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KAMALAMBA NAVAVARANAM, DAY 6

    

kamalAmbikAyAH tava

     
rAgam: punnAgavarALi

muttusvAmi dIkshita viracita

tALam: rUpakam

 
      
pallavi
 

kamalAmbikAyAstava bhakto.ahaM shaN^karyAH shrIkaryAH saN^gItarasikAyAH shrI

 anupallavi

 sumasharekShukodaNDapAshAN^kushapANyAH
atimadhurataravANyAH sharvANyAH kalyANyAH
ramaNIyapunnAgavarALivijitaveNyAH shrI

 caraNam

 dashakalAtmakavahnisvarUpaprakAshAntardashAra sarvarakShAkaracakreshvaryAH tri-
dashAdinuta kacavargadvayamayasarvaj~nAdidashashaktisameta-
mAlinIcakreshvaryAH tridashaviMshadvarNa garbhiNIkuNDalinyAH dashamudrAsamArAdhitakauLinyAH
dasharathAdinutaguruguhajanakashivabodhinyAH dashakaraNav.rttimarIcinigarbhayoginyAH shrI
 

     

Word to word meaning:

   
kamalAmbikAyAH - (of) KamalAmbika
tava -

your

bhaktaH - devotee
ahaM - I (am)
shaN^karyAH - (of the one who) bestows auspiciousness
shrIkaryAH - (of the one who) bestows prosperity
saN^gItarasikAyAH - (of the one) who is an enjoyer of divine music
shrI - auspicious
       
sumasharekShukodaNDapAshAN^kushapANyAH -

(of the one) who holds in her hands the flower arrows, sugar cane, the noose and the goad

atimadhurataravANyAH - (of the one) whose speech is excessively sweet
sharvANyAH - (of the) wife of sharva (Siva)
kalyANyAH - (of) kalyANI the ever auspicious one
ramaNIyapunnAgavarALivijitaveNyAH -

whose braided hair conquers the lovely black bees swarming around the punnAga tree

       

dashakalAtmakavahnisvarUpaprakAshAntardashAra-sarvarakShAkaracakreshvaryAH

- whose essential nature is the light of the ten-fold fire, manifest in the sarvarakShAkara cakra, consisting of the inner ten triangles

tridashAdinuta kacavarga dvayamaya sarvaj~nAdi
dasha shakti sameta mAlinIcakreshvaryAH

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the Goddess, who is worshipped by the thirty deities in the cakra of mAlini, which has ten shaktis, sarvaj~nA etc, who are the ten letters of the alphabet that belong to the “ka” and “ca” groups

tridashaviMshadvarNa-garbhiNIkuNDalinyAH - who is the Kundalini encompassing 50 letters of the alphabet

dashamudrAsamArAdhitakauLinyAH

- who is the Goddess Kaulini propitiated by ten mudras

dasharathAdinutaguruguhajanakashivabodhinyAH

- (who is) worshipped by Dasharatha and others, and who reveals the identity of Siva, the father of Guruguha

dashakaraNav.rttimarIcinigarbhayoginyAH

- who is hidden in the manifestations which are the functions of the ten senses and the motor organs ( five karmendriyas, and five j~nAnendriyas)
    


Notes:

This song is set in ShaShThI vibhakti, the possessive or genitive case.

The basic sentence unit (anvaya) is ahaM kamalAmbikAyAH bhaktaH (I am the devotee of Goddess Kamalambika), and all adjectives ending in “yAH” are qualifications of the noun KamalAMbikAyAH.

The cakra for this AvaraNa, sarvarakShAkara cakra,  consists of the inner set of ten triangles (known as antardashAra). MAlinI cakra is a diagram where the Sanskrit alphabet is arranged in a concentric pattern in these ten triangles. The ten shaktis referred to here are: sarvaj~nA, sarvashaktipradA, sarvaishvaryapradAyinI, sarvaj~nAnamayI, sarvavyAdhivinAshinI, sarvAdhArasvarUpA, sarvapApaharA, sarvAnandamayI, sarvarakShAsvarUpiNI, and sarvepsitaphalapradA. These shaktis are called the nigarbha yogini-s. The ten mudrA-s are: sarvasaMkShobhiNI, sarvavidrAviNI, sarvAkarShiNI, sarvaveshAkarI, sarvAnmodinI, mahAN^kushA, khecarI, bIja, yoni and trikhaNDa.

The rAgamudra “punnAgavarALI” is beautifully brought out using double meaning (shleshaM).

      
   

Navavaranam lyrics - Sanskrit