चेतस्तत्प्रवणं युञ्जन्नस्तावीत्संहताञ्जलि: । श्लक्ष्णया सूक्तया वाचा सर्वलोकगरीयस: ॥ २६ ॥ अत्रिरुवाच विश्वोद्भवस्थितिलयेषु विभज्यमानै- र्मायागुणैरनुयुगं विगृहीतदेहा: । ते ब्रह्मविष्णुगिरिशा: प्रणतोऽस्म्यहं व-स्तेभ्य: क एव भवतां म इहोपहूत: ॥ २७ ॥
cetas tat-pravanam yunjann astavit samhatanjalih slaksnaya suktaya vaca sarva-loka-gariyasah atrir uvaca visvodbhava-sthiti-layesu vibhajyamanair maya-gunair anuyugam vigrhita-dehah te brahma-visnu-girisah pranato ’smy aham vas tebhyah ka eva bhavatam ma ihopahutah
- cetah
- heart
- tat-pravanam
- fixing on them
- yunjan
- making
- astavit
- offered prayers
- samhata-anjalih
- with folded hands
- slaksnaya
- ecstatic
- suktaya
- prayers
- vaca
- words
- sarva-loka
- all over the world
- gariyasah
- honorable
- atrih uvaca
- Atri said
- visva
- the universe
- udbhava
- creation
- sthiti
- maintenance
- layesu
- in destruction
- vibhajyamanaih
- being divided
- maya-gunaih
- by the external modes of nature
- anuyugam
- according to different millenniums
- vigrhita
- accepted
- dehah
- bodies
- te
- they
- brahma
- Lord Brahma
- visnu
- Lord Visnu
- girisah
- Lord Siva
- pranatah
- bowed
- asmi
- am
- aham
- I
- vah
- unto you
- tebhyah
- from them
- kah
- who
- eva
- certainly
- bhavatam
- of you
- me
- by me
- iha
- here
- upahutah
- called for
But since his heart was already attracted by the deities, somehow or other he gathered his senses, and with folded hands and sweet words he began to offer prayers to the predominating deities of the universe. The great sage Atri said: O Lord Brahma, Lord Visnu and Lord Siva, you have divided yourself into three bodies by accepting the three modes of material nature, as you do in every millennium for the creation, maintenance and dissolution of the cosmic manifestation. I offer my respectful obeisances unto all of you and beg to inquire whom of you three I have called by my prayer.