Namaste astu bhagavan viśveśvarāya
mahādevāya … śrīmanmahādevāya namaḥ.…
Śrī Rudram
To the Lord of the Universe | Effulgence Omniscient
My salutations | The three-eyed God
destroyer of the three cities | the states of waking, dream and sleep
fire of time, past, present, to be | destroyer of time, yet timeless is he
Blue-necked Lord, vanquisher of death | he is the Lord of all
endowed with every wealth | May he bless us, the Sovereign Supreme
A literal translation can never capture all that
the hymn inspires. The translator has to let go the
terseness of prose and take to free style, giving
expression to the grasp of every line…
Swami Dayananda