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StotramDevi (generic Goddess)South India

Soundarya Lahari

verse 1

शिवः शक्त्या युक्तो यदि भवति शक्तः प्रभवितुं

Śivaḥ śaktyā yukto yadi bhavati śaktaḥ prabhavituṃ

न चेदेवं देवो न खलु कुशलः स्पन्दितुमपि ।

Na cedevaṃ devo na khalu kuśalaḥ spanditumapi |

अतस्त्वामाराध्यां हरिहरविरिञ्चादिभिरपि

Atastvāmārādhyāṃ hariharaviriñcādibhirapi

प्रणन्तुं स्तोतुं वा कथमकृतपुण्यः प्रभवति

Praṇantuṃ stotuṃ vā kathamakṛtapuṇyaḥ prabhavati

Meaning

Only when Shiva is joined with Shakti does He gain the power to create;

without that, this God could not so much as stir.

You, then, are worshipped by Hari, Hara, Virinchi and the rest;

how then could one who has earned no merit dare to bow to You, or to praise You?

verse 2

तनीयांसं पांसुं तव चरणपङ्केरुहभवं

Tanīyāṃsaṃ pāṃsuṃ tava caraṇapaṅkeruhabhavaṃ

विरिञ्चिस्सञ्चिन्वन् विरचयति लोकानविकलम् ।

Viriñcissañcinvan viracayati lokānavikalam |

वहत्येनं शौरिः कथमपि सहस्रेण शिरसां

Vahatyenaṃ śauriḥ kathamapi sahasreṇa śirasāṃ

हरस्संक्षुद्यैनं भजति भसितोद्धूलनविधिम्

Harassaṃkṣudyainaṃ bhajati bhasitoddhūlanavidhim

Meaning

Gathering the finest speck of dust born of Your lotus feet,

Virinchi fashions the worlds entire and without flaw.

Shauri bears that same speck, and only with great effort, upon His thousand heads;

and Hara grinds it fine and uses it for the rite of smearing Himself with ash.

verse 3

अविद्यानामन्त\-स्तिमिर\-मिहिरद्वीपनगरी

Avidyānāmanta\-stimira\-mihiradvīpanagarī

जडानां चैतन्य\-स्तबक\-मकरन्द\-स्रुतिझरी ।

Jaḍānāṃ caitanya\-stabaka\-makaranda\-srutijharī |

दरिद्राणां चिन्तामणिगुणनिका जन्मजलधौ

Daridrāṇāṃ cintāmaṇiguṇanikā janmajaladhau

निमग्नानां दंष्ट्रा मुररिपु\-वराहस्य भवति

Nimagnānāṃ daṃṣṭrā muraripu\-varāhasya bhavati

Meaning

For the ignorant it is an island-city of sunlight against the darkness within;

for the dull-witted, a cascade of nectar dripping from the flower-cluster of consciousness;

for the destitute, a string of wish-fulfilling gems; and for those sunk in the ocean of birth,

it becomes the tusk of Vishnu in His boar form, lifting them clear.

verse 4

त्वदन्यः पाणिभ्यामभयवरदो दैवतगणः

Tvadanyaḥ pāṇibhyāmabhayavarado daivatagaṇaḥ

त्वमेका नैवासि प्रकटितवराभीत्यभिनया ।

Tvamekā naivāsi prakaṭitavarābhītyabhinayā |

भयात् त्रातुं दातुं फलमपि च वाञ्छासमधिकं

Bhayāt trātuṃ dātuṃ phalamapi ca vāñchāsamadhikaṃ

शरण्ये लोकानां तव हि चरणावेव निपुणौ

Śaraṇye lokānāṃ tava hi caraṇāveva nipuṇau

Meaning

Every other god shows the gestures of fearlessness and boon-giving with their hands;

You alone make no such display of granting boons and dispelling fear.

For to save from fear, and to grant a reward greater even than what was wished for,

O refuge of the worlds, Your feet alone are wholly sufficient.

verse 5

हरिस्त्वामाराध्य प्रणतजनसौभाग्यजननीं

Haristvāmārādhya praṇatajanasaubhāgyajananīṃ

पुरा नारी भूत्वा पुररिपुमपि क्षोभमनयत् ।

Purā nārī bhūtvā puraripumapi kṣobhamanayat |

स्मरोऽपि त्वां नत्वा रतिनयनलेह्येन वपुषा

Smaro'pi tvāṃ natvā ratinayanalehyena vapuṣā

मुनीनामप्यन्तः प्रभवति हि मोहाय महताम्

Munīnāmapyantaḥ prabhavati hi mohāya mahatām

Meaning

Hari worshipped You, the mother of all good fortune for those who bow before You,

and long ago, taking the form of a woman, stirred even the Destroyer of the three cities.

Smara too, bowing to You, with a body drunk in by the eyes of Rati,

gains the power to stir longing even within the hearts of the great sages.

verse 6

धनुः पौष्पं मौर्वी मधुकरमयी पञ्च विशिखाः

Dhanuḥ pauṣpaṃ maurvī madhukaramayī pañca viśikhāḥ

वसन्तः सामन्तो मलयमरुदायोधनरथः ।

Vasantaḥ sāmanto malayamarudāyodhanarathaḥ |

तथाप्येकः सर्वं हिमगिरिसुते कामपि कृपाम्

Tathāpyekaḥ sarvaṃ himagirisute kāmapi kṛpām

अपाङ्गात्ते लब्ध्वा जगदिद\-मनङ्गो विजयते

Apāṅgātte labdhvā jagadida\-manaṅgo vijayate

Meaning

His bow is of flowers, its string a row of bees, his arrows only five;

spring is his vassal, and the Malaya breeze his chariot of war.

And yet, O daughter of the snow mountain, having won some measure of grace

from the corner of Your eye, Ananga alone conquers this whole world.

verse 7

क्वणत्काञ्चीदामा करिकलभकुम्भस्तननता

Kvaṇatkāñcīdāmā karikalabhakumbhastananatā

परिक्षीणा मध्ये परिणतशरच्चन्द्रवदना ।

Parikṣīṇā madhye pariṇataśaraccandravadanā |

धनुर्बाणान् पाशं सृणिमपि दधाना करतलैः

Dhanurbāṇān pāśaṃ sṛṇimapi dadhānā karatalaiḥ

पुरस्तादास्तां नः पुरमथितुराहोपुरुषिका

Purastādāstāṃ naḥ puramathiturāhopuruṣikā

Meaning

Her girdle of small bells softly chiming, bowed by breasts like a young elephant's temples,

slender at the waist, Her face the full moon of autumn,

bearing bow and arrows, noose and goad in Her hands,

may She stand before us, She who is the very pride of the Destroyer of the cities.

verse 8

सुधासिन्धोर्मध्ये सुरविटपिवाटीपरिवृते

Sudhāsindhormadhye suraviṭapivāṭīparivṛte

मणिद्वीपे नीपोपवनवति चिन्तामणिगृहे ।

Maṇidvīpe nīpopavanavati cintāmaṇigṛhe |

शिवाकारे मञ्चे परमशिवपर्यङ्कनिलयां

Śivākāre mañce paramaśivaparyaṅkanilayāṃ

भजन्ति त्वां धन्याः कतिचन चिदानन्दलहरीम्

Bhajanti tvāṃ dhanyāḥ katicana cidānandalaharīm

Meaning

In the midst of the ocean of nectar, ringed about by groves of celestial trees,

on the Island of Gems, in a grove of kadamba, within a house of wish-fulfilling stones,

on a couch shaped as Shiva Himself, resting upon the seat that is Parama Shiva,

a blessed few worship You, who are the very wave of consciousness and bliss.

verse 9

महीं मूलाधारे कमपि मणिपूरे हुतवहं

Mahīṃ mūlādhāre kamapi maṇipūre hutavahaṃ

स्थितं स्वाधिष्ठाने हृदि मरुतमाकाशमुपरि ।

Sthitaṃ svādhiṣṭhāne hṛdi marutamākāśamupari |

मनोऽपि भ्रूमध्ये सकलमपि भित्वा कुलपथं

Mano'pi bhrūmadhye sakalamapi bhitvā kulapathaṃ

सहस्रारे पद्मे सह रहसि पत्या विहरसे

Sahasrāre padme saha rahasi patyā viharase

Meaning

Earth in the muladhara, water in the manipura, fire

set in the svadhishthana, air in the heart and ether above it,

and mind between the brows: piercing all of these, and the whole kula path,

in the thousand-petalled lotus You dwell in secret delight with Your Lord.

verse 10

सुधाधारासारैश्चरणयुगलान्तर्विगलितैः

Sudhādhārāsāraiścaraṇayugalāntarvigalitaiḥ

प्रपञ्चं सिञ्चन्ती पुनरपि रसाम्नायमहसः ।

Prapañcaṃ siñcantī punarapi rasāmnāyamahasaḥ |

अवाप्य स्वां भूमिं भुजगनिभमध्युष्टवलयं

Avāpya svāṃ bhūmiṃ bhujaganibhamadhyuṣṭavalayaṃ

स्वमात्मानं कृत्वा स्वपिषि कुलकुण्डे कुहरिणि

Svamātmānaṃ kṛtvā svapiṣi kulakuṇḍe kuhariṇi

Meaning

With streams of nectar pouring down from between Your two feet,

You drench the whole universe; then, from the radiance of the nectar-scripture,

You return to Your own place, coiling into rings like a serpent,

and making Yourself Your own resting place, You sleep in the hollow of the kula-kunda.

verse 11

चतुर्भिः श्रीकण्ठैः शिवयुवतिभिः पञ्चभिरपि

Caturbhiḥ śrīkaṇṭhaiḥ śivayuvatibhiḥ pañcabhirapi

प्रभिन्नाभिः शम्भोर्नवभिरपि मूलप्रकृतिभिः ।

Prabhinnābhiḥ śambhornavabhirapi mūlaprakṛtibhiḥ |

चतुश्चत्वारिंशद्वसुदलकलाश्रत्रिवलय

Catuścatvāriṃśadvasudalakalāśratrivalaya

त्रिरेखाभिः सार्धं तव शरणकोणाः परिणताः

Trirekhābhiḥ sārdhaṃ tava śaraṇakoṇāḥ pariṇatāḥ

Meaning

By four Shrikanthas, the upward triangles of Shiva, and by five youthful Shaktis as well,

distinct from Shambhu, nine root-natures in all,

along with the forty-four angles, the eight-petalled lotus, the sixteen kalas, the three encircling rings

and the three lines, the corners of Your sacred abode have taken their form.

verse 12

त्वदीयं सौन्दर्यं तुहिनगिरिकन्ये तुलयितुं

Tvadīyaṃ saundaryaṃ tuhinagirikanye tulayituṃ

कवीन्द्राः कल्पन्ते कथमपि विरिञ्चिप्रभृतयः ।

Kavīndrāḥ kalpante kathamapi viriñciprabhṛtayaḥ |

यदालोकौत्सुक्यादमरललना यान्ति मनसा

Yadālokautsukyādamaralalanā yānti manasā

तपोभिर्दुष्प्रापामपि गिरिशसायुज्यपदवीम्

Tapobhirduṣprāpāmapi giriśasāyujyapadavīm

Meaning

O daughter of the snow mountain, to find any measure for Your beauty,

even the foremost of poets, Virinchi and the rest, can scarcely succeed;

for in their longing to behold it, the women of the gods attain in thought

that union with Girisha which even austerities can hardly reach.

verse 13

नरं वर्षीयांसं नयनविरसं नर्मसु जडं

Naraṃ varṣīyāṃsaṃ nayanavirasaṃ narmasu jaḍaṃ

तवापाङ्गालोके पतितमनुधावन्ति शतशः ।

Tavāpāṅgāloke patitamanudhāvanti śataśaḥ |

गलद्वेणीबन्धाः कुचकलशविस्रस्तसिचया

Galadveṇībandhāḥ kucakalaśavisrastasicayā

हठात् त्रुट्यत्काञ्च्यो विगलितदुकूला युवतयः

Haṭhāt truṭyatkāñcyo vigalitadukūlā yuvatayaḥ

Meaning

A man far gone in years, unpleasing to the eye, dull in the play of love,

if he but falls within the glance from the corner of Your eye, is pursued by hundreds

their braids coming loose, their garments slipping from their breasts,

their girdles snapping of themselves and their silks falling away.

