradabhuvi śivānandalaharī . 2 .
ŚLOKA 2 / 100
A wave of joy in the heart
About these study notes: English meanings and explanations were generated with AI assistance and have not been independently reviewed by a Sanskrit scholar. Sanskrit text follows the cited source editions.
02 / PHRASE STUDY · PADĀRTHA
A phrase at a time.
Follow the words into meaning. Select a phrase to locate it in the verse above. Read the quarters together for the full sentence.
Sringeri IAST text · source wording and line-break hyphens retained. English glosses follow the connected Sanskrit sense.
Vignanam text · spellings and hyphens retained. English glosses follow the base Sanskrit; variant readings are not separately translated.
| Selected phrase | Meaning in context |
|---|---|
Flowing from the river of your story, O Shambhu, washing away the dust of wrongdoing. | |
Breaking through impurity and entering the channels of understanding: may that current flourish. | |
Offering relief from the burning distress of wandering in worldly existence. | |
May the wave of joy in Shiva dwell in the lake of my heart. |
These four study units follow the printed quarters. Sentences and compounds can continue across a line break; read the whole verse for connected meaning. The source wording stays unchanged.
| Selected phrase | Meaning in context |
|---|---|
Flowing from the river of your story, O Shambhu, washing away the dust of wrongdoing. Galantī describes the wave introduced in the last quarter. Kilbiṣarajo belongs with dalantī in the next: the dust of wrongdoing is what is dispersed. | |
Breaking through impurity and entering the channels of understanding: may that current flourish. Dalantī continues the preceding phrase; patantī carries the movement into the channels of understanding. Vijayatām expresses the wish that the wave flourish. | |
Offering relief from the burning distress of wandering in worldly existence. Diśantī, granting, governs the relief named at the end of the compound. Saṃsāra-bhramaṇa describes wandering through worldly existence. | |
May the wave of joy in Shiva dwell in the lake of my heart. Śivānandalaharī finally supplies the subject for the preceding participles. Vasantī brings the flowing wave to rest in the speaker’s heart-lake. |
Selected words and compound parts are shown in IAST. This is a contextual vocabulary study, not an exhaustive grammatical analysis. The source phrase follows your selected script. Locate highlights that unchanged phrase; learning forms are not substituted into the verse.
| Word / source phrase | Meaning in context |
|---|---|
O Shambhu Vocative address to Shiva, interrupting the river image with a personal call. | |
story or deeds Within tvaccarita: your deeds or story. This is what the following river carries. | |
river The river is the source from which the wave flows, not a separate physical destination. | |
flowing A feminine participle describing the wave named at the end of the verse. | |
your Within tvaccarita: the story or deeds belong to the addressed Shambhu. | |
wrongdoing; fault The first component of the dust-of-wrongdoing image. | |
dust Printed rajo before dalantī in the following quarter; the removal of this dust crosses the line break. | |
understanding In dhīkulyā: understanding is compared to an irrigation channel. | |
breaking; dispersing Continues the preceding object kilbiṣarajaḥ: dispersing the dust of wrongdoing. | |
irrigation channel In dhīkulyā: the channels belong to understanding rather than a physical field. | |
in the courses or channels Locative plural. It describes where the current enters or falls. | |
falling or entering A feminine participle continuing the description of the wave. | |
may it flourish or prevail The wish refers to śivānandalaharī, the delayed subject in the last quarter. | |
worldly wandering The cycle of worldly wandering, joined here with bhramaṇa. | |
burning distress The distress for which the wave gives relief; the compound continues into upaśamana. | |
granting; bestowing The wave grants relief from the distress described in the compound that follows. | |
wandering or revolving Within saṃsārabhramaṇa: the movement through worldly existence. | |
quieting; relief The end of the compound names the easing of burning distress. | |
wave The wave is the subject of the verse. The hymn’s title appears in the closing quarter. | |
lake In maccetohrada: the speaker’s mind or heart is imagined as a lake. | |
dwelling The wave comes to reside in the heart-lake after its flowing and cleansing movement. | |
my Printed mac- before cetas in the compound naming the speaker’s heart-lake. | |
heart or mind The place in which the river image culminates. | |
ground; place In hradabhuvi: the setting or ground of the lake metaphor. |
03 / SIMPLE MEANING
A wave of joy in the heart
May the wave of joy in Shiva flourish within my heart. Flowing from the river of his story, it washes away wrongdoing, enters the channels of understanding and relieves the distress of worldly wandering.
04 / DETAILED MEANING
How the verse unfolds.
The subject, śivānandalaharī, is held until the last quarter. Four feminine participles describe what this wave does: galantī, flowing; dalantī, breaking or washing away; diśantī, granting; and vasantī, dwelling. Patantī, entering or falling into, extends the movement through the channels of understanding. Read the preceding descriptions with that delayed subject.
The imagery has a continuous course. Shiva’s story is the river, understanding supplies irrigation channels, and the speaker’s heart is the lake in which the wave resides. Kilbiṣarajo dalantī crosses the first line break: the dust of wrongdoing belongs with the action that removes it, not with a new independent subject.
Vijayatām expresses the wish that this current flourish or prevail. The verse links remembered narrative, understanding and relief from distress in one image. It does not require treating an English paraphrase as a word-for-word replacement for the Sanskrit, or treating relief as a guaranteed result of one recitation.
EDITORIAL EXPLANATION · NOT A TRADITIONAL COMMENTARY
05 / DEEPER CONTEMPLATION
What do I carry from hearing a sacred story into the rest of my day?
Read this verse once more, then sit with the question. Notice the particular image or expression that holds your attention. You do not need to force an answer.
Keep a reflection or question ↓06 / THEMES & TATTVA
Connected themes
Editorial lenses; a verse may invite other readings.
Associated Tattva
Remembrance and transformation
Shiva’s story is a river whose current washes away wrongdoing and enters the channels of understanding. Remembrance is pictured as nourishment that reaches the heart.
Explore this Tattva →07 / PERSONAL REFLECTION
A phrase, a question, a moment of understanding
What do I carry from hearing a sacred story into the rest of my day?
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