{"collection":"tantra","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tantra/htg/htg35.htm","path":"tantra/htg/htg35.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tantra/htg/htg35.htm","text":"Hymns to the Goddess, by John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon), [1913]\n1\nO MOTHER ANNAP\u016aR\u1e46\u0100!\u00a01\n \u012a\u015bvari,\u00a02 who ever bestoweth happiness,\n Granting gifts and dispelling fear.\n O mine of gems of beauty,\n Who washeth away all sin,\n Who giveth purity to Thy devotees, \n Who purifieth the mountain range,\u00a03\n Which is undestroyed even at the time of dissolution,\u00a04\n Presiding Deity of K\u0101\u015b\u012b,\u00a05\n Mahe\u015bvar\u012b\u00a06 in every truth,\n O vessel of mercy! grant me aid.\n2\nO Thou who hast clothed Thyself in cloth of gold,\nDecked with ornaments made of many and varied gems,\n Whose breasts rounded like a water jar,\n Are resplendent with their necklace of pearls,\n Whose beauty is enhanced by the fragrance of the Kashmir aloe.\n O Dev\u012b! who presidest over the city of K\u0101\u015b\u012b,\u00a01\n O Mother Annap\u016br\u1e47\u0101 I\u015bvar\u012b,\u00a02\n O vessel of mercy, grant me aid!\n3\nO giver of the bliss of Yoga,\u00a03\n Destructress of enemies,\u00a04\n Inspirer of devotion to dharma and artha,\u00a05\n Who art lustrous as the light waves of sun, moon, and fire,\n Protectress of the three worlds\u00a06\n Giver of all dominion\u00a07 and all desires,\n Presiding Dev\u012b over the city of K\u0101\u015b\u012b,\n O vessel of mercy, grant me aid!\n4\nThou who maketh Thy dwelling in the cave of Mount Kail\u0101sa,\u00a01\n Who art Gaur\u012b,\u00a02 Um\u0101,\u00a03 and \u015aankar\u012b,\u00a04 Kaum\u0101r\u012b,\u00a05\n Who giveth us power to understand the meaning of Nigama,\u00a06\nThou art the letters of the b\u012bja\u00a01 Om\u00a02,\n Opener of the panels of the door of liberation,\u00a03\n Presiding Dev\u012b over the City of K\u0101\u015b\u012b,\n O vessel of mercy, grant me aid!\n5\nThou supporteth all beings visible and invisible,\n Whose belly is the vessel which contains the universe.\u00a04\n Thou discloseth the subject of the drama of Thy own play,\n And art the fount of the light of wisdom,\n Pleasing the mind of the Lord of the universe,\n Presiding Dev\u012b over the City of K\u0101\u015b\u012b,\n O vessel of mercy, grant me aid!\n6\n\u012a\u015bvar\u012b of all men on earth,\n The waves of Thy blue-black hair look (beautiful) like plaits.\n \u012a\u015bvar\u012b who ever giveth food,\n Bestower of happiness to all, who advanceth all people,\n7\nThou givest all instruction onwards from the time of initiation,\u00a01\n And art the cause of the threefold manifestation of \u015aambhu.\u00a02\n Scented with the Kashmir aloe, Thou art the \u012a\u015bvar\u012b of the three regions.\u00a03\n Thou art triple waved,\u00a04\n And the night of dissolution.\n Thou art the cause of all lasting things,\n And fulfiller of the desires of those who desire.\n It is Thou who maketh the greatness of peoples.\n Presiding Dev\u012b over the City of K\u0101\u015b\u012b,\n O vessel of mercy, grant me aid!\n8\nThou, Dev\u012b, art adorned with all various kinds of gems,\n Daughter of Dak\u1e63a,\u00a05\nBeautiful, pleasing the world\n With the sweet milk of Thy left breast.