verse 14

क्षितौ षट्पञ्चाशद् द्विसमधिकपञ्चाशदुदके

Kṣitau ṣaṭpañcāśad dvisamadhikapañcāśadudake

हुताशे द्वाषष्टिश्चतुरधिकपञ्चाशदनिले ।

Hutāśe dvāṣaṣṭiścaturadhikapañcāśadanile |

दिवि द्विष्षट्त्रिंशन्मनसि च चतुष्षष्टिरिति ये

Divi dviṣṣaṭtriṃśanmanasi ca catuṣṣaṣṭiriti ye

मयूखास्तेषामप्युपरि तव पादाम्बुजयुगम्

Mayūkhāsteṣāmapyupari tava pādāmbujayugam

Meaning

Fifty-six rays in the sphere of earth, fifty-two in that of water,

sixty-two in fire, fifty-four in air,

seventy-two in ether and sixty-four in mind:

above even all these rays stand Your two lotus feet.

verse 15

शरज्ज्योत्स्नाशुद्धां शशियुतजटाजूटमकुटां

Śarajjyotsnāśuddhāṃ śaśiyutajaṭājūṭamakuṭāṃ

वरत्रासत्राणस्फटिकघटिकापुस्तककराम् ।

Varatrāsatrāṇasphaṭikaghaṭikāpustakakarām |

सकृन्न त्वा नत्वा कथमिव सतां संन्निदधते

Sakṛnna tvā natvā kathamiva satāṃ saṃnnidadhate

मधुक्षीरद्राक्षामधुरिमधुरीणाः भणितयः

Madhukṣīradrākṣāmadhurimadhurīṇāḥ bhaṇitayaḥ

Meaning

Pure as autumn moonlight, crowned with matted locks that hold the moon,

Your hands holding the boon, the sign of safety, a crystal rosary and a book,

unless one has bowed to You even once, how could there ever come to the good

utterances that carry the sweetness of honey, of milk, of grapes?

verse 16

कवीन्द्राणां चेतःकमलवनबालातपरुचिं

Kavīndrāṇāṃ cetaḥkamalavanabālātaparuciṃ

भजन्ते ये सन्तः कतिचिदरुणामेव भवतीम् ।

Bhajante ye santaḥ katicidaruṇāmeva bhavatīm |

विरिञ्चिप्रेयस्यास्तरुणतरशृङ्गारलहरी

Viriñcipreyasyāstaruṇataraśṛṅgāralaharī

गभीराभिर्वाग्भिर्विदधति सतां रञ्जनममी

Gabhīrābhirvāgbhirvidadhati satāṃ rañjanamamī

Meaning

You are the glow of young sunlight upon the lotus-grove that is the heart of great poets;

those few good souls who worship You as Aruna, the crimson one,

with words made deep by the surging fresh delight of the beloved of Virinchi,

bring delight to the hearts of the good.

verse 17

सवित्रीभिर्वाचां शशिमणिशिलाभङ्गरुचिभिः

Savitrībhirvācāṃ śaśimaṇiśilābhaṅgarucibhiḥ

वशिन्याद्याभिस्त्वां सह जननि संचिन्तयति यः ।

Vaśinyādyābhistvāṃ saha janani saṃcintayati yaḥ |

स कर्ता काव्यानां भवति महतां भङ्गिरुचिभिः

Sa kartā kāvyānāṃ bhavati mahatāṃ bhaṅgirucibhiḥ

वचोभिर्वाग्देवीवदनकमलामोदमधुरैः

Vacobhirvāgdevīvadanakamalāmodamadhuraiḥ

Meaning

With the mothers of speech, radiant as slivers of moonstone,

with Vashini and the others, O Mother, whoever contemplates You,

he becomes a maker of great poems, in words of graceful turn,

words sweet with the fragrance of the lotus-faces of the goddesses of speech.

verse 18

तनुच्छायाभिस्ते तरुणतरणिश्रीसरणिभिः

Tanucchāyābhiste taruṇataraṇiśrīsaraṇibhiḥ

दिवं सर्वामुर्वीमरुणिमनि मग्नां स्मरति यः ।

Divaṃ sarvāmurvīmaruṇimani magnāṃ smarati yaḥ |

भवन्त्यस्य त्रस्यद्वनहरिणशालीननयनाः

Bhavantyasya trasyadvanahariṇaśālīnanayanāḥ

सहोर्वश्या वश्याः कति कति न गीर्वाणगणिकाः

Sahorvaśyā vaśyāḥ kati kati na gīrvāṇagaṇikāḥ

Meaning

Whoever calls to mind the radiance of Your form, which follows the splendour of the young sun,

and sees all heaven and earth steeped in that crimson,

for him, with eyes as shy as those of a startled forest doe,

how many of the courtesans of the gods, Urvashi among them, do not become his own?

verse 19

मुखं बिन्दुं कृत्वा कुचयुगमधस्तस्य तदधो

Mukhaṃ binduṃ kṛtvā kucayugamadhastasya tadadho

हरार्धं ध्यायेद्यो हरमहिषि ते मन्मथकलाम् ।

Harārdhaṃ dhyāyedyo haramahiṣi te manmathakalām |

स सद्यः संक्षोभं नयति वनिता इत्यतिलघु

Sa sadyaḥ saṃkṣobhaṃ nayati vanitā ityatilaghu

त्रिलोकीमप्याशु भ्रमयति रवीन्दुस्तनयुगाम्

Trilokīmapyāśu bhramayati ravīndustanayugām

Meaning

Taking Your face as the bindu, Your two breasts below it, and below that

the half of Hara: O queen of Hara, whoever meditates thus on Your kama-kala,

stirs women at once, though to say only that is far too small a thing;

he swiftly sets whirling the three worlds themselves, whose two breasts are the sun and the moon.

verse 20

किरन्तीमङ्गेभ्यः किरणनिकुरम्बामृतरसं

Kirantīmaṅgebhyaḥ kiraṇanikurambāmṛtarasaṃ

हृदि त्वामाधत्ते हिमकरशिलामूर्तिमिव यः ।

Hṛdi tvāmādhatte himakaraśilāmūrtimiva yaḥ |

स सर्पाणां दर्पं शमयति शकुन्ताधिप इव

Sa sarpāṇāṃ darpaṃ śamayati śakuntādhipa iva

ज्वरप्लुष्टान् दृष्ट्या सुखयति सुधाधारसिरया

Jvarapluṣṭān dṛṣṭyā sukhayati sudhādhārasirayā

Meaning

You who pour from Your limbs a flood of rays that is the very essence of nectar,

whoever holds You in the heart as a figure carved of moonstone,

he quells the pride of serpents as the king of birds does,

and with a glance, through that stream of nectar, brings ease to those burnt by fever.

verse 21

तटिल्लेखातन्वीं तपनशशिवैश्वानरमयीं

Taṭillekhātanvīṃ tapanaśaśivaiśvānaramayīṃ

निषण्णां षण्णामप्युपरि कमलानां तव कलाम् ।

Niṣaṇṇāṃ ṣaṇṇāmapyupari kamalānāṃ tava kalām |

महापद्माटव्यां मृदितमलमायेन मनसा

Mahāpadmāṭavyāṃ mṛditamalamāyena manasā

महान्तः पश्यन्तो दधति परमाह्लादलहरीम्

Mahāntaḥ paśyanto dadhati paramāhlādalaharīm

Meaning

Slender as a streak of lightning, made of sun, moon and fire,

Your kala, seated above all six lotuses,

the great ones behold in the forest of the great lotus, with minds whose stain of maya has been crushed,

and so hold within them a surging wave of supreme bliss.

verse 22

भवानि त्वं दासे मयि वितर दृष्टिं सकरुणा

Bhavāni tvaṃ dāse mayi vitara dṛṣṭiṃ sakaruṇā

मिति स्तोतुं वाञ्छन् कथयति भवानि त्वमिति यः ।

Miti stotuṃ vāñchan kathayati bhavāni tvamiti yaḥ |

तदैव त्वं तस्मै दिशसि निजसायुज्यपदवीं

Tadaiva tvaṃ tasmai diśasi nijasāyujyapadavīṃ

मुकुन्दब्रह्मेन्द्रस्फुटमकुटनीराजितपदाम्

Mukundabrahmendrasphuṭamakuṭanīrājitapadām

Meaning

"O Bhavani, cast upon me, Your servant, a glance filled with compassion":

whoever, wishing to praise You so, utters only the words "Bhavani tvam",

at that very instant You grant him the state of union with Yourself,

that state whose feet are worshipped by the gleaming crowns of Mukunda, Brahma and Indra.

verse 23

त्वया हृत्वा वामं वपुरपरितृप्तेन मनसा

Tvayā hṛtvā vāmaṃ vapuraparitṛptena manasā

शरीरार्धं शम्भोरपरमपि शङ्के हृतमभूत् ।

Śarīrārdhaṃ śambhoraparamapi śaṅke hṛtamabhūt |

यदेतत्त्वद्रूपं सकलमरुणाभं त्रिनयनं

Yadetattvadrūpaṃ sakalamaruṇābhaṃ trinayanaṃ

कुचाभ्यामानम्रं कुटिलशशिचूडालमकुटम्

Kucābhyāmānamraṃ kuṭilaśaśicūḍālamakuṭam

Meaning

Having taken the left half of Shambhu's body, Your mind still unsatisfied,

so I suspect that You took the other half of His body as well;

for this form of Yours is entirely crimson, and three-eyed,

bowed under the weight of two breasts, and crowned with the curved crescent moon.

verse 24

जगत्सूते धाता हरिरवति रुद्रः क्षपयते

Jagatsūte dhātā hariravati rudraḥ kṣapayate

तिरस्कुर्वन्नेतत्स्वमपि वपुरीशस्तिरयति ।

Tiraskurvannetatsvamapi vapurīśastirayati |

सदापूर्वः सर्वं तदिदमनुगृह्णाति च शिव

Sadāpūrvaḥ sarvaṃ tadidamanugṛhṇāti ca śiva

स्तवाज्ञामालम्ब्य क्षणचलितयोर्भ्रूलतिकयोः

Stavājñāmālambya kṣaṇacalitayorbhrūlatikayoḥ

Meaning

Brahma brings forth the world, Hari preserves it, Rudra destroys it,

Ishana makes all this vanish and then conceals His own form as well,

and Sadashiva, who is ever prior to all, then blesses this whole creation anew:

all of them acting on Your command, given by a momentary movement of Your creeper-like brows.

verse 25

त्रयाणां देवानां त्रिगुणजनितानां तव शिवे

Trayāṇāṃ devānāṃ triguṇajanitānāṃ tava śive

भवेत् पूजा पूजा तव चरणयोर्या विरचिता ।

Bhavet pūjā pūjā tava caraṇayoryā viracitā |

तथा हि त्वत्पादोद्वहनमणिपीठस्य निकटे

Tathā hi tvatpādodvahanamaṇipīṭhasya nikaṭe

स्थिता ह्येते शश्वन्मुकुलितकरोत्तंसमकुटाः

Sthitā hyete śaśvanmukulitakarottaṃsamakuṭāḥ

Meaning

O consort of Shiva, the worship that is offered at Your two feet

becomes the worship of all three gods born of the three gunas;

for they stand forever beside the jewelled footstool that bears Your feet,

with hands folded in salutation and raised to their crowns.

