{"collection":"tantra","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tantra/htg/htg19.htm","path":"tantra/htg/htg19.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tantra/htg/htg19.htm","text":"Hymns to the Goddess, by John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon), [1913]\n1\nDEV\u012a, Thou who removeth the pain of Thy suppliants,\u00a03\n Be gracious, Be gracious, O Mother of the world!\n Be gracious, O Queen of the universe!\n Protect the universe.\n Thou art, O Dev\u012b! the I\u015bvar\u012b of all moving and unmoving things.\u00a04\n2\nThou art the only support of the world,\n Because Thou wert in the form of earth.\n By Thee who existed in the form of water\n Is the whole universe pervaded.\n Thou art She whose powers are unsurpassed.\n3\nThou art the Vai\u1e63\u1e47av\u012b \u015aakti 5 of eternal power;\nThou art the seed of the universe,\n And the supreme M\u0101y\u0101.\n All this universe has been bewitched by Thee.\n Thou, when pleased, art the cause of salvation to men.\n4\nAll sciences are parts of Thee,\n As also all women without exception\u00a01 throughout the world.\u00a02\n By Thee alone, O Mother! is the universe filled.\n How can we praise Thee?\n Art thou not beyond all Praise of highest speech?\n5\nWhen,\u00a03 O Dev\u012b!\u00a04 being in the form of the universe,\n And bestowing heaven\u00a05 and liberation,\u00a06\n Thou art worshipped,\n What words, howsoever sublime, suffice for Thy praise?\n6\nO Thou who existeth in the form of buddhi\u00a01\n In the heart of all beings,\n Who art Giver of heaven and liberation\n O Dev\u012b N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47i!\u00a02 salutation to Thee.\n7\nIn the form of moments, minutes, and other fractions of time,\n Thou art the cause of (worldly) change.\n At the time of the dissolution of the universe\n Thou art all-powerful.\u00a03\n N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47\u012b all reverence to Thee.\n8\nO Auspicious One! auspicious with all auspiciousness,\n Accomplisher of all successful things,\n Giver of refuge, Three-eyed one;\u00a04\n O Gaur\u012b!\u00a05 O N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47i! all reverence to Thee.\n9\nO Eternal One! who art the energy\u00a06\n Of creation, maintenance, and destruction;\nWho art the abode of the qualities,\u00a01\n And are yet beyond them--\u00a02\n O N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47i! all reverence to Thee.\n10\nO Thou who ever savest those in poverty and pain,\n Who take shelter with Thee!\n O Remover of the pains of all!\n N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47i, all reverence to Thee.\n11\nRider in an aerial car yoked with swans,\u00a03\n Who assumed the form of Br\u0101hman\u012b,\u00a04\n Who sprinklest water in which ku\u015ba grass\u00a05 is steeped\u00a06--\n N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47\u012b, all reverence to Thee.\n12\nWho holdeth trident, moon, and serpent,\u00a07\n Riding on a great bull\u00a08\n In the form of Mahe\u015bvar\u012b\u00a09--\n N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47i, all reverence to Thee.\n13\nWho art attended by fowl and peacock.\u00a01\n O faultless One!\n Who holdeth a great \u015bakti-weapon,\u00a02\n And existeth in the form of Kaum\u0101r\u012b,\u00a03--\n N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47i, all reverence to Thee.\n14\nWho holdeth Thy great implements,\n Which are the conch, discus, mace, and bow;\n Who art in the form of Vai\u1e63\u1e47av\u012b,\u00a04\n Be gracious,\n N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47i, all reverence to Thee.