\u00a01\n Thou art Mahe\u015bvar\u012b, for Thou givest prosperity to all,\n For Thou givest welfare,\n And fulfillest the desires of your devotees.\n Presiding Dev\u012b over the City of Benares,\n O vessel of mercy, grant me aid!\n9\nThou art She who shinest with the brilliance of millions of suns, moons, and fires.\n Whose earrings are brilliant as the sun, moon, and fire,\n Who art the cause of the colour of both sun and moon,\n Who holdeth a rosary,\u00a02 a book,\u00a03 a noose, and a goad.\u00a04\n Presiding Dev\u012b over the City of Benares,\n O vessel of mercy, grant me aid!\n10\nProtectress of K\u1e63atriyas,\u00a05\n Great dispeller of all fear,\n Mother, who art an ocean of mercy,\n In very truth the ever auspicious giver of salvation,\n The cause of the beauty of Vi\u015bve\u015bvara,\u00a06\nIt was Thou who made Dak\u1e63a to weep.\u00a01\n Remover of all ills,\n Presiding Dev\u012b over the City of Benares,\n O vessel of mercy, grant me aid!\n11\nO Annap\u016br\u1e47\u0101! who art ever full (of bounty),\n Who art dear to the life of \u015aankara,\u00a02\n O P\u0101rvat\u012b, give me aid!\n12\nMy mother is Dev\u012b P\u0101rvati,\n My father is Deva Mahe\u015bvara,\u00a03\n My friends and relatives are those who are devoted to \u015aiva,\n And the three regions\u00a04 are my fatherland.\n217:1 The name of the Dev\u012b, the \"bountiful Lady\" who gives food and presides over K\u0101\u015b\u012b, the Holy City of Benares.\n217:2 Feminine of \u012a\u015bvara or Lord.\n217:3 The Himalaya purified by the presence of the Dev\u012b, who there incarnated as P\u0101rvat\u012b, daughter of Himavat, the Mountain-King.\n217:4 Pralaya, the destruction of the world.\n217:5 Benares (see note 1.)\n217:6 Great \u012a\u015bvar\u012b (see note 2).\n218:1 Benares.\n218:2 Feminine of \u012a\u015bvara or Lord.\n218:3 Union of the human (jiv\u0101tm\u0101) with the supreme (param\u0101tm\u0101) soul effected through the practice of Yoga.\n218:4 That is, sin.\n218:5 Two of the fourfold aims (Caturvarga) of sentient being--viz., dharma (religion, duty, etc.), artha (wealth, wherewith life is sustained and religious sacrifices are effected), K\u0101ma (desire which prompts great achievements and fulfilment), and mok\u1e63a or liberation.\n218:6 That is, Bhuh, Bhuvah, Svah, the terrestrial atmospheric and the heavenly spheres.\n218:7 Ai\u015bvarya (lordship).\n219:1 The sacred mount and paradise of \u015aiva; esoterically the Sahasr\u0101ra whereto as Ku\u1e47\u1e0dalin\u012b She repairs.\n219:2 The daughter of Guru, the King of mountains (see p. 187, note 4). Gaur\u012b also means \"fair\".\n219:3 A name of the Dev\u012b. When of the age of sixteen she practised great austerities that She might be the Spouse of \u015aiva, upon which Her mother, endeavouring to persuade Her, said, U (\"Oh\"), M\u0101 (\"not\"). As it is said by K\u0101lid\u0101sa in the first Canto of the Kum\u0101rasambhavam; \"Umeti m\u0101tr\u0101 tapaso ni\u1e63iddh\u0101 pasch\u0101 dum\u0101khy\u0101ng sumukhijag\u0101ma.\" (\"By the words U, M\u0101, She was thus forbidden by Her mother to practise austerity, thereafter the pure Um\u0101 obtained Her name.\") Um\u0101 is Kum\u0101r\u012b, who has renounced all attachment, and is devoted to Her Lord. A s\u016btra runs, \"Icch\u0101\u015baktih Um\u0101 kum\u0101r\u012b\" (The energy of will is Um\u0101 the unmarried). The Commentary on this s\u016btra, cited by Bh\u0101skarar\u0101ya, says: \"The eternal state is his whose mind has ascended the degrees of yoga called vismaya, and who realizes the supreme Bhairavata (an aspect of \u015aiva). That Yogi obtains at length the Icch\u0101\u015bakti called the Supreme Queen (Par\u0101bhatt\u0101rika) known also as Kum\u0101r\u012b.\"\n219:4 Name of the Dev\u012b as Spouse of \u015aankara, the benefactor.\n219:5 Name of the Dev\u012b as one of the a\u1e63tan\u0101yik\u0101 and Spouse of Deva K\u0101rtikeya.\n219:6 This term, applied to the Veda generally, means particularly the Tantra in the form in which the Dev\u012b is guru and \u015aiva, \u015bi\u1e63ya. As it is said:\n[paragraph continues] In the Lalit\u0101 the Dev\u012b is addressed as nij\u0101jnar\u016bp\u0101 nigam\u0101 (the nigama are the expressions of Thy commands).\n220:1 The T\u0101ntrik (\"seed\") mantras, such as Hr\u012bm, H\u016bm, Kl\u012bm, etc. Mantras are classified according to the syllables they contain.\n220:2 The Mah\u0101mantra Om, composed of A + u + m, coalesced by sandhi into Om. The three var\u1e47as signify the three members of the Trimurti, Brahm\u0101, Vi\u1e63\u1e47u, and \u015aiva, who, as the Rudray\u0101mala says, are born of the Pra\u1e47ava (Om), and though in appearance three, are yet one (ekam\u016brtistrayo dev\u0101h). From the Pra\u1e47ava all Devas, Vedas, sun, moon, and all being comes by the power of Dev\u012b, the supreme \u015aakti.\n220:3 Mok\u1e63\u0101, or unity with the supreme, and therefore liberation from rebirth in the phenomenal world.\n220:4 Brahm\u0101\u1e47\u1e0dabh\u0101\u1e47\u1e0dodari. The Brahim\u0101\u1e47\u1e0da (universe) is the \"mundane egg\" of Brahm\u0101.\n221:1 D\u012bk\u1e63\u0101, through which each Hindu passes, by reception of his mantra. It is said sometimes that initiation is the third birth, the first being that from the mother, the second is upanayana (investiture with sacred thread), and the third is initiation. The Tantras speak of thirty-two D\u012bk\u1e63\u0101s, from Sudhavidy\u0101 to Anuttara.\n221:2 That is, as creator, maintainer, and destroyer.\n221:3 Bhuh, Bhuvah, Svah (see p. 151, note 7)\n221:4 For She flows in the form of the three sacred rivers: Gang\u0101, Yamun\u0101, and Sarasvat\u012b.\n221:5 The father of Sat\u012b, a manifestation of Dev\u012b, who, dying at the Dak\u1e63ayajna reappeared as P\u0101rvat\u012b.\n222:1 Because Gane\u015ba and K\u0101rtikeya, Her children, suck Her right breast.\n222:2 M\u0101l\u0101.\n222:3 Pustaka, which is also known as the Vidy\u0101mudr\u0101.\n222:5 The warrior caste.\n222:6 Lord of the universe.\n223:1 When his yajna was destroyed by Her husband \u015aiva. There are two Dak\u1e63as--Praj\u0101pati, and a human king, an incarnation of the former. Though \u015aiva destroyed the sacrifice, Dev\u012b was the instrument. The Lalit\u0101, verse 120, addresses the Dev\u012b both as D\u0101k\u1e63\u0101yan\u012b (daughter of Dak\u1e63a) and Dak\u1e63ayajna vin\u0101sin\u012b (destroyer of the sacrifice of Dak\u1e63a).\n223:2 \u015aiva.\n223:3 Ibid.","title":"Hymns to the Goddess: From \u015aankar\u0101c\u0101rya: Annap\u016br\u1e47\u0101 (Annap...","type":"page"}