verse 26

विरिञ्चिः पञ्चत्वं व्रजति हरिराप्नोति विरतिं

Viriñciḥ pañcatvaṃ vrajati harirāpnoti viratiṃ

विनाशं कीनाशो भजति धनदो याति निधनम् ।

Vināśaṃ kīnāśo bhajati dhanado yāti nidhanam |

वितन्द्री माहेन्द्री विततिरपि संमीलितदृशा

Vitandrī māhendrī vitatirapi saṃmīlitadṛśā

महासंहारेऽस्मिन् विहरति सति त्वत्पतिरसौ

Mahāsaṃhāre'smin viharati sati tvatpatirasau

Meaning

Virinchi dissolves into the elements, Hari comes to his end,

Yama meets destruction, Kubera the giver of wealth passes away,

and even the tireless host of Indra closes its eyes:

yet in this great dissolution Your husband sports on, while You abide.

verse 27

जपो जल्पः शिल्पं सकलमपि मुद्राविरचना

Japo jalpaḥ śilpaṃ sakalamapi mudrāviracanā

गतिः प्रादक्षिण्यक्रमणमशनाद्याहुतिविधिः ।

Gatiḥ prādakṣiṇyakramaṇamaśanādyāhutividhiḥ |

प्रणामस्संवेशस्सुखमखिलमात्मार्पणदृशा

Praṇāmassaṃveśassukhamakhilamātmārpaṇadṛśā

सपर्यापर्यायस्तव भवतु यन्मे विलसितम्

Saparyāparyāyastava bhavatu yanme vilasitam

Meaning

Let my idle talk be recitation, my every act of craft the forming of sacred gestures,

my walking a circumambulation, my eating and the rest an offering into the fire,

my lying down a prostration, and every pleasure an offering of myself:

let everything I do become another name for Your worship.

verse 28

सुधामप्यास्वाद्य प्रतिभयजरामृत्युहरिणीं

Sudhāmapyāsvādya pratibhayajarāmṛtyuhariṇīṃ

विपद्यन्ते विश्वे विधिशतमखाद्या दिविषदः ।

Vipadyante viśve vidhiśatamakhādyā diviṣadaḥ |

करालं यत्क्ष्वेलं कबलितवतः कालकलना

Karālaṃ yatkṣvelaṃ kabalitavataḥ kālakalanā

न शम्भोस्तन्मूलं तव जननि ताटङ्कमहिमा

Na śambhostanmūlaṃ tava janani tāṭaṅkamahimā

Meaning

Even after tasting the nectar that takes away dreadful old age and death,

all the dwellers in heaven, Brahma, the hundred-sacrifice Indra and the rest, perish;

yet for Shambhu, who swallowed the terrible poison, Time keeps no reckoning:

and the root of that, O Mother, is the greatness of Your ear-ornaments.

verse 29

किरीटं वैरिञ्चं परिहर पुरः कैटभभिदः

Kirīṭaṃ vairiñcaṃ parihara puraḥ kaiṭabhabhidaḥ

कठोरे कोटीरे स्खलसि जहि जम्भारिमुकुटम् ।

Kaṭhore koṭīre skhalasi jahi jambhārimukuṭam |

प्रणम्रेष्वेतेषु प्रसभमुपयातस्य भवनं

Praṇamreṣveteṣu prasabhamupayātasya bhavanaṃ

भवस्याभ्युत्थाने तव परिजनोक्तिर्विजयते

Bhavasyābhyutthāne tava parijanoktirvijayate

Meaning

"Avoid Brahma's crown! Before you stands the slayer of Kaitabha,

you will stumble on his hard diadem! Mind Indra's crown!"

As these gods lie bowed before You, when Bhava suddenly enters Your house

and You rise to greet Him, the words of Your attendants ring out in triumph.

verse 30

स्वदेहोद्भूताभिर्घृणिभिरणिमाद्याभिरभितो

Svadehodbhūtābhirghṛṇibhiraṇimādyābhirabhito

निषेव्ये नित्ये त्वामहमिति सदा भावयति यः ।

Niṣevye nitye tvāmahamiti sadā bhāvayati yaḥ |

किमाश्चर्यं तस्य त्रिनयनसमृद्धिं तृणयतो

Kimāścaryaṃ tasya trinayanasamṛddhiṃ tṛṇayato

महासंवर्ताग्निर्विरचयति नीराजनविधिम्

Mahāsaṃvartāgnirviracayati nīrājanavidhim

Meaning

O eternal One, served on every side by the rays born of Your own body, the powers of anima and the rest,

whoever contemplates always, "I am You",

what wonder is it that, holding the wealth of the three-eyed god as a blade of grass,

the great fire of dissolution performs the rite of waving lamps before him?

verse 31

चतुष्षष्ट्या तन्त्रैः सकलमतिसंधाय भुवनं

Catuṣṣaṣṭyā tantraiḥ sakalamatisaṃdhāya bhuvanaṃ

स्थितस्तत्तत्सिद्धिप्रसवपरतन्त्रैः पशुपतिः ।

Sthitastattatsiddhiprasavaparatantraiḥ paśupatiḥ |

पुनस्त्वन्निर्बन्धादखिलपुरुषार्थैकघटना

Punastvannirbandhādakhilapuruṣārthaikaghaṭanā

स्वतन्त्रं ते तन्त्रं क्षितितलमवातीतरदिदम्

Svatantraṃ te tantraṃ kṣititalamavātītaradidam

Meaning

Having bound the whole world with the sixty-four tantras,

each devoted to producing only its own particular powers, Pashupati rested;

then, at Your insistence, He brought down to this earth

Your own independent tantra, which alone accomplishes every aim of human life.

verse 32

शिवः शक्तिः कामः क्षितिरथ रविः शीतकिरणः

Śivaḥ śaktiḥ kāmaḥ kṣitiratha raviḥ śītakiraṇaḥ

स्मरो हंसः शक्रस्तदनु च परामारहरयः ।

Smaro haṃsaḥ śakrastadanu ca parāmāraharayaḥ |

अमी हृल्लेखाभिस्तिसृभिरवसानेषु घटिता

Amī hṛllekhābhistisṛbhiravasāneṣu ghaṭitā

भजन्ते वर्णास्ते तव जननि नामावयवताम्

Bhajante varṇāste tava janani nāmāvayavatām

Meaning

Shiva, Shakti, Kama, Kshiti; then Ravi, the cool-rayed moon,

Smara, Hamsa, Shakra; and after them Para, Mara and Hari:

these syllables, joined at the close of each group with the three hrllekhas,

come to form the very limbs of Your name, O Mother.

verse 33

स्मरं योनिं लक्ष्मीं त्रितयमिदमादौ तव मनो

Smaraṃ yoniṃ lakṣmīṃ tritayamidamādau tava mano

र्निधायैके नित्ये निरवधिमहाभोगरसिकाः ।

Rnidhāyaike nitye niravadhimahābhogarasikāḥ |

भजन्ति त्वां चिन्तामणिगुननिबद्धाक्षवलयाः

Bhajanti tvāṃ cintāmaṇigunanibaddhākṣavalayāḥ

शिवाग्नौ जुह्वन्तः सुरभिघृतधाराहुतिशतैः

Śivāgnau juhvantaḥ surabhighṛtadhārāhutiśataiḥ

Meaning

Placing at the head the three, Smara, Yoni and Lakshmi, in their minds,

some, O eternal One, who savour boundless and great enjoyment,

worship You, their rosaries strung upon chintamani threads,

offering into the fire of Shiva hundreds of oblations of streams of fragrant ghee.

verse 34

शरीरं त्वं शम्भोः शशिमिहिरवक्षोरुहयुगं

Śarīraṃ tvaṃ śambhoḥ śaśimihiravakṣoruhayugaṃ

तवात्मानं मन्ये भगवति नवात्मानमनघम् ।

Tavātmānaṃ manye bhagavati navātmānamanagham |

अतश्शेषश्शेषीत्ययमुभयसाधारणतया

Ataśśeṣaśśeṣītyayamubhayasādhāraṇatayā

स्थितः संबन्धो वां समरसपरानन्दपरयोः

Sthitaḥ saṃbandho vāṃ samarasaparānandaparayoḥ

Meaning

You are the body of Shambhu, with the sun and the moon as its two breasts;

and Your own Self, O Bhagavati, I hold to be the flawless nine-fold One.

So the relation of "the dependent" and "the one depended upon" between You two

stands common to both alike, for You are one in essence, intent upon supreme bliss.

verse 35

मनस्त्वं व्योम त्वं मरुदसि मरुत्सारथिरसि

Manastvaṃ vyoma tvaṃ marudasi marutsārathirasi

त्वमापस्त्वं भूमिस्त्वयि परिणतायां न हि परम् ।

Tvamāpastvaṃ bhūmistvayi pariṇatāyāṃ na hi param |

त्वमेव स्वात्मानं परिणमयितुं विश्ववपुषा

Tvameva svātmānaṃ pariṇamayituṃ viśvavapuṣā

चिदानन्दाकारं शिवयुवति भावेन बिभृषे

Cidānandākāraṃ śivayuvati bhāvena bibhṛṣe

Meaning

You are mind, You are ether, You are air, You are the wind's charioteer, fire,

You are the waters, You are earth; when You have become all this, nothing lies beyond;

it is You alone who, to transform Your own Self into the body of the universe,

O youthful consort of Shiva, bear the form of consciousness and bliss as this very state of being.

verse 36

तवाज्ञाचक्रस्थं तपनशशिकोटिद्युतिधरं

Tavājñācakrasthaṃ tapanaśaśikoṭidyutidharaṃ

परं शम्भुं वन्दे परिमिलितपार्श्वं परचिता ।

Paraṃ śambhuṃ vande parimilitapārśvaṃ paracitā |

यमाराध्यन् भक्त्या रविशशिशुचीनामविषये

Yamārādhyan bhaktyā raviśaśiśucīnāmaviṣaye

निरालोकेऽलोके निवसति हि भालोकभुवने

Nirāloke'loke nivasati hi bhālokabhuvane

Meaning

In Your ajna chakra I bow to the supreme Shambhu, who bears the light of ten million suns and moons,

His side closely joined by the supreme Consciousness;

worshipping whom with devotion, one comes to dwell beyond the reach of sun, moon and fire,

in a realm without ordinary light, beyond all worlds, yet luminous with its own radiance.

verse 37

विशुद्धौ ते शुद्धस्फटिकविशदं व्योमजनकं

Viśuddhau te śuddhasphaṭikaviśadaṃ vyomajanakaṃ

शिवं सेवे देवीमपि शिवसमानव्यवसिताम् ।

Śivaṃ seve devīmapi śivasamānavyavasitām |

ययोः कान्त्या यान्त्याः शशिकिरणसारूप्यसरणे

Yayoḥ kāntyā yāntyāḥ śaśikiraṇasārūpyasaraṇe

विधूतान्तर्ध्वान्ता विलसति चकोरीव जगती

Vidhūtāntardhvāntā vilasati cakorīva jagatī

Meaning

In Your vishuddha chakra I serve Shiva, clear as pure crystal, the begetter of ether,

and the Devi too, who is one with Him in purpose;

by whose radiance, travelling along the very path of the moon's rays,

the world, its inner darkness shaken off, shines like the chakori bird.

verse 38

समुन्मीलत् संवित् कमलमकरन्दैकरसिकं

Samunmīlat saṃvit kamalamakarandaikarasikaṃ

भजे हंसद्वन्द्वं किमपि महतां मानसचरम् ।

Bhaje haṃsadvandvaṃ kimapi mahatāṃ mānasacaram |

यदालापादष्टादशगुणितविद्यापरिणति

Yadālāpādaṣṭādaśaguṇitavidyāpariṇati

र्यदादत्ते दोषाद् गुणमखिलमद्भ्यः पय इव

Ryadādatte doṣād guṇamakhilamadbhyaḥ paya iva

Meaning

I worship that indescribable pair of swans, delighting only in the nectar of the opening lotus of awareness,

moving upon the Manasa lake of the great ones;

from whose speech unfolds the whole of the eighteen branches of learning,

and who take all that is good out of the bad, as milk is drawn from water.

