ऋत्विज ऊचु: तत्त्वं न ते वयमनञ्जन रुद्रशापात् कर्मण्यवग्रहधियो भगवन्विदाम: । धर्मोपलक्षणमिदं त्रिवृदध्वराख्यं ज्ञातं यदर्थमधिदैवमदो व्यवस्था: ॥ २७ ॥
rtvija ucuh tattvam na te vayam ananjana rudra-sapat karmany avagraha-dhiyo bhagavan vidamah dharmopalaksanam idam trivrd adhvarakhyam jnatam yad-artham adhidaivam ado vyavasthah
- rtvijah
- the priests
- ucuh
- began to say
- tattvam
- truth
- na
- not
- te
- of Your Lordship
- vayam
- all of us
- ananjana
- without material contamination
- rudra
- Lord Siva
- sapat
- by his curse
- karmani
- in fruitive activities
- avagraha
- being too much attached
- dhiyah
- of such intelligence
- bhagavan
- O Lord
- vidamah
- know
- dharma
- religion
- upalaksanam
- symbolized
- idam
- this
- tri-vrt
- the three departments of knowledge of the Vedas
- adhvara
- sacrifice
- akhyam
- of the name
- jnatam
- known to us
- yat
- that
- artham
- for the matter of
- adhidaivam
- for worshiping the demigods
- adah
- this
- vyavasthah
- arrangement
The priests addressed the Lord, saying: O Lord, transcendental to material contamination, by the curse offered by Lord Siva’s men we have become attached to fruitive activities, and thus we are now fallen and therefore do not know anything about You. On the contrary, we are now involved in the injunctions of the three departments of the Vedic knowledge under the plea of executing rituals in the name of yajna. We know that You have made arrangements for distributing the respective shares of the demigods.