namaḥ śivāya rudrāya namaḥ śakti-dharāya ca sarva-vidyādhipataye bhūtānāṁ pataye namaḥ
WORD BY WORD
TRANSLATION
I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, Lord Śiva, or Rudra, who are the reservoir of all potencies, the reservoir of all knowledge, and the master of everyone.
PURPORT
It is the system for one to offer obeisances unto the expansion or incarnation of the Lord. Lord Śiva is the incarnation of ignorance, one of the material modes of nature.