verse 39

तव स्वाधिष्ठाने हुतवहमधिष्ठाय निरतं

Tava svādhiṣṭhāne hutavahamadhiṣṭhāya nirataṃ

तमीडे संवर्तं जननि महतीं तां च समयाम् ।

Tamīḍe saṃvartaṃ janani mahatīṃ tāṃ ca samayām |

यदालोके लोकान् दहति महति क्रोधकलिते

Yadāloke lokān dahati mahati krodhakalite

दयार्द्रा या दृष्टिः शिशिरमुपचारं रचयति

Dayārdrā yā dṛṣṭiḥ śiśiramupacāraṃ racayati

Meaning

In Your svadhishthana I praise Samvarta, the fire of dissolution, ever presiding over the flame,

and, O Mother, that great Samaya who abides with Him;

for when His mighty gaze, kindled with wrath, burns the worlds,

Her glance, moist with compassion, works upon them like a cooling remedy.

verse 40

तटित्त्वन्तं शक्त्या तिमिरपरिपन्थिस्फुरणया

Taṭittvantaṃ śaktyā timiraparipanthisphuraṇayā

स्फुरन्नानारत्नाभरणपरिणद्धेन्द्रधनुषम् ।

Sphurannānāratnābharaṇapariṇaddhendradhanuṣam |

तव श्यामं मेघं कमपि मणिपूरैकशरणं

Tava śyāmaṃ meghaṃ kamapi maṇipūraikaśaraṇaṃ

निषेवे वर्षन्तं हरमिहिरतप्तं त्रिभुवनम्

Niṣeve varṣantaṃ haramihirataptaṃ tribhuvanam

Meaning

With Shakti as the lightning whose flash is the enemy of darkness,

and a rainbow woven of the many gleaming jewelled ornaments,

I serve that indescribable dark cloud of Yours, whose one abode is the manipura,

raining upon the three worlds that are scorched by the sun which is Hara.

verse 41

तवाधारे मूले सह समयया लास्यपरया

Tavādhāre mūle saha samayayā lāsyaparayā

नवात्मानं मन्ये नवरसमहाताण्डवनटम् ।

Navātmānaṃ manye navarasamahātāṇḍavanaṭam |

उभाभ्यामेताभ्यामुदयविधिमुद्दिश्य दयया

Ubhābhyāmetābhyāmudayavidhimuddiśya dayayā

सनाथाभ्यां जज्ञे जनकजननीमज्जगदिदम्

Sanāthābhyāṃ jajñe janakajananīmajjagadidam

Meaning

In Your muladhara, together with Samaya who is intent upon the lasya dance,

I contemplate the nine-fold One, the dancer of the great tandava of the nine rasas;

and by these two, joined together and moved by compassion to bring creation about,

this world was born, and so it has both a father and a mother.

verse 42

गतैर्माणिक्यत्वं गगनमणिभिः सान्द्रघटितं

Gatairmāṇikyatvaṃ gaganamaṇibhiḥ sāndraghaṭitaṃ

किरीटं ते हैमं हिमगिरिसुते कीर्तयति यः ।

Kirīṭaṃ te haimaṃ himagirisute kīrtayati yaḥ |

स नीडेयच्छायाच्छुरणशबलं चन्द्रशकलं

Sa nīḍeyacchāyācchuraṇaśabalaṃ candraśakalaṃ

धनुः शौनासीरं किमिति न निबध्नाति धिषणाम्

Dhanuḥ śaunāsīraṃ kimiti na nibadhnāti dhiṣaṇām

Meaning

O daughter of the snow mountain, whoever sings the praise of Your golden crown,

densely set with the suns of the sky that have turned into rubies,

would he not take the crescent moon upon it, dappled by the play of their reflected glow,

for the rainbow of Indra?

verse 43

धुनोतु ध्वान्तं नस्तुलितदलितेन्दीवरवनं

Dhunotu dhvāntaṃ nastulitadalitendīvaravanaṃ

घनस्निग्धश्लक्ष्णं चिकुरनिकुरुम्बं तव शिवे ।

Ghanasnigdhaślakṣṇaṃ cikuranikurumbaṃ tava śive |

यदीयं सौरभ्यं सहजमुपलब्धुं सुमनसो

Yadīyaṃ saurabhyaṃ sahajamupalabdhuṃ sumanaso

वसन्त्यस्मिन् मन्ये वलमथनवाटीविटपिनाम्

Vasantyasmin manye valamathanavāṭīviṭapinām

Meaning

May Your mass of hair dispel our darkness, O consort of Shiva,

thick, glossy and smooth, rivalling a grove of opened blue lotuses;

and I think the blossoms of the trees in Indra's garden dwell in it

only to acquire the fragrance that is native to it.

verse 44

तनोतु क्षेमं नस्तव वदनसौन्दर्यलहरी

Tanotu kṣemaṃ nastava vadanasaundaryalaharī

परीवाहस्रोतःसरणिरिव सीमन्तसरणिः ।

Parīvāhasrotaḥsaraṇiriva sīmantasaraṇiḥ |

वहन्ती सिन्दूरं प्रबलकबरीभारतिमिर

Vahantī sindūraṃ prabalakabarībhāratimira

द्विषां वृन्दैर्बन्दीकृतमिव नवीनार्ककिरणम्

Dviṣāṃ vṛndairbandīkṛtamiva navīnārkakiraṇam

Meaning

May the parting of Your hair bring us well-being,

like a channel carrying off the overflowing flood of Your face's beauty;

it bears vermilion, as though a ray of the young sun had been taken captive

by the massed enemies of light, the darkness of Your heavy braid.

verse 45

अरालैः स्वाभाव्यादलिकलभसश्रीभिरलकैः

Arālaiḥ svābhāvyādalikalabhasaśrībhiralakaiḥ

परीतं ते वक्त्रं परिहसति पङ्केरुहरुचिम् ।

Parītaṃ te vaktraṃ parihasati paṅkeruharucim |

दरस्मेरे यस्मिन् दशनरुचिकिञ्जल्करुचिरे

Darasmere yasmin daśanarucikiñjalkarucire

सुगन्धौ माद्यन्ति स्मरदहनचक्षुर्मधुलिहः

Sugandhau mādyanti smaradahanacakṣurmadhulihaḥ

Meaning

Encircled by curls that wave of their own nature, lovely as young bees,

Your face makes light of the beauty of the lotus;

and on it, faintly smiling, radiant with the filament-gleam of Your teeth,

and fragrant, the bee-like eyes of Him who burned Kama grow drunk.

verse 46

ललाटं लावण्यद्युतिविमलमाभाति तव य

Lalāṭaṃ lāvaṇyadyutivimalamābhāti tava ya

द्द्वितीयं तन्मन्ये मकुटघटितं चन्द्रशकलम् ।

Ddvitīyaṃ tanmanye makuṭaghaṭitaṃ candraśakalam |

विपर्यासन्यासादुभयमपि संभूय च मिथः

Viparyāsanyāsādubhayamapi saṃbhūya ca mithaḥ

सुधालेपस्यूतिः परिणमति राकाहिमकरः

Sudhālepasyūtiḥ pariṇamati rākāhimakaraḥ

Meaning

Your forehead shines, spotless with the light of loveliness;

I take it for a second crescent moon, set within Your crown.

When the two are set the other way about and joined to each other,

seamed with a smear of nectar, they become the full moon.

verse 47

भ्रुवौ भुग्ने किंचिद्भुवनभयभङ्गव्यसनिनि

Bhruvau bhugne kiṃcidbhuvanabhayabhaṅgavyasanini

त्वदीये नेत्राभ्यां मधुकररुचिभ्यां धृतगुणम् ।

Tvadīye netrābhyāṃ madhukararucibhyāṃ dhṛtaguṇam |

धनुर्मन्ये सव्येतरकरगृहीतं रतिपतेः

Dhanurmanye savyetarakaragṛhītaṃ ratipateḥ

प्रकोष्ठे मुष्टौ च स्थगयति निगूढान्तरमुमे

Prakoṣṭhe muṣṭau ca sthagayati nigūḍhāntaramume

Meaning

O You who delight in breaking the fear of the worlds, Your brows, slightly arched,

strung with a bowstring by Your two eyes bright as bees,

I take for the bow of the lord of Rati, held in his left hand:

O Uma, his forearm and fist conceal the hidden middle of it.

verse 48

अहः सूते सव्यं तव नयनमर्कात्मकतया

Ahaḥ sūte savyaṃ tava nayanamarkātmakatayā

त्रियामां वामं ते सृजति रजनीनायकतया ।

Triyāmāṃ vāmaṃ te sṛjati rajanīnāyakatayā |

तृतीया ते दृष्टिर्दरदलितहेमाम्बुजरुचिः

Tṛtīyā te dṛṣṭirdaradalitahemāmbujaruciḥ

समाधत्ते संध्यां दिवसनिशयोरन्तरचरीम्

Samādhatte saṃdhyāṃ divasaniśayorantaracarīm

Meaning

Your right eye, being of the nature of the sun, brings forth the day;

Your left, as lord of the night, creates the three watches of darkness;

and Your third eye, glowing like a half-opened golden lotus,

establishes the twilight that moves between day and night.

verse 49

विशाला कल्याणी स्फुटरुचिरयोध्या कुवलयैः

Viśālā kalyāṇī sphuṭarucirayodhyā kuvalayaiḥ

कृपाधाराधारा किमपि मधुराभोगवतिका ।

Kṛpādhārādhārā kimapi madhurābhogavatikā |

अवन्ती दृष्टिस्ते बहुनगरविस्तारविजया

Avantī dṛṣṭiste bahunagaravistāravijayā

ध्रुवं तत्तन्नामव्यवहरणयोग्या विजयते

Dhruvaṃ tattannāmavyavaharaṇayogyā vijayate

Meaning

Wide, auspicious, of manifest beauty, unassailable even by blue lotuses,

a stream that holds the very flow of compassion, indescribably sweet and ample,

and protecting: Your glance surpasses the expanse of many great cities,

and is surely fit to bear each of those names in turn.

verse 50

कवीनां संदर्भस्तबकमकरन्दैकरसिकं

Kavīnāṃ saṃdarbhastabakamakarandaikarasikaṃ

कटाक्षव्याक्षेपभ्रमरकलभौ कर्णयुगलम् ।

Kaṭākṣavyākṣepabhramarakalabhau karṇayugalam |

अमुञ्चन्तौ दृष्ट्वा तव नवरसास्वादतरला

Amuñcantau dṛṣṭvā tava navarasāsvādataralā

वसूयासंसर्गादलिकनयनं किंचिदरुणम्

Vasūyāsaṃsargādalikanayanaṃ kiṃcidaruṇam

Meaning

Delighting only in the nectar of the flower-cluster that is the poets' verses,

the two young bees that are Your sidelong glances

will not leave Your ears; seeing this, trembling with the taste of the nine rasas,

Your forehead eye has grown a little red, touched by jealousy.

verse 51

शिवे शृङ्गारार्द्रा तदितरजने कुत्सनपरा

Śive śṛṅgārārdrā taditarajane kutsanaparā

सरोषा गङ्गायां गिरिशचरिते विस्मयवती ।

Saroṣā gaṅgāyāṃ giriśacarite vismayavatī |

हराहिभ्यो भीता सरसिरुहसौभाग्यजननी

Harāhibhyo bhītā sarasiruhasaubhāgyajananī

सखीषु स्मेरा ते मयि जननी दृष्टिः सकरुणा

Sakhīṣu smerā te mayi jananī dṛṣṭiḥ sakaruṇā

Meaning

Moist with love towards Shiva, scornful towards all others,

angry towards Ganga, filled with wonder at the deeds of Girisha,

afraid of Hara's serpents, bestowing loveliness upon the lotus,

smiling towards Your friends: such is Your glance, O Mother, and towards me it is full of compassion.

