स चिरं मायया विष्णोर्भ्रामित: कर्शितो भृशम् । शिववागमृतध्वस्तक्लेशपुञ्जस्तमब्रवीत् ॥ २७ ॥
sa ciraṁ māyayā viṣṇor bhrāmitaḥ karśito bhṛśam śiva-vāg-amṛta-dhvasta- kleśa-puñjas tam abravīt
- saḥ
- he
- ciram
- for a long time
- māyayā
- by the illusory energy
- viṣṇoḥ
- of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu
- bhrāmitaḥ
- made to wander
- karśitaḥ
- exhausted
- bhṛśam
- extremely
- śiva
- of Lord Śiva
- vāk-amṛta
- by the words of nectar
- dhvasta
- destroyed
- kleśa-puñjaḥ
- his heaps of suffering
- tam
- to him
- abravīt
- spoke
Mārkaṇḍeya, having been forced by Lord Viṣṇu’s illusory energy to wander about for a long time in the water of dissolution, had become extremely exhausted. But Lord Śiva’s words of nectar vanquished his accumulated suffering. Thus he addressed Lord Śiva.