\n15\nWho holdeth the formidable discus,\n And hast uplifted the earth with Thy tusks\u00a05--\n O auspicious One! in the form of a boar\u00a06--\n N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47i, all reverence to Thee.\n16\nO Thou who in the fierce man-lion form\u00a07\n Didst put forth effort to slay the Daityas,\nAnd who hast delivered the three worlds--\n N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47\u012b, all reverence to Thee.\n17\nWho weareth a diadem and beareth a great thunder-bolt,\n Who dazzles with Thy thousand eyes,\u00a01\n Destructress of the life of Vritra,\u00a02\n Who art Aindr\u012b,\u00a03\n N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47i, all reverence to Thee.\n18\nWho art in the form of \u015aivad\u016bt\u012b,\u00a04\n Destructress of the great host of the Daityas,\n Of terrible form and loud and terrible voice--\n N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47i, all reverence to Thee.\n19\nWhose visage is formidable with its teeth,\n Adorned with a garland of severed heads--\n O C\u0101mu\u1e47\u1e0d\u0101!\u00a05 is destructress of Mu\u1e47\u1e0da\u00a06--\n N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47\u012b, all reverence to Thee.\n20\nLak\u1e63m\u012b, modesty, great knowledge,\u00a01\n Faith (in \u015b\u0101stras), nourishment, svadh\u0101;\u00a02\n Truth, permanent and unchangeable;\n Great night of dissolution, great nescience\u00a03--\n N\u0101r\u0101ya\u1e47\u012b, all reverence to Thee.\n21\nUnderstanding,\u00a04 Sarasvat\u012b, the Best of all.\n All Powers,\u00a05 Spouse of Babhru,\u00a06 Dark One,\u00a07\n Primeval \u015aakti.\u00a08 Be gracious, O Lady!\n N\u0101r\u0101y\u0101\u1e47\u012b, all reverence to Thee.\n22\nWho art in the form of all things,\nController of all; who hast all power;\n From the cause of all fear protect us, O Dev\u012b!\n O Dev\u012b Durg\u0101! reverence to Thee.\n23\nBeautiful is Thy face adorned with three eyes.\n Guard us from all (formidable) beings.\n O K\u0101ty\u0101yani!\u00a01\n Reverence to Thee.\n24\nMay Thy trident most formidable with flame,\n Slayer of countless Asuras,\n Protect us from fear,\n O Bhadrak\u0101li!\u00a02\n Reverence to Thee.\n25\nMay Thy bell which destroys the power of Daityas,\n Filling the world with its sound,\n Guard us from sin,\n As a mother\u00a03 protects her children!\n26\nMay Thy sword glittering in Thy hands,\n Besmeared with the blood and fat of Asuras as with mire,\n Be for our welfare!\n O Ca\u1e47\u1e0dik\u0101; to Thee we bow.\n27\nThou, when gratified, dost destroy all forms of disease;\n But if displeased, Thou dost destroy all longed-for desires.\n Such as take shelter with Thee need fear no danger,\n Since they become verily a refuge to themselves.\u00a01\n28\nO Mother, who hast shown Thyself in many forms,\n Who else than Thee is able to achieve\n That destruction of the great Asuras,\n Enemies of righteousness,\u00a02\n Which Thou hast wrought to-day.\n29\nIn the sciences,\u00a03 in all scriptures,\u00a04 and in the great sayings\u00a05\n Which are the lamp of knowledge,\u00a06\n Who else is there but Thee\n Who makes this universe again and again\u00a07 revolve\nIn the pit 1 of delusion 2 steeped in darkness.\n30\nWhere there are R\u0101k\u1e63asas\u00a03 and greatly poisonous serpents;\n Where there are (armed) enemies;\n Where there are highway robbers;\n Where there is the forest and ocean\u00a04 fire,\n There abiding,\u00a05 Thou dost guard the universe.\n31\nQueen of the universe art Thou and its guardian;\n In the form of the universe Thou art its maintainer.\n By the Lords\u00a06 of the universe art Thou worshipped.\n They, its supporters, have great devotion to Thee.\u00a07\n32\nO Dev\u012b! be gracious;\n Ever protect us from the fear of enemies\n As Thou hast just now saved us by the slaughter of the Asuras.\nMake cease at once the sins of the whole world\n And the great dangers which come of all portents.\u00a01\n33\nO Dev\u012b! who takest away the afflictions of the universe.\n Be gracious to us who make obeisance to Thee.\n O Thou who art worthy of all praise,\n Grant boons to the dwellers in the three\u00a02 worlds.\u00a03\n106:1 Mother.\n106:2 When the great Lord of the Asuras was slain by the Dev\u012b, Indra and other Devas (Agni at their head), with shining faces, offered praise to K\u0101ty\u0101yan\u012b, because of the fulfilment of their desire.\n106:3 Literally, \"Those who come to take shelter with Her.\"\n106:4 That is, the organic and inorganic world.\n106:5 The energy of Vi\u1e63\u1e47u, the sustaining power of the Universe.\n107:1 Sakal\u0101. Nagoji Bhatta is not happy in his Commentary when he says that sakal\u0101 here means \"endowed with the sixty-four arts\" (kal\u0101), such as dancing, music, painting, literature, acting, etc., and who are devoted to their husbands, modest, etc. The Dev\u012b is not, according to this noble line, in these only but in all women, however ignorant of the \"arts\" or low born they may be.\nThe Devibh\u0101\u1e63yam of Panch\u0101nana Tarkaratna translates the verse as, \"All sciences, all things (bhed\u0101h), and all women are of Thee.\"\n107:3 The verse here changes from upendra vajr\u0101 to anustup metre.\n107:4 That is, She who is, as Nagoji says, of a shining nature (dyotana`s\u012bl\u0101).\n107:5 Svarga.\n107:6 Mukti.\n108:1 That is, nischay\u0101tmakam jn\u0101nam.\n108:2 For she is the support of all beings; fem. of N\u0101r\u0101yana, a name of Vi\u1e63\u1e47u.\n108:3 For She is in the form of time.\n108:4 As is Her Spouse \u015aiva with his third eye of wisdom.\n108:5 Either as Nagoji says \"white Dev\u012b,\" or the Dev\u012b of that name, who issued from the body of Mah\u0101dev\u012b.\n108:6 The commentator says \"that She is the possessor of it\" (\u015bakti); but there is in reality no difference between \u015bakti and the possessor of \u015bakti, though human understanding and speech may make such difference.\n109:1 The gu\u1e47as--the three sattva, rajas, and tamas, and their derivatives, the Tattwas.\n109:2 Nagoji says that gun\u0101\u015braye gunamaye = gun\u0101\u015braye agunamaye. Though the gunas inhere in Her, She is not as is the j\u012bva, affected by them.\n109:3 See next note.\n109:4 \u015aakti, or energy of Brahm\u0101 whose vehicle (v\u0101hana) is a swan (hamsa), or flamingo, as it is variously rendered.\n109:5 Grass used in pit\u1e5b k\u1e5by\u0101 and agni k\u1e5by\u0101.\n109:6 As Brahm\u0101 does with the holy water (\u015b\u0101ntijalam) from his pot called kama\u1e47\u1e0dalu.\n109:7 Associated with \u015aiva.\n109:8 The v\u0101hana of \u015aiva.\n109:9 \u015aakti, or energy of Mahe\u015bvara or \u015aiva.\n110:1 Both the cock and peacock are said in the Mah\u0101bh\u0101rata to be the v\u0101hana of K\u0101rtikeya. Gopal Chakravarti renders it, however, as \"the best of peacocks.\"\n110:2 A kind of missile, dart spear, lance, or pike.\n110:3 The \u015aakti of Kum\u0101ra, or K\u0101rtikeya, son of \u015aiva and P\u0101rvat\u012b and Commander of the celestial hosts.\n110:4 The \u015aakti of Vi\u1e63\u1e47u, who holds the conch, discus (cakra), etc.\n110:5 See next note.\n110:6 Vi\u1e63\u1e47u, in His boar-incarnation, uplifted on His tusks the world which had been submerged in the waters.\n110:7 As \u015aakti of Vi\u1e63\u1e47u in the narasimha incarnation, in which He slew the Daitya Hiranyaka\u015bipu.\n111:1 The Dev\u012b is here invoked as Aindri, the \u015bakti of Indra, who is crowned, and whose weapon, like that of Jupiter, is the thunderbolt and who has a thousand eyes.\n111:2 An Asura slain by Indra.\n111:3 See note 1, ante.\n111:4 The Dev\u012b is known as \u015aivad\u016bt\u012b, because \u015aiva was engaged by Her as messenger to \u015aumbha and Ni\u015bumbha.\nCa\u1e47\u1e0d\u012b, eighth M\u0101h\u0101tmya.\n111:5 Dev\u012b is so called because She slew the Asuras Canda and Mu\u1e47\u1e0da (see verse 25, chap. vii. Cand\u012b).\n111:6 Mu\u1e47\u1e0damathane; not as one translation of the Ca\u1e47\u1e0d\u012b has it, \"who grindest shaven heads.\"\n112:1 That is, as Nagoji says, the knowledge pertaining to the \u0100tman (adhy\u0101tmavidy\u0101) contained in the Upani\u1e63ads; not \"wide knowledge,\" as last mentioned translator renders it.\n112:2 Mantra of Pit\u1e5bs.\n112:3 For Dev\u012b is both vidy\u0101 (knowledge) and avidy\u0101 (nescience), or Prak\u1e5bti.\n112:4 Medh\u0101, which Nagoji says = dh\u0101ran\u0101vati buddhi, or firm, steady, concentrated buddhi.\n112:5 Bh\u016bti, which ordinarily means wealth = here, according to Gopal Chakravarti ai\u015bvaryar\u016bpin\u012b--that is, the eighth siddhi; or, according to Nagoji, it is sattvapradh\u0101na (\"greatly excelling in sattva gu\u1e47a\").\n112:6 A name of \u015aiva, Vi\u1e63\u1e47u, or Fire. According to Nagoji the rajogu\u1e47a \u015bakti is here indicated.\n112:7 T\u0101mas\u012b--that is, tamogunayukt\u0101.\n112:8 Niyate, which ordinarily means fate (adris\u1e6da); but here denotes, according to Nagoji, the M\u016bla\u015bakti, the root or primeval \u015aakti. It does not mean, an stated in the last-mentioned translation, \"O self-controlled Queen!\". In the case of the Dev\u012b there is no self to be controlled. She controls others, not Herself.\n113:1 According to Gopal, the Dev\u012b is so called because She was born in the hermitage of the Muni K\u0101ty\u0101yana, but the Vedantists say that K\u0101tya is he who is devoted to the Brahman (brahmani\u1e63\u1e6da), and She who is attained by them is K\u0101ty\u0101yan\u012b.\n113:2 Auspicious K\u0101l\u012b.\n113:3 Anah.\n114:1 As Gopal says, even Rajahs, not to mention others, become the slaves of such an one.\n114:2 Dharma.\n114:3 There are fourteen kinds of vidy\u0101--viz., four Veda, six Anga, Mim\u0101msa, Ny\u0101ya, Dharma\u015b\u0101stra, Pur\u0101\u1e47\u0101. Gopal says vidy\u0101 and upavidy\u0101, such as Indraj\u0101la, G\u0101rudakady\u0101h, Dhanurvidy\u0101, etc.\n114:4 \u015a\u0101stra--that is, tarka (logic), n\u012bti. etc.\n114:5 Literally; the \"first sayings\"--that is Veda or the Karmak\u0101\u1e47\u1e0da.\n114:6 Viveka = jn\u0101na (Gopal).\n114:7 At\u012bva.\n115:1 The reference is to the sams\u0101ra. It is a \"pit,\" for men fall into it; and it is \"dark,\" for it obstructs knowledge.\n115:2 Mamatvam, which Gopal defines as asvak\u012bye svakiyatv\u0101bhim\u016bnah--the sense of ownness in respect of a thing not one's own--e.g., to take the body to be the self; to think I am white, I am tall, etc\n115:3 Demonic beings.\n115:4 That is, the submarine fire.\n115:5 Because She pervades all things.\n115:6 Indra, Brahm\u0101, etc.\n115:7 Gop\u0101la Chakravarti renders it: \"Those who are devoted to Thee are themselves worshipped--even by Indra, Brahm\u0101, etc., the Lords of the Universe--therefore Thou art the supporter of the universe.\"\n116:1 Unusual phenomena, such as earthquakes, comets, hurricanes, etc.\n116:2 Bhuh, bhuvah, svah (see Introduction to Tantra \u015a\u0101stra).\n116:3 Then Dev\u012b said: \"Now I bestow a boon, O Devas\" (Ca\u1e47\u1e0d\u012b).","title":"Hymns to the Goddess: From Pur\u0101\u1e47a: Ambik\u0101 (Eleventh M\u0101h\u0101t...","type":"page"}