ततस्ते सेश्वरा लोका उपासाद्येश्वरं नता: । त्राहि नस्तावकान्देव विनष्टांस्त्रिपुरालयै: ॥ ५६ ॥
tatas te sesvara loka upasadyesvaram natah trahi nas tavakan deva vinastams tripuralayaih
- tatah
- thereafter
- te
- they (the demigods)
- sa-isvarah
- with their rulers
- lokah
- the planes
- upasadya
- approaching
- isvaram
- Lord Siva
- natah
- fell down in surrender
- trahi
- please save
- nah
- us
- tavakan
- near and dear to you and very frightened
- deva
- O Lord
- vinastan
- almost finished
- tripura-alayaih
- by the demons dwelling in those three planes.
Thereafter, when the demons had begun to destroy the higher planeary systems, the rulers of those planes went to Lord Siva, fully surrendered unto him and said: Dear Lord, we demigods living in the three worlds are about to be vanquished. We are your followers. Kindly save us.