verse 52

गते कर्णाभ्यर्णं गरुत इव पक्ष्माणि दधती

Gate karṇābhyarṇaṃ garuta iva pakṣmāṇi dadhatī

पुरां भेत्तुश्चित्तप्रशमरसविद्रावणफले ।

Purāṃ bhettuścittapraśamarasavidrāvaṇaphale |

इमे नेत्रे गोत्राधरपतिकुलोत्तंसकलिके

Ime netre gotrādharapatikulottaṃsakalike

तवाकर्णाकृष्टस्मरशरविलासं कलयतः

Tavākarṇākṛṣṭasmaraśaravilāsaṃ kalayataḥ

Meaning

Reaching close to Your ears, bearing lashes like feathers,

and bearing the fruit of melting the calm in the heart of the destroyer of the three cities:

O bud that crowns the family of the lord of mountains,

these two eyes of Yours take on the very beauty of Kama's arrow drawn back to the ear.

verse 53

विभक्तत्रैवर्ण्यं व्यतिकरितलीलाञ्जनतया

Vibhaktatraivarṇyaṃ vyatikaritalīlāñjanatayā

विभाति त्वन्नेत्रत्रितयमिदमीशानदयिते ।

Vibhāti tvannetratritayamidamīśānadayite |

पुनः स्रष्टुं देवान् द्रुहिणहरिरुद्रानुपरतान्

Punaḥ sraṣṭuṃ devān druhiṇaharirudrānuparatān

रजः सत्त्वं बिभ्रत्तम इति गुणानां त्रयमिव

Rajaḥ sattvaṃ bibhrattama iti guṇānāṃ trayamiva

Meaning

Divided into three colours by the playful collyrium mingled upon them,

these three eyes of Yours shine, O beloved of Ishana,

as though bearing the three gunas, rajas, sattva and tamas,

in order to create anew Brahma, Hari and Rudra, who had ceased to be.

verse 54

पवित्रीकर्तुं नः पशुपतिपराधीनहृदये

Pavitrīkartuṃ naḥ paśupatiparādhīnahṛdaye

दयामित्रैर्नेत्रैररुणधवलश्यामरुचिभिः ।

Dayāmitrairnetrairaruṇadhavalaśyāmarucibhiḥ |

नदः शोणो गङ्गा तपनतनयेति ध्रुवममुं

Nadaḥ śoṇo gaṅgā tapanatanayeti dhruvamamuṃ

त्रयाणां तीर्थानामुपनयसि संभेदमनघम्

Trayāṇāṃ tīrthānāmupanayasi saṃbhedamanagham

Meaning

O You whose heart is given wholly to Pashupati, to make us pure,

with Your eyes that are friends of compassion, glowing red, white and dark,

You surely bring to us the flawless confluence of three sacred waters:

the red Shona river, the Ganga, and the Yamuna, daughter of the sun.

verse 55

निमेषोन्मेषाभ्यां प्रलयमुदयं याति जगती

Nimeṣonmeṣābhyāṃ pralayamudayaṃ yāti jagatī

तवेत्याहुः सन्तो धरणिधरराजन्यतनये ।

Tavetyāhuḥ santo dharaṇidhararājanyatanaye |

त्वदुन्मेषाज्जातं जगदिदमशेषं प्रलयतः

Tvadunmeṣājjātaṃ jagadidamaśeṣaṃ pralayataḥ

परित्रातुं शङ्के परिहृतनिमेषास्तव दृशः

Paritrātuṃ śaṅke parihṛtanimeṣāstava dṛśaḥ

Meaning

The good say, O daughter of the king of mountains,

that with the closing and opening of Your eyes the world meets dissolution and rises again;

so I suspect that, to save from destruction this whole world

born of Your opening gaze, Your eyes have given up blinking altogether.

verse 56

तवापर्णे कर्णेजपनयनपैशुन्यचकिता

Tavāparṇe karṇejapanayanapaiśunyacakitā

निलीयन्ते तोये नियतमनिमेषाः शफरिकाः ।

Nilīyante toye niyatamanimeṣāḥ śapharikāḥ |

इयं च श्रीर्बद्धच्छदपुटकवाटं कुवलयम्

Iyaṃ ca śrīrbaddhacchadapuṭakavāṭaṃ kuvalayam

जहाति प्रत्यूषे निशि च विघटय्य प्रविशति

Jahāti pratyūṣe niśi ca vighaṭayya praviśati

Meaning

O Aparna, frightened by the tale-bearing of Your eyes that reach as far as Your ears,

the little fish surely hide themselves in the water, never closing their eyes;

and their beauty leaves the blue lotus at daybreak, its petal-doors closed,

and at nightfall throws them open and enters in once more.

verse 57

दृशा द्राघीयस्या दरदलितनीलोत्पलरुचा

Dṛśā drāghīyasyā daradalitanīlotpalarucā

दवीयांसं दीनं स्नपय कृपया मामपि शिवे ।

Davīyāṃsaṃ dīnaṃ snapaya kṛpayā māmapi śive |

अनेनायं धन्यो भवति न च ते हानिरियता

Anenāyaṃ dhanyo bhavati na ca te hāniriyatā

वने वा हर्म्ये वा समकरनिपातो हिमकरः

Vane vā harmye vā samakaranipāto himakaraḥ

Meaning

With Your long glance, bright as a half-opened blue lotus,

bathe me too in compassion, wretched and far off as I am;

by this he becomes blessed, and You lose nothing at all thereby,

for the moon casts its rays alike upon the forest and upon the palace.

verse 58

अरालं ते पालीयुगलमगराजन्यतनये

Arālaṃ te pālīyugalamagarājanyatanaye

न केषामाधत्ते कुसुमशरकोदण्डकुतुकम् ।

Na keṣāmādhatte kusumaśarakodaṇḍakutukam |

तिरश्चीनो यत्र श्रवणपथमुल्लङ्घ्य विलस

Tiraścīno yatra śravaṇapathamullaṅghya vilasa

न्नपाङ्गव्यासङ्गो दिशति शरसंधानधिषणाम्

Nnapāṅgavyāsaṅgo diśati śarasaṃdhānadhiṣaṇām

Meaning

O daughter of the king of mountains, in whom does the curved pair of Your eye-corners

not awaken the fancy of the flower-archer's bow?

For there Your sidelong glance, slanting past the path of the ear and shining,

gives the impression of an arrow being fitted to the string.

verse 59

स्फुरद्गण्डाभोगप्रतिफलितताटङ्कयुगलं

Sphuradgaṇḍābhogapratiphalitatāṭaṅkayugalaṃ

चतुश्चक्रं मन्ये तव मुखमिदं मन्मथरथम् ।

Catuścakraṃ manye tava mukhamidaṃ manmatharatham |

यमारुह्य द्रुह्यत्यवनिरथमर्केन्दुचरणं

Yamāruhya druhyatyavanirathamarkenducaraṇaṃ

महावीरो मारः प्रमथपतये सज्जितवते

Mahāvīro māraḥ pramathapataye sajjitavate

Meaning

With the pair of ear-ornaments reflected on the shining expanse of Your cheeks,

I take this face of Yours for the four-wheeled chariot of Manmatha,

mounting which the great hero Mara makes war upon the lord of the Pramathas,

who has readied the earth as his chariot, with the sun and moon for its wheels.

verse 60

सरस्वत्याः सूक्तीरमृतलहरीकौशलहरीः

Sarasvatyāḥ sūktīramṛtalaharīkauśalaharīḥ

पिबन्त्याः शर्वाणि श्रवणचुलुकाभ्यामविरलम् ।

Pibantyāḥ śarvāṇi śravaṇaculukābhyāmaviralam |

चमत्कारश्लाघाचलितशिरसः कुण्डलगणो

Camatkāraślāghācalitaśirasaḥ kuṇḍalagaṇo

झणत्कारैस्तारैः प्रतिवचनमाचष्ट इव ते

Jhaṇatkāraistāraiḥ prativacanamācaṣṭa iva te

Meaning

O Sharvani, as You drink without pause, through the cupped hollows of Your ears,

Saraswati's fine words that steal away the charm of waves of nectar,

Your head moves in praise of their charm, and Your rows of earrings

seem, with their high ringing sound, to be giving her an answer.

verse 61

असौ नासावंशस्तुहिनगिरिवंशध्वजपटि

Asau nāsāvaṃśastuhinagirivaṃśadhvajapaṭi

त्वदीयो नेदीयः फलतु फलमस्माकमुचितम् ।

Tvadīyo nedīyaḥ phalatu phalamasmākamucitam |

वहन्नन्तर्मुक्ताः शिशिरतरनिश्वासगलितं

Vahannantarmuktāḥ śiśirataraniśvāsagalitaṃ

समृद्ध्या यत्तासां बहिरपि च मुक्तामणिधरः

Samṛddhyā yattāsāṃ bahirapi ca muktāmaṇidharaḥ

Meaning

This bamboo stem that is Your nose, banner of the snow-mountain's line,

being so near to us, may it yield us the fruit that we deserve;

for it carries pearls within, and by their sheer abundance one has slipped out with Your cool breath,

so that it wears a pearl on the outside as well.

verse 62

प्रकृत्या रक्तायास्तव सुदति दन्तच्छदरुचेः

Prakṛtyā raktāyāstava sudati dantacchadaruceḥ

प्रवक्ष्ये सादृश्यं जनयतु फलं विद्रुमलता ।

Pravakṣye sādṛśyaṃ janayatu phalaṃ vidrumalatā |

न बिम्बं तद्बिम्बप्रतिफलनरागादरुणितं

Na bimbaṃ tadbimbapratiphalanarāgādaruṇitaṃ

तुलामध्यारोढुं कथमिव विलज्जेत कलया

Tulāmadhyāroḍhuṃ kathamiva vilajjeta kalayā

Meaning

O You of lovely teeth, for the natural redness that shines upon Your lips

I shall offer a comparison: let the coral creeper first bear fruit;

not the bimba fruit, for that is reddened only by reflecting those very lips,

so how would it not be ashamed to climb into the scale, even by a fraction?

verse 63

स्मितज्योत्स्नाजालं तव वदनचन्द्रस्य पिबतां

Smitajyotsnājālaṃ tava vadanacandrasya pibatāṃ

चकोराणामासीदतिरसतया चञ्चुजडिमा ।

Cakorāṇāmāsīdatirasatayā cañcujaḍimā |

अतस्ते शीतांशोरमृतलहरीमम्लरुचयः

Ataste śītāṃśoramṛtalaharīmamlarucayaḥ

पिबन्ति स्वच्छन्दं निशि निशि भृशं काञ्जिकधिया

Pibanti svacchandaṃ niśi niśi bhṛśaṃ kāñjikadhiyā

Meaning

The chakora birds who drank the moonlight web of the smile from Your moon-face

found their beaks grown numb from the sheer excess of its sweetness;

so now, craving something sour, they freely drink night after night

the nectar-wave of the cold-rayed moon, taking it for sour gruel.

verse 64

अविश्रान्तं पत्युर्गुणगणकथाम्रेडनजपा

Aviśrāntaṃ patyurguṇagaṇakathāmreḍanajapā

जपापुष्पच्छाया तव जननि जिह्वा जयति सा ।

Japāpuṣpacchāyā tava janani jihvā jayati sā |

यदग्रासीनायाः स्फटिकदृषदच्छच्छविमयी

Yadagrāsīnāyāḥ sphaṭikadṛṣadacchacchavimayī

सरस्वत्या मूर्तिः परिणमति माणिक्यवपुषा

Sarasvatyā mūrtiḥ pariṇamati māṇikyavapuṣā

Meaning

Ceaselessly repeating over the tale of Your husband's host of virtues,

O Mother, Your tongue, red as the hibiscus flower, stands triumphant;

for Saraswati, seated at its tip, whose form is clear as a slab of crystal,

is transformed into a body of ruby.

verse 65

रणे जित्वा दैत्यानपहृतशिरस्त्रैः कवचिभिर्

Raṇe jitvā daityānapahṛtaśirastraiḥ kavacibhir

निवृत्तैश्चण्डांशत्रिपुरहरनिर्माल्यविमुखैः ।

Nivṛttaiścaṇḍāṃśatripuraharanirmālyavimukhaiḥ |

विशाखेन्द्रोपेन्द्रैः शशिविशदकर्पूरशकला

Viśākhendropendraiḥ śaśiviśadakarpūraśakalā

विलीयन्ते मातस्तव वदनताम्बूलकबलाः

Vilīyante mātastava vadanatāmbūlakabalāḥ

Meaning

Having conquered the daityas in battle, their helmets laid aside, still in their armour,

returning, and turning away from Chandesha's portion, the leavings of the destroyer of the three cities,

Vishakha, Indra and Upendra receive the morsels bright with camphor white as the moon,

the betel from Your own mouth, O Mother, and there they melt away.

verse 66

विपञ्च्या गायन्ती विविधमपदानं पशुपतेः

Vipañcyā gāyantī vividhamapadānaṃ paśupateḥ

त्वयारब्धे वक्तुं चलितशिरसा साधुवचने ।

Tvayārabdhe vaktuṃ calitaśirasā sādhuvacane |

तदीयैर्माधुर्यैरपलपिततन्त्रीकलरवां

Tadīyairmādhuryairapalapitatantrīkalaravāṃ

निजां वीणां वाणी निचुलयति चोलेन निभृतम्

Nijāṃ vīṇāṃ vāṇī niculayati colena nibhṛtam

Meaning

As Saraswati sings to her vina the many exploits of Pashupati,

and You, moving Your head, begin to utter a word of approval,

the sweetness of Your words drowns out the murmur of her strings,

and Vani quietly covers her own vina with its cloth.

verse 67

कराग्रेण स्पृष्टं तुहिनगिरिणा वत्सलतया

Karāgreṇa spṛṣṭaṃ tuhinagiriṇā vatsalatayā

गिरीशेनोदस्तं मुहुरधरपानाकुलतया ।

Girīśenodastaṃ muhuradharapānākulatayā |

करग्राह्यं शम्भोर्मुखमुकुरवृन्तं गिरिसुते

Karagrāhyaṃ śambhormukhamukuravṛntaṃ girisute

कथङ्कारं ब्रूमस्तव चिबुकमौपम्यरहितम्

Kathaṅkāraṃ brūmastava cibukamaupamyarahitam

Meaning

Touched by the snow-mountain's fingertips in tenderness,

lifted again and again by Girisha in his eagerness to drink Your lips,

held in Shambhu's hand, the handle of the mirror that is Your face, O daughter of the mountain:

how shall we ever speak of Your chin, which is beyond all comparison?

verse 68

भुजाश्लेषान्नित्यं पुरदमयितुः कण्टकवती

Bhujāśleṣānnityaṃ puradamayituḥ kaṇṭakavatī

तव ग्रीवा धत्ते मुखकमलनालश्रियमियम् ।

Tava grīvā dhatte mukhakamalanālaśriyamiyam |

स्वतः श्वेता कालागुरुबहुलजम्बालमलिना

Svataḥ śvetā kālāgurubahulajambālamalinā

मृणालीलालित्यम् वहति यदधो हारलतिका

Mṛṇālīlālityam vahati yadadho hāralatikā

Meaning

Ever thrilled into gooseflesh by the embrace of the arms of the destroyer of the cities,

this neck of Yours bears the grace of the stalk of Your lotus face;

and the pearl-string below it, white by nature but darkened with thick black aloe paste,

carries the very grace of a lotus fibre.

verse 69

गले रेखास्तिस्रो गतिगमकगीतैकनिपुणे

Gale rekhāstisro gatigamakagītaikanipuṇe

विवाहव्यानद्धप्रगुणगुणसंख्याप्रतिभुवः ।

Vivāhavyānaddhapraguṇaguṇasaṃkhyāpratibhuvaḥ |

विराजन्ते नानाविधमधुररागाकरभुवां

Virājante nānāvidhamadhurarāgākarabhuvāṃ

त्रयाणां ग्रामाणां स्थितिनियमसीमान इव ते

Trayāṇāṃ grāmāṇāṃ sthitiniyamasīmāna iva te

Meaning

O You unmatched in movement, grace-note and song, the three lines upon Your throat

stand witness to the number of auspicious threads bound there at Your wedding;

and they shine as though they were the markers fixing the bounds

of the three musical scales, the sources of every kind of sweet raga.

verse 70

मृणालीमृद्वीनां तव भुजलतानां चतसृणां

Mṛṇālīmṛdvīnāṃ tava bhujalatānāṃ catasṛṇāṃ

चतुर्भिः सौन्दर्यं सरसिजभवः स्तौति वदनैः ।

Caturbhiḥ saundaryaṃ sarasijabhavaḥ stauti vadanaiḥ |

नखेभ्यः सन्त्रस्यन् प्रथममथनादन्धकरिपो

Nakhebhyaḥ santrasyan prathamamathanādandhakaripo

श्चतुर्णां शीर्षाणां सममभयहस्तार्पणधिया

Ścaturṇāṃ śīrṣāṇāṃ samamabhayahastārpaṇadhiyā

Meaning

The beauty of Your four creeper-arms, soft as lotus fibres,

the lotus-born praises with all four of his faces;

for he dreads the nails of the foe of Andhaka, who once struck off a head of his,

and hopes to secure the gesture of safety for all four of his heads at once.

verse 71

नखानामुद्द्योतैर्नवनलिनरागं विहसतां

Nakhānāmuddyotairnavanalinarāgaṃ vihasatāṃ

कराणां ते कान्तिं कथय कथयामः कथमुमे ।

Karāṇāṃ te kāntiṃ kathaya kathayāmaḥ kathamume |

कयाचिद्वा साम्यं भजतु कलया हन्त कमलं

Kayācidvā sāmyaṃ bhajatu kalayā hanta kamalaṃ

यदि क्रीडल्लक्ष्मीचरणतललाक्षारुणदलम्

Yadi krīḍallakṣmīcaraṇatalalākṣāruṇadalam

Meaning

Your hands, whose nails by their brilliance mock the hue of a fresh lotus,

tell us, O Uma, how are we to describe their loveliness?

Ah, perhaps the lotus might come to some slight likeness, by a fraction,

if only its petals were reddened by the lac from Lakshmi's soles as she plays upon it.

verse 72

समं देवि स्कन्दद्विपवदनपीतं स्तनयुगं

Samaṃ devi skandadvipavadanapītaṃ stanayugaṃ

तवेदं नः खेदं हरतु सततं प्रस्नुतमुखम् ।

Tavedaṃ naḥ khedaṃ haratu satataṃ prasnutamukham |

यदालोक्याशङ्काकुलितहृदयो हासजनकः

Yadālokyāśaṅkākulitahṛdayo hāsajanakaḥ

स्वकुम्भौ हेरम्बः परिमृशति हस्तेन झडिति

Svakumbhau herambaḥ parimṛśati hastena jhaḍiti

Meaning

O Devi, may this pair of Your breasts, suckled alike by Skanda and the elephant-faced one,

ever flowing with milk, take away our sorrow;

for seeing them, his heart troubled by a doubt, and so causing laughter,

Heramba at once feels his own temple-bosses with his hand.

verse 73

अमू ते वक्षोजावमृतरसमाणिक्यकुतुपौ

Amū te vakṣojāvamṛtarasamāṇikyakutupau

न संदेहस्पन्दो नगपतिपताके मनसि नः ।

Na saṃdehaspando nagapatipatāke manasi naḥ |

पिबन्तौ तौ यस्मादविदितवधूसङ्गरसिकौ

Pibantau tau yasmādaviditavadhūsaṅgarasikau

कुमारावद्यापि द्विरदवदनक्रौञ्चदलनौ

Kumārāvadyāpi dviradavadanakrauñcadalanau

Meaning

These two breasts of Yours are ruby vessels holding the essence of nectar,

O banner of the lord of mountains, and of this there is not a flicker of doubt in our mind;

for the two who drank at them, strangers still to the joy of a wife's embrace,

the elephant-faced one and the render of Krauncha, remain boys to this very day.

verse 74

वहत्यम्ब स्तम्बेरमदनुजकुम्भप्रकृतिभिः

Vahatyamba stamberamadanujakumbhaprakṛtibhiḥ

समारब्धां मुक्तामणिभिरमलां हारलतिकाम् ।

Samārabdhāṃ muktāmaṇibhiramalāṃ hāralatikām |

कुचाभोगो बिम्बाधररुचिभिरन्तः शबलितां

Kucābhogo bimbādhararucibhirantaḥ śabalitāṃ

प्रतापव्यामिश्रां पुरदमयितुः कीर्तिमिव ते

Pratāpavyāmiśrāṃ puradamayituḥ kīrtimiva te

Meaning

O Mother, the expanse of Your breast bears a spotless string of pearls,

strung with pearl-gems that came from the temples of the elephant-demon,

tinged within by the glow of Your bimba-red lips,

so that it seems the fame of the destroyer of the cities, mingled with his valour.

verse 75

तव स्तन्यं मन्ये धरणिधरकन्ये हृदयतः

Tava stanyaṃ manye dharaṇidharakanye hṛdayataḥ

पयःपारावारः परिवहति सारस्वतमिव ।

Payaḥpārāvāraḥ parivahati sārasvatamiva |

दयावत्या दत्तं द्रविडशिशुरास्वाद्य तव यत्

Dayāvatyā dattaṃ draviḍaśiśurāsvādya tava yat

कवीनां प्रौढानामजनि कमनीयः कवयिता

Kavīnāṃ prauḍhānāmajani kamanīyaḥ kavayitā

Meaning

O daughter of the mountain, I think Your milk is an ocean of milk

welling up from Your heart, and flowing as though it were the very essence of Saraswati;

for the Dravidian child, tasting what You in Your compassion gave,

became a poet lovely among the most accomplished of poets.

verse 76

हरक्रोधज्वालावलिभिरवलीढेन वपुषा

Harakrodhajvālāvalibhiravalīḍhena vapuṣā

गभीरे ते नाभीसरसि कृतसङ्गो मनसिजः ।

Gabhīre te nābhīsarasi kṛtasaṅgo manasijaḥ |

समुत्तस्थौ तस्मादचलतनये धूमलतिका

Samuttasthau tasmādacalatanaye dhūmalatikā

जनस्तां जानीते तव जननि रोमावलिरिति

Janastāṃ jānīte tava janani romāvaliriti

Meaning

His body licked all over by the ranks of flames of Hara's wrath,

Manasija plunged for refuge into the deep lake of Your navel;

and from it, O daughter of the mountain, there rose a slender wisp of smoke,

and people know it, O Mother, as the line of down upon Your body.

verse 77

यदेतत् कालिन्दीतनुतरतरङ्गाकृति शिवे

Yadetat kālindītanutarataraṅgākṛti śive

कृशे मध्ये किंचिज्जननि तव यद्भाति सुधियाम् ।

Kṛśe madhye kiṃcijjanani tava yadbhāti sudhiyām |

विमर्दादन्योऽन्यं कुचकलशयोरन्तरगतं

Vimardādanyo'nyaṃ kucakalaśayorantaragataṃ

तनूभूतं व्योम प्रविशदिव नाभिं कुहरिणीम्

Tanūbhūtaṃ vyoma praviśadiva nābhiṃ kuhariṇīm

Meaning

O consort of Shiva, that which shines faintly upon Your slender waist, like a thin ripple of the Yamuna,

and which the wise alone perceive there, O Mother,

is as though the sky, caught between Your two breasts and thinned by their pressing together,

were entering into the hollow of Your navel.

verse 78

स्थिरो गङ्गावर्तः स्तनमुकुलरोमावलिलता

Sthiro gaṅgāvartaḥ stanamukularomāvalilatā

कलावालं कुण्डं कुसुमशरतेजोहुतभुजः ।

Kalāvālaṃ kuṇḍaṃ kusumaśaratejohutabhujaḥ |

रतेर्लीलागारं किमपि तव नाभिर्गिरिसुते

Raterlīlāgāraṃ kimapi tava nābhirgirisute

बिलद्वारं सिद्धेर्गिरिशनयनानां विजयते

Biladvāraṃ siddhergiriśanayanānāṃ vijayate

Meaning

A still whirlpool of the Ganga; the flower-bed for the creeper of down that buds into Your breasts;

the fire-pit for the flame that is the power of the flower-arrowed god;

the pleasure-house of Rati; something beyond all describing: Your navel, O daughter of the mountain,

stands triumphant, the cave-mouth to the attainment sought by Girisha's eyes.

verse 79

निसर्गक्षीणस्य स्तनतटभरेण क्लमजुषो

Nisargakṣīṇasya stanataṭabhareṇa klamajuṣo

नमन्मूर्तेर्नारीतिलक शनकैस्त्रुट्यत इव ।

Namanmūrternārītilaka śanakaistruṭyata iva |

चिरं ते मध्यस्य त्रुटिततटिनीतीरतरुणा

Ciraṃ te madhyasya truṭitataṭinītīrataruṇā

समावस्थास्थेम्नो भवतु कुशलं शैलतनये

Samāvasthāsthemno bhavatu kuśalaṃ śailatanaye

Meaning

By nature slender, wearied by the weight of the slopes of Your breasts,

bending, and seeming slowly to be giving way, O jewel among women:

may all long be well with Your waist, whose steadiness is that of a tree

standing on the bank of a river that is crumbling away, O daughter of the mountain.

verse 80

कुचौ सद्यःस्विद्यत्तटघटितकूर्पासभिदुरौ

Kucau sadyaḥsvidyattaṭaghaṭitakūrpāsabhidurau

कषन्तौ दोर्मूले कनककलशाभौ कलयता ।

Kaṣantau dormūle kanakakalaśābhau kalayatā |

तव त्रातुं भङ्गादलमिति वलग्नं तनुभुवा

Tava trātuṃ bhaṅgādalamiti valagnaṃ tanubhuvā

त्रिधा नद्धं देवि त्रिवलि लवलीवल्लिभिरिव

Tridhā naddhaṃ devi trivali lavalīvallibhiriva

Meaning

Your breasts, bursting the bodice clinging to their swiftly moistening slopes,

and rubbing against Your upper arms, resembling two pitchers of gold:

seeing them, and judging this enough to save Your waist from breaking,

the bodiless god has bound it threefold, O Devi, with Your three folds, as with lavali creepers.

verse 81

गुरुत्वं विस्तारं क्षितिधरपतिः पार्वति निजा

Gurutvaṃ vistāraṃ kṣitidharapatiḥ pārvati nijā

न्नितम्बादाच्छिद्य त्वयि हरणरूपेण निदधे ।

Nnitambādācchidya tvayi haraṇarūpeṇa nidadhe |

अतस्ते विस्तीर्णो गुरुरयमशेषां वसुमतीं

Ataste vistīrṇo gururayamaśeṣāṃ vasumatīṃ

नितम्बप्राग्भारः स्थगयति लघुत्वं नयति च

Nitambaprāgbhāraḥ sthagayati laghutvaṃ nayati ca

Meaning

O Parvati, the lord of mountains took weight and breadth from his own

slopes and bestowed them upon You as a bridal gift;

and so this broad and heavy expanse of Your hips covers the whole earth

and renders it light by comparison.

verse 82

करीन्द्राणां शुण्डान् कनककदलीकाण्डपटली

Karīndrāṇāṃ śuṇḍān kanakakadalīkāṇḍapaṭalī

मुभाभ्यामूरुभ्यामुभयमपि निर्जित्य भवती ।

Mubhābhyāmūrubhyāmubhayamapi nirjitya bhavatī |

सुवृत्ताभ्यां पत्युः प्रणतिकठिनाभ्यां गिरिसुते

Suvṛttābhyāṃ patyuḥ praṇatikaṭhinābhyāṃ girisute

विजिग्ये जानुभ्यां विबुधकरिकुम्भद्वयमसि

Vijigye jānubhyāṃ vibudhakarikumbhadvayamasi

Meaning

Having conquered with both Your thighs the trunks of lordly elephants

and the clustered stems of the golden plantain, both alike,

with Your knees, well-rounded and hardened by bowing before Your husband,

O daughter of the mountain, You have vanquished the two temple-bosses of the elephant of the gods.

verse 83

पराजेतुं रुद्रं द्विगुणशरगर्भौ गिरिसुते

Parājetuṃ rudraṃ dviguṇaśaragarbhau girisute

निषङ्गौ जङ्घे ते विषमविशिखो बाढमकृत ।

Niṣaṅgau jaṅghe te viṣamaviśikho bāḍhamakṛta |

यदग्रे दृश्यन्ते दशशरफलाः पादयुगली

Yadagre dṛśyante daśaśaraphalāḥ pādayugalī

नखाग्रच्छद्मानः सुरमकुटशाणैकनिशिताः

Nakhāgracchadmānaḥ suramakuṭaśāṇaikaniśitāḥ

Meaning

To conquer Rudra, O daughter of the mountain, the god of the five arrows

surely made Your two shanks into quivers, each holding twice five arrows;

for at their tips are seen ten arrowheads, in the guise of the nails

of Your two feet, whetted upon the single grindstone of the crowns of the gods.

verse 84

श्रुतीनां मूर्धानो दधति तव यौ शेखरतया

Śrutīnāṃ mūrdhāno dadhati tava yau śekharatayā

ममाप्येतौ मातः शिरसि दयया धेहि चरणौ ।

Mamāpyetau mātaḥ śirasi dayayā dhehi caraṇau |

ययोः पाद्यं पाथः पशुपतिजटाजूटतटिनी

Yayoḥ pādyaṃ pāthaḥ paśupatijaṭājūṭataṭinī

ययोर्लाक्षालक्ष्मीररुणहरिचूडामणिरुचिः

Yayorlākṣālakṣmīraruṇaharicūḍāmaṇiruciḥ

Meaning

Those two feet of Yours which the summits of the Vedas bear as their crest,

place them too, O Mother, in compassion, upon my head;

the feet whose washing-water is the river in Pashupati's matted locks,

and whose lac-red lustre is the glow of the crest-jewel upon Hari's head.

verse 85

नमोवाकं ब्रूमो नयनरमणीयाय पदयो

Namovākaṃ brūmo nayanaramaṇīyāya padayo

स्तवास्मै द्वन्द्वाय स्फुटरुचिरसालक्तकवते ।

Stavāsmai dvandvāya sphuṭarucirasālaktakavate |

असूयत्यत्यन्तं यदभिहननाय स्पृहयते

Asūyatyatyantaṃ yadabhihananāya spṛhayate

पशूनामीशानः प्रमदवनकङ्केलितरवे

Paśūnāmīśānaḥ pramadavanakaṅkelitarave

Meaning

We utter our salutation to this pair of Your feet, delightful to the eyes,

bright with clear and lovely lac;

for the lord of all creatures is exceedingly jealous of that ashoka tree

in the pleasure grove, which longs to be struck by them.

verse 86

मृषा कृत्वा गोत्रस्खलनमथ वैलक्ष्यनमितं

Mṛṣā kṛtvā gotraskhalanamatha vailakṣyanamitaṃ

ललाटे भर्तारं चरणकमले ताडयति ते ।

Lalāṭe bhartāraṃ caraṇakamale tāḍayati te |

चिरादन्तःशल्यं दहनकृतमुन्मूलितवता

Cirādantaḥśalyaṃ dahanakṛtamunmūlitavatā

तुलाकोटिक्वाणैः किलिकिलितमीशानरिपुणा

Tulākoṭikvāṇaiḥ kilikilitamīśānaripuṇā

Meaning

Pretending He had let another woman's name slip, and when He bent in embarrassment,

You struck Your husband upon the forehead with Your lotus foot;

and the foe of Ishana, who had long carried within him the dart of being burnt to ash,

tore it out at last and shouted for joy through the jingling of Your anklets.

verse 87

हिमानीहन्तव्यं हिमगिरिनिवासैकचतुरौ

Himānīhantavyaṃ himagirinivāsaikacaturau

निशायां निद्राणं निशि चरमभागे च विशदौ ।

Niśāyāṃ nidrāṇaṃ niśi caramabhāge ca viśadau |

वरं लक्ष्मीपात्रं श्रियमतिसृजन्तौ समयिनां

Varaṃ lakṣmīpātraṃ śriyamatisṛjantau samayināṃ

सरोजं त्वत्पादौ जननि जयतश्चित्रमिह किम्

Sarojaṃ tvatpādau janani jayataścitramiha kim

Meaning

The lotus is destroyed by snow; Your feet are wholly at home on the snow mountain.

The lotus sleeps at night; Your feet are radiant even in the last watch of the night.

The lotus is at best a seat for Lakshmi; Your feet grant abundance to those who keep the observance.

O Mother, Your feet surpass the lotus: what wonder is there in that?

verse 88

पदं ते कीर्तीनां प्रपदमपदं देवि विपदां

Padaṃ te kīrtīnāṃ prapadamapadaṃ devi vipadāṃ

कथं नीतं सद्भिः कठिनकमठीकर्परतुलाम् ।

Kathaṃ nītaṃ sadbhiḥ kaṭhinakamaṭhīkarparatulām |

कथं वा बाहुभ्यामुपयमनकाले पुरभिदा

Kathaṃ vā bāhubhyāmupayamanakāle purabhidā

यदादाय न्यस्तं दृषदि दयमानेन मनसा

Yadādāya nyastaṃ dṛṣadi dayamānena manasā

Meaning

The forepart of Your foot, O Devi, is the seat of all renown and no seat for misfortune;

how then did the good ever bring it into comparison with a hard tortoise shell?

And how, at the hour of the wedding, did the destroyer of the cities take it in His hands

and set it upon the grinding stone, His heart full of tenderness?

verse 89

नखैर्नाकस्त्रीणां करकमलसंकोचशशिभि

Nakhairnākastrīṇāṃ karakamalasaṃkocaśaśibhi

स्तरूणां दिव्यानां हसत इव ते चण्डि चरणौ ।

Starūṇāṃ divyānāṃ hasata iva te caṇḍi caraṇau |

फलानि स्वःस्थेभ्यः किसलयकराग्रेण ददतां

Phalāni svaḥsthebhyaḥ kisalayakarāgreṇa dadatāṃ

दरिद्रेभ्यो भद्रां श्रियमनिशमह्नाय ददतौ

Daridrebhyo bhadrāṃ śriyamaniśamahnāya dadatau

Meaning

With nails that are moons making the lotus hands of the women of heaven fold shut,

Your feet, O Chandi, seem to laugh at the trees of heaven;

for those trees, with their tendril hands, give their fruits only to the dwellers in heaven,

while Your feet give auspicious abundance to the poor, at once and unceasingly.

verse 90

ददाने दीनेभ्यः श्रियमनिशमाशानुसदृशी

Dadāne dīnebhyaḥ śriyamaniśamāśānusadṛśī

ममन्दं सौन्दर्यप्रकरमकरन्दम् विकिरति ।

Mamandaṃ saundaryaprakaramakarandam vikirati |

तवास्मिन् मन्दारस्तबकसुभगे यातु चरणे

Tavāsmin mandārastabakasubhage yātu caraṇe

निमज्जन्मज्जीवः करणचरणः षट्चरणताम्

Nimajjanmajjīvaḥ karaṇacaraṇaḥ ṣaṭcaraṇatām

Meaning

Giving ceaselessly to the wretched a wealth measured to their every hope,

and scattering unstintingly the nectar that is the mass of Your beauty,

upon this foot of Yours, lovely as a cluster of mandara blossoms,

may my life, sinking in with the senses for its feet, attain the state of a six-footed bee.

verse 91

पदन्यासक्रीडापरिचयमिवारब्धुमनसः

Padanyāsakrīḍāparicayamivārabdhumanasaḥ

स्खलन्तस्ते खेलं भवनकलहंसा न जहति ।

Skhalantaste khelaṃ bhavanakalahaṃsā na jahati |

अतस्तेषां शिक्षां सुभगमणिमञ्जीररणित

Atasteṣāṃ śikṣāṃ subhagamaṇimañjīraraṇita

च्छलादाचक्षाणं चरणकमलं चारुचरिते

Cchalādācakṣāṇaṃ caraṇakamalaṃ cārucarite

Meaning

As though wishing to learn the play of Your footsteps,

the royal geese of Your palace stumble along and will not leave Your play;

and so, O You of lovely conduct, Your lotus foot seems to be teaching them,

under the pretext of the ringing of its lovely jewelled anklets.

verse 92

गतास्ते मञ्चत्वं द्रुहिणहरिरुद्रेश्वरभृतः

Gatāste mañcatvaṃ druhiṇaharirudreśvarabhṛtaḥ

शिवः स्वच्छच्छायाघटितकपटप्रच्छदपटः ।

Śivaḥ svacchacchāyāghaṭitakapaṭapracchadapaṭaḥ |

त्वदीयानां भासां प्रतिफलनरागारुणतया

Tvadīyānāṃ bhāsāṃ pratiphalanarāgāruṇatayā

शरीरी शृङ्गारो रस इव दृशां दोग्धि कुतुकम्

Śarīrī śṛṅgāro rasa iva dṛśāṃ dogdhi kutukam

Meaning

Brahma, Hari, Rudra and Ishvara have become the legs that bear Your couch;

and Shiva is the coverlet, seeming a disguise woven of His own clear radiance;

and being reddened by the reflected glow of Your own radiance,

He milks the eyes of their wonder, like the sentiment of love made flesh.

verse 93

अराला केशेषु प्रकृतिसरला मन्दहसिते

Arālā keśeṣu prakṛtisaralā mandahasite

शिरीषाभा चित्ते दृषदुपलशोभा कुचतटे ।

Śirīṣābhā citte dṛṣadupalaśobhā kucataṭe |

भृशं तन्वी मध्ये पृथुरुरसिजारोहविषये

Bhṛśaṃ tanvī madhye pṛthururasijārohaviṣaye

जगत्त्रातुं शम्भोर्जयति करुणा काचिदरुणा

Jagattrātuṃ śambhorjayati karuṇā kācidaruṇā

Meaning

Curling in Your hair, but naturally straight in Your gentle smile;

soft as the shirisha flower in Your heart, yet firm as stone at Your breast;

exceedingly slender at the waist, yet ample where the breasts rise:

triumphant is that indescribable crimson compassion of Shambhu, come to save the world.

verse 94

कलङ्कः कस्तूरी रजनिकरबिम्बं जलमयं

Kalaṅkaḥ kastūrī rajanikarabimbaṃ jalamayaṃ

कलाभिः कर्पूरैर्मरकतकरण्डं निबिडितम् ।

Kalābhiḥ karpūrairmarakatakaraṇḍaṃ nibiḍitam |

अतस्त्वद्भोगेन प्रतिदिनमिदं रिक्तकुहरं

Atastvadbhogena pratidinamidaṃ riktakuharaṃ

विधिर्भूयो भूयो निबिडयति नूनं तव कृते

Vidhirbhūyo bhūyo nibiḍayati nūnaṃ tava kṛte

Meaning

The dark mark is musk, the moon's orb a vessel of water,

an emerald casket packed tight with camphor, which are its digits:

and so, emptied of its contents each day by Your enjoyment of it,

the Creator surely fills up again and again, for Your sake alone.

verse 95

पुरारातेरन्तःपुरमसि ततस्त्वच्चरणयोः

Purārāterantaḥpuramasi tatastvaccaraṇayoḥ

सपर्यामर्यादा तरलकरणानामसुलभा ।

Saparyāmaryādā taralakaraṇānāmasulabhā |

तथा ह्येते नीताः शतमखमुखाः सिद्धिमतुलां

Tathā hyete nītāḥ śatamakhamukhāḥ siddhimatulāṃ

तव द्वारोपान्तस्थितिभिरणिमाद्याभिरमराः

Tava dvāropāntasthitibhiraṇimādyābhiramarāḥ

Meaning

You are the inner chamber of the foe of the cities; and therefore the rule of worship

at Your feet is hard for those of unsteady senses to reach;

for even Indra of the hundred sacrifices and the other gods were brought to matchless attainment

by the powers of anima and the rest, who stand at Your very doorway.

verse 96

कलत्रं वैधात्रं कतिकति भजन्ते न कवयः

Kalatraṃ vaidhātraṃ katikati bhajante na kavayaḥ

श्रियो देव्याः को वा न भवति पतिः कैरपि धनैः ।

Śriyo devyāḥ ko vā na bhavati patiḥ kairapi dhanaiḥ |

महादेवं हित्वा तव सति सतीनामचरमे

Mahādevaṃ hitvā tava sati satīnāmacarame

कुचाभ्यामासङ्गः कुरवकतरोरप्यसुलभः

Kucābhyāmāsaṅgaḥ kuravakatarorapyasulabhaḥ

Meaning

How many poets do not win the consort of the Creator, the goddess of speech?

And who, by some wealth or other, does not become the husband of the goddess Shri?

But, O chaste one, foremost among the virtuous, apart from Mahadeva

the embrace of Your breasts is beyond reach even for the kuravaka tree.

verse 97

गिरामाहुर्देवीं द्रुहिणगृहिणीमागमविदो

Girāmāhurdevīṃ druhiṇagṛhiṇīmāgamavido

हरेः पत्नीं पद्मां हरसहचरीमद्रितनयाम् ।

Hareḥ patnīṃ padmāṃ harasahacarīmadritanayām |

तुरीया कापि त्वं दुरधिगमनिःसीममहिमा

Turīyā kāpi tvaṃ duradhigamaniḥsīmamahimā

महामाया विश्वं भ्रमयसि परब्रह्ममहिषि

Mahāmāyā viśvaṃ bhramayasi parabrahmamahiṣi

Meaning

Those versed in scripture call the goddess of speech the consort of Brahma,

Padma the wife of Hari, and the mountain's daughter the companion of Hara;

but You are some fourth, whose limitless greatness cannot be reached,

the great Maya, O queen of the supreme Brahman, and You set the universe whirling.

verse 98

कदा काले मातः कथय कलितालक्तकरसं

Kadā kāle mātaḥ kathaya kalitālaktakarasaṃ

पिबेयं विद्यार्थी तव चरणनिर्णेजनजलम् ।

Pibeyaṃ vidyārthī tava caraṇanirṇejanajalam |

प्रकृत्या मूकानामपि च कविताकारणतया

Prakṛtyā mūkānāmapi ca kavitākāraṇatayā

कदा धत्ते वाणीमुखकमलताम्बूलरसताम्

Kadā dhatte vāṇīmukhakamalatāmbūlarasatām

Meaning

O Mother, tell me, when will that hour come when I, a seeker of knowledge,

shall drink the water that has washed Your feet, red with their lac?

When will it, being the very cause of poetry even in those born dumb,

take on the savour of the betel from the lotus mouth of the goddess of speech?

verse 99

सरस्वत्या लक्ष्म्या विधिहरिसपत्नो विहरते

Sarasvatyā lakṣmyā vidhiharisapatno viharate

रतेः पातिव्रत्यं शिथिलयति रम्येण वपुषा ।

Rateḥ pātivratyaṃ śithilayati ramyeṇa vapuṣā |

चिरं जीवन्नेव क्षपितपशुपाशव्यतिकरः

Ciraṃ jīvanneva kṣapitapaśupāśavyatikaraḥ

परानन्दाभिख्यम् रसयति रसं त्वद्भजनवान्

Parānandābhikhyam rasayati rasaṃ tvadbhajanavān

Meaning

He who worships You lives as a rival to Brahma and Hari through Saraswati and Lakshmi,

and by the beauty of his form he loosens even Rati's fidelity to her lord;

and living long, with the whole bondage of the fettered soul destroyed,

he savours the essence that bears the name of supreme bliss.

verse 100

प्रदीपज्वालाभिर्दिवसकरनीराजनविधिः

Pradīpajvālābhirdivasakaranīrājanavidhiḥ

सुधासूतेश्चन्द्रोपलजललवैरर्घ्यरचना ।

Sudhāsūteścandropalajalalavairarghyaracanā |

स्वकीयैरम्भोभिः सलिलनिधिसौहित्यकरणं

Svakīyairambhobhiḥ salilanidhisauhityakaraṇaṃ

त्वदीयाभिर्वाग्भिस्तव जननि वाचां स्तुतिरियम्

Tvadīyābhirvāgbhistava janani vācāṃ stutiriyam

Meaning

Waving a lamp-flame before the maker of the day;

offering water dripped from moonstones as libation to the source of nectar;

satisfying the ocean with waters that are its own:

such, O Mother of all speech, is this praise of You made with words that are Your own.

verse 101

समानीतः पद्भ्यां मणिमुकुरतामम्बरमणि

Samānītaḥ padbhyāṃ maṇimukuratāmambaramaṇi

र्भयादास्यादन्तःस्तिमितकिरणश्रेणिमसृणः ।

Rbhayādāsyādantaḥstimitakiraṇaśreṇimasṛṇaḥ |

दधाति त्वद्वक्त्रंप्रतिफलनमश्रान्तविकचं

Dadhāti tvadvaktraṃpratiphalanamaśrāntavikacaṃ

निरातङ्कं चन्द्रान्निजहृदयपङ्केरुहमिव

Nirātaṅkaṃ candrānnijahṛdayapaṅkeruhamiva

Meaning

The sun of the sky, brought down by Your feet to become a jewelled mirror,

his ranks of rays grown still and soft within, out of fear,

holds the reflection of Your face, unwearyingly open,

like his own heart-lotus, unafraid at last of the moon.

verse 102

समुद्भूतस्थूलस्तनभरमुरश्चारु हसितं

Samudbhūtasthūlastanabharamuraścāru hasitaṃ

कटाक्षे कन्दर्पः कतिचन कदम्बद्युति वपुः ।

Kaṭākṣe kandarpaḥ katicana kadambadyuti vapuḥ |

हरस्य त्वद्भ्रान्तिं मनसि जनयन्ति स्म विमलाः

Harasya tvadbhrāntiṃ manasi janayanti sma vimalāḥ

भवत्या ये भक्ताः परिणतिरमीषामियमुमे

Bhavatyā ye bhaktāḥ pariṇatiramīṣāmiyamume

Meaning

A full bosom, a breast, a lovely smile,

Kandarpa in the sidelong glance, and a body of kadamba radiance:

these arose in the minds of the pure, and gave Hara the illusion that they were You;

O Uma, this is what those who are devoted to You come at last to be.

verse 103

निधे नित्यस्मेरे निरवधिगुणे नीतिनिपुणे

Nidhe nityasmere niravadhiguṇe nītinipuṇe

निराघातज्ञाने नियमपरचित्तैकनिलये ।

Nirāghātajñāne niyamaparacittaikanilaye |

नियत्या निर्मुक्ते निखिलनिगमान्तस्तुतिपदे

Niyatyā nirmukte nikhilanigamāntastutipade

निरातङ्के नित्ये निगमय ममापि स्तुतिमिमाम्

Nirātaṅke nitye nigamaya mamāpi stutimimām

Meaning

O Treasure, ever smiling, of boundless virtues, skilled in right conduct,

of unobstructed knowledge, sole dwelling of the minds devoted to the observances,

free from all destiny, the theme of praise in every Vedanta,

free from all fear, eternal: bring this praise of mine also to its completion.

colophon

इति श्रीमत्परमहंसपरिव्राजकाचार्यस्य श्रीगोविन्दभगवत्पूज्यपादशिष्यस्य श्रीमच्छङ्करभगवतः कृतौ सौन्दर्यलहरी सम्पूर्णा॥ ॐ तत्सत्॥

Iti śrīmat-paramahaṃsaparivrājakācāryasya śrīgovindabhagavatpūjyapādaśiṣyasya śrīmacchaṅkarabhagavataḥ kṛtau saundaryalaharī sampūrṇā oṃ tat sat

Meaning

Thus is completed the Saundarya Lahari, composed by the revered Shankara, the supreme ascetic and wandering teacher, disciple of the venerable Govinda Bhagavatpada. Om tat sat.

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