Shiva Purana

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॥ शिव उवाच ॥ पूर्वमाराधितो विप्र ब्रह्मणाहं तपोधन ॥ तपसा चावतारार्थं मुनिभिश्च सुरोत्तमैः॥ ३३॥

sanskrit

Śiva said:— O brahmin, O sage, formerly I have been propitiated by means of penance by Brahmā, by sages and by leading gods and urged to take an incarnation.

english translation

॥ ziva uvAca ॥ pUrvamArAdhito vipra brahmaNAhaM tapodhana ॥ tapasA cAvatArArthaM munibhizca surottamaiH॥ 33॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript

siva.sh/siva-purana/saturda-samhita/6/33

॥ शिव उवाच ॥ पूर्वमाराधितो विप्र ब्रह्मणाहं तपोधन ॥ तपसा चावतारार्थं मुनिभिश्च सुरोत्तमैः॥ ३३॥

sanskrit

Śiva said:— O brahmin, O sage, formerly I have been propitiated by means of penance by Brahmā, by sages and by leading gods and urged to take an incarnation.

english translation

॥ ziva uvAca ॥ pUrvamArAdhito vipra brahmaNAhaM tapodhana ॥ tapasA cAvatArArthaM munibhizca surottamaiH॥ 33॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript