{"collection":"tantra","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tantra/htg/htg15.htm","path":"tantra/htg/htg15.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tantra/htg/htg15.htm","text":"Hymns to the Goddess, by John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon), [1913]\n1\nSAITH \u012a\u015bvara:\u00a03\n I shall tell thee the hundred names of Durg\u0101.\n By the grace of this hymn the chaste\u00a04 Durg\u0101 is satisfied.\n Listen, then, thereto.\n2-13\nOM.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Chaste one.\u00a05\nVirtuous one.\u00a01\n Beloved of Bhava.\u00a02\n Spouse of Bhava.\u00a03\n The Manifested Brahman.\u00a04\n Liberatrix from the world of births and deaths.\u00a05\n Destructress of distress.\u00a06\n Victorious one.\u00a07\n Primordial one.\u00a08\n Three-eyed,\u00a09\n Holder of the spear.\u00a010\nSpouse of Him who holds the pin\u0101ka Bow.\u00a01\n Wonderful one.\u00a02\n Whose bell sounds fearfully.\u00a03\n Of great austerities.\u00a04\n Manas.\u00a05\n Buddhi.\u00a06\n Ahamk\u0101ra.\u00a07\n In the form of citta.\u00a08\n Funeral pyre.\u00a09\n Knowledge.\u00a010\n Whose substance is all mantras.\u00a011\n Reality.\u00a012\nWhose nature is the true bliss.\u00a01\n Endless one.\u00a02\n In whom are the three dispositions.\u00a03\n Accessible by devotion.\u00a04\n Auspicious.\u00a05\n Pervading all things.\u00a06\n Spouse of \u015aambu.\u00a07\n Mother of Devas.\u00a08\n Contemplation.\u00a09\n Fond of gems.\u00a010\n All knowledge.\u00a011\n Daughter of Dak\u1e63a.\u00a012\nDestroyer of Dak\u1e63a's sacrifice.\u00a01\n Who eat not even a leaf during Thy austerities.\u00a02\n Of various colour.\u00a03\n Red.\u00a04\n Having a red colour.\u00a05\n Clad in silken garment.\u00a06\n Pleased with sweet-sounding anklets.\u00a07\n Of unbounded power.\u00a08\n Terrifying.\u00a09\n Beautiful.\u00a010\n House lady.\u00a011\n Forest Durg\u0101.\u00a012\n Daughter of Matanga.\u00a013\nWorshipped by the sage Matanga.\u00a01\n Spouse of Brahm\u0101.\u00a02\n Great Ruler.\u00a03\n Aindr\u012b.\u00a04\n Kaum\u0101r\u012b.\u00a05\n Vai\u1e63\u1e47av\u012b.\u00a06\n C\u0101mund\u0101.\u00a07\n Var\u0101h\u012b.\u00a08\n Lak\u1e63m\u012b.\u00a09\n In the form of the Puru\u1e63a.\u00a010\n Pure one.\u00a011\nEssence of all.\u00a01\n Knowledge.\u00a02\n Action.\u00a03\n The Supreme One.\u00a04\n Giver of buddhi.\u00a05\n Who art all.\u00a06\n Whose love is unbounded.\u00a07\n Mounted on a bull.\u00a08\n Destructress of \u015aumbha and Ni\u015bumbha.\u00a09\n Slayer of the Asura Mahi\u1e63a.\u00a010\n Slayer of Madhu and Kaitaba.\u00a011\n Destructress of Ca\u1e47\u1e0da and Mu\u1e47\u1e0da.\u00a012\n And of all Asuras.\u00a013\nAnd of all D\u0101navas.\u00a01\n Whose substance is all \u015a\u0101stra.\u00a02\n Existence.\u00a03\n Holder of all weapons.\u00a04\n In whose hands are various weapons.\u00a05\n Holder of many weapons.\u00a06\n Virgin.\u00a07\n Maiden.\u00a08\n Kai\u1e63or\u012b.\u00a09\n Youthful.\u00a010\n Ascetic one.\u00a011\n Apraudh\u0101.\u00a012\nPraudh\u0101.\u00a01\n Old mother.\u00a02\n Giver of strength.\u00a03\n14\nFor him who daily reads\u00a04 these 108\u00a05 names of Durg\u0101\n There is nothing impossible in the three worlds.\n He obtains wealth, crops, sons, wife, horses, and elephants;\n He accomplishes the caturvarga,\u00a06\n And gains lasting liberation.\n15\nHaving worshipped the Dev\u012b Kum\u0101r\u012b,\u00a07\n And meditated upon Sure\u015bvar\u012b,\u00a08\n The devotee should worship,\u00a09\n And then read with devotion the 108 names of Durg\u0101.\n O Dev\u012b! such an one gains the fruition\u00a010 which Devas have;\nKings become his servants,\n And he obtains a kingdom and all prosperity.\n16\nHe who, versed in the \u015b\u0101stric injunctions.\n In accordance therewith, writes this mantra\n With saffron mixed with cows\u2019 pigment,\u00a01 red lac,\u00a02 camphor, and the three sweets,\u00a03\n And then wears it, becomes himself Pur\u0101ri.\u00a04\n17\nWhoever writes and then reads this hymn \n On a Tuesday in Am\u0101v\u0101sya,\u00a05\n At night, when the moon is in \u015aatabhi\u1e63\u0101,\u00a06\n Attains all wealth and prosperity.\n81:1 Manifestation of the \u015aakti of \u015aiva in warrior form as the Destructress of demonic beings, enemies to Devas and men. According to one account, She is so called as having slain the Asura Durg\u0101, son of Ruru (Skanda Pur\u0101\u1e47a). Another account of the origin of Durg\u0101 is given in Cand\u012b (M\u0101rkandeyapur\u0101\u1e47a), where the combined tejas, like a mountain of all the Devas, manifested as the Dev\u012b Durg\u0101 for the destruction of the Asura Mahi\u1e63a.\n81:2 P. 573, Tantras\u0101ra from the Vi\u015bvas\u0101ra Tantra.\n81:3 The Lord \u015aiva.\n81:4 Sat\u012b.\n81:5 Sat\u012b, or faithful. The name of the daughter of Dak\u1e63a. Brahm\u0101 Pr. says: \"The faithful Spouse Sat\u012b became Um\u0101, who ever dwells with \u015aiva.\"\n82:1 S\u0101dhvi, or chaste. She is of unequalled virtue as being attached to none but Her Lord (see Lalit\u0101, verse 43, where Bh\u0101skarar\u0101ya cites the \u0100c\u0101rya (Saundaryalahari), which says: \"How many poets share the wife of Brahm\u0101? Cannot everyone by means of wealth become the Lord of \u015ar\u012b (Vi\u1e63\u1e47u)? But, O virtuous one, first among faithful women, your breasts are untouched save by Mah\u0101deva, not even by the paste of Kuravaka.\" (a kind of paste made of the leaves of the red amaranth used to redden the cheeks, breasts, palms, and soles of Hindu women). Dev\u012b Bh\u0101g. Pr. also says: \"Thou art praised as S\u0101dhvi on account of Thy unequalled fidelity to Thy Lord.\"\n82:2 Bhavapr\u012bta. Bhava is \u015aiva.\n82:3 Bhav\u0101ni.\n82:4 Ary\u0101, which literally means noble, but which here means, as the commentator N\u012blakantha says in reference to the hymn to Durg\u0101 in the Mah\u0101bh\u0101rata (see post) pr\u0101pyabrahmasvar\u016bpa, the own form of the accessible Brahman as distinguished from the Nirgu\u1e47a Brahman beyond thought and speech. The very nature of the Dev\u012b is manifestation, and She is near to us in the world.\n82:5 Bhavamochin\u012b--that is, from the sams\u0101ra or phenomenal world.\n82:6 Durg\u0101--that is, Sa ya durgatim harati.\n82:7 Jay\u0101.\n82:8 \u0100dy\u0101.\n82:9 Trinetr\u0101.\n82:10 \u015a\u016bladh\u0101rin\u012b. The \u015b\u016bla is a weapon of the Dev\u012b.\n83:1 Pin\u0101kadh\u0101rini--that is, Spouse of \u015aiva, who wields the Pin\u0101ka bow broken by Rama; hence he is called Pin\u0101kin.\n83:2 Citr\u0101.\n83:3 Candaghant\u0101, the first of the nine Durg\u0101s in the Durg\u0101 Kavaca.\n83:4 Mah\u0101tap\u0101h. For the Dev\u012b as Um\u0101 Apar\u1e47\u0101 did great austerities to gain \u015aiva as Her husband.\n83:6 Ibid.\n83:7 Ibid.\n83:8 Cittarup\u0101. Citta is mental substance.\n83:9 Cit\u0101, which in Tantra has a twofold meaning (sma`s\u0101nam dvividham Dev\u012b cit\u0101 yon\u012bm\u0101he\u015bvari) for, whereas on the first the body is burnt, so in the second is the fire which consumes passion (Niruttara Tantra, chap. i.).\n83:10 Citih = jn\u0101n\u0101.\n83:11 Sarvamantramay\u012b.\n83:12 Saty\u0101, that which persists through the threefold time--past, present, and future--of which the opposite is asaty\u0101. That which is real and not fictitious (yath\u0101rthasvar\u016bpa). The epithet Saty\u0101, which occurs thrice in this stotra, has also, besides \"real,\" three other meanings: (1) Eternal, (2) the best (uttam\u0101), and (3) sthiti\u015b\u012bla, whose nature it is to exist.\n84:1 Saty\u0101nandasvar\u016bpin\u012b.\n84:2 Anant\u0101.\n84:3 Bh\u0101vini. In the ordinary sense bh\u0101vini, as sentimental, emotional, is a term which, according to the Amarako\u015ba, is commonly applied to women, as are the terms pramad\u0101 (pleasing), k\u0101nt\u0101 and lalan\u0101 (beautiful), and nitambin\u012b (possessing beautiful nitamba or buttocks). But here the word refers to the bh\u0101vas, pa\u015bu, v\u012bra, and divya, which are each manifestations of Her.\n84:4 Bh\u0101vagamy\u0101.\n84:5 Bh\u0101vy\u0101.\n84:6 Sad\u0101gatih.\n84:7 \u015a\u0101mbhav\u012b, Spouse of \u015aiva (\u015aambhu).\n84:8 Devam\u0101t\u0101.\n84:9 Cint\u0101.\n84:10 Ratnapriy\u0101.\n84:11 Sarvavidy\u0101; and so also the Lalit\u0101, verse 137, speaks of Her as being all the \u015a\u0101stras (\u015b\u0101stramay\u012b). The Brahm\u0101 Pr. says that from Her breath came the Vedas; from the tip of Her throat the sixty-four sciences; from the rest of Her limbs all other Tantras; and from Her shoulders the science of love.\n84:12 Dak\u1e63akany\u0101. Dak\u1e63a was one of the Praj\u0101patis and father-in-law of \u015aiva, who was married to his daughter Sat\u012b, a manifestation of the Dev\u012b.\n85:1 Dak\u1e63ayajnavin\u0101\u015bin\u012b. Because on Her account \u015aiva, Her husband, destroyed the dak\u1e63ayajna.\n85:2 Apar\u1e47\u0101 (see Hymn entitled \"May the Dev\u012b Grant Me Pardon\", post).\n85:3 Anekavar\u1e47\u0101.\n85:4 P\u0101tal\u0101: a reddish-pink, the colour of the Bhairav\u012bmurti.\n85:5 P\u0101tal\u0101vati.\n85:6 Patt\u0101mbara par\u012bdh\u0101n\u0101.\n85:7 Kalamanj\u012braranjin\u012b.\n85:8 Amiyavikram\u0101.\n85:9 Kr\u016br\u0101. Literally, \"cruel\"--that is, to the demonic beings which She destroyed, though even not truly so, for as Cand\u012b says, She destroyed them not only for the happiness of the world, but for their own happiness, so that being slain by Her hand they might go to heaven.\n85:10 Sundar\u012b.\n85:11 Purasundar\u012b.\n85:12 Vanadurg\u0101: the Dev\u012b of the forests. The foresters, before entering the forests, offer p\u016bj\u0101 to Vanadurg\u0101 as protectress against their dangers and terrors.\n85:13 M\u0101tangi; that is, of the \u1e5a\u1e63i Matanga.\n86:1 Matangamunip\u016bjit\u0101.\n86:2 Br\u0101hm\u012b.\n86:3 Mahe\u015bvar\u012b (feminine of Mahe\u015bvara), an appellation of \u015aiva.\n86:4 Spouse of Indra, one of the eight M\u0101t\u1e5bk\u0101s.\n86:5 Spouse of K\u0101rtikeya or Skanda, the leader of the celestial hosts. The Dev\u012b is also Mother both of Kum\u0101ra and Ganan\u0101tha (Ga\u1e47e\u015ba), and is so called in the Lalit\u0101, verse 94 (Kum\u0101raganan\u0101th\u0101mb\u0101), where it is said that the Devat\u0101 of egoism (ahamk\u0101ra) is Kum\u0101ra. The Var\u0101ha Pr. says: \"Vi\u1e63\u1e47u is the Puru\u1e63a, or \u015aiva is so called, Avyakt\u0101 is Um\u0101 or Lak\u1e63m\u012b, the lotus-eyed. From the interaction of these two arises ahamk\u0101ra. This ahamk\u0101ra is the guha (skanda), the leader of the army.\"\n86:6 The vai\u1e63\u1e47av\u012b \u015bakti.\n86:7 See Hymn entitled \"May the Dev\u012b Grant Me Pardon\", post.\n86:8 \u015aakti of Var\u0101ha, the boar incarnation, one of the eight M\u0101trkas.\n86:9 Dev\u012b of wealth, prosperity, and beauty.\n86:10 Puru\u1e63\u0101kritih. Puru\u1e63a is man, male, or person; the primeval man; the spirit of the universe, manifesting as Brahm\u0101, Vi\u1e63\u1e47u, \u015aiva, etc.; the passive spectator of the acts of Prak\u1e5bti. But in their ground both are one. Therefore Dev\u012b is in such sense Puru\u1e63a also. So K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, to screen his action from R\u0101dhik\u0101, manifested as K\u0101l\u012b.\n86:11 Vimal\u0101.\n87:1 Utk\u0101r\u1e63in\u012b.\n87:2 Jn\u0101n\u0101, for the Dev\u012b is jn\u0101n\u0101, kriy\u0101, and ichchh\u0101 \u015bakt\u012b.\n87:3 Kriy\u0101.\n87:4 Saty\u0101 (see ante, p. 83, note 12).\n87:5 Buddhid\u0101. Buddhi (intellect), the function of which is determination (ni\u015bcayak\u0101sin\u012b), is part of the fourfold antahkara\u1e47a: constituted by Buddhi and Manas (aspects of mind), Ahamk\u0101ra (egoity) and cint\u0101 (contemplation).\n87:6 Bahula-bhum\u0101.\n87:7 Bahulaprem\u0101.\n87:8 Sarvav\u0101hanav\u0101han\u0101. Literally whose vehicle (v\u0101hana) is the v\u0101hana of Sarva (\u015aiva), or a bull.\n87:9 Ni\u015bumbha\u015bumbhahanan\u012b. These were two Daityas, or enemies of the Devas, slain by the Dev\u012b (see Cand\u012b). The Daityas were sons of Diti and the Devas children of Aditi, hence they are called \u0100diteya.\n87:10 Mahi\u1e63\u0101suramardin\u012b (vide ibid.).\n87:11 Madhukaitabahantri. Two Daityas (ibid).\n87:12 Ca\u1e47\u1e0damu\u1e47\u1e0davin\u0101\u015bini: two generals of \u015aumbha and Ni\u015bumbha (ibid.)\n87:13 Sarv\u0101suravinar\u015ba.\n88:1 Sarvad\u0101navagh\u0101tin\u012b. The D\u0101navas were enemies of the Devas, children of Danu, a daughter of Dak\u1e63a and K\u0101\u015byapa.\n88:2 Sarva\u015b\u0101stramay\u012b.\n88:3 Saty\u0101.\n88:4 Sarv\u0101stradh\u0101rin\u012b. Astra is a weapon which is thrown--a projectile; and \u015bastra, in the next verse, is a weapon which is held.\n88:5 Aneka\u015bastrahast\u0101 (see last note).\n88:6 Anek\u0101strasyadh\u0101rin\u012b.\n88:7 Kum\u0101r\u012b.\n88:8 Kany\u0101.\n88:9 A girl up to fifteen years of age is so called (Kai\u1e63oram \u0101pancada\u015b\u0101t). It is said that up to sixteen years one is known as b\u0101l\u0101. At thirty one is Taru\u1e47\u012b, at fifty-five praudh\u0101, and above that vriddh\u0101. As the verse runs:\n88:10 Yuvat\u012b.\n88:11 Yati: one who controls the passions is an ascetic. The Dev\u012b practised great austerities to gain \u015aiva as Her husband.\n88:12 That is, below fifty-five years old, an adult woman who is no longer bashful or timid in the presence of her lord.\n89:1 Over fifty-five years old.\n89:2 Vriddham\u0101t\u0101.\n89:3 Balaprad\u0101. The litany in the Tantras\u0101ra here ends at the 87th name, short of the prescribed number of names.\n89:4 Here commences the phala portion.\n89:5 Sic; vide ante. Wherever 100 or 1,000 is mentioned (the former in the title of the present hymn) 108 or 1,008 is to be understood, for zero is an inauspicious number.\n89:6 Dharma, artha, k\u0101ma, and mok\u1e63a--piety, wealth, desire, and liberation--(see Introduction to Tantra \u015a\u0101stra).\n89:7 See \"Hymn to Annapur\u1e47\u0101\" post.\n89:8 Mistress of Suras (Devas).\n89:9 i.e., make p\u016bja.\n89:10 Siddhi (see Introduction to Tantra \u015a\u0101stra).\n90:1 Gorocan\u0101.\n90:2 Alakta.\n90:3 Madhutraya--that is, ghee, honey, and sugar.\n90:4 \u015aiva.\n90:5 The fifteenth day of the dark half of the lunar month; a very dark day on which \u015aav\u0101sana and similar rites are also accomplished.\n90:6 There are twenty-seven lunar mansions, of which \u015aatabhi\u1e63\u0101 is the twenty-fourth, containing a hundred stars.","title":"Hymns to the Goddess: From Tantra: Durg\u0101 (Durg\u0101\u015batan\u0101ma Stotra) from the Vi\u015bvas\u0101ra Tantra","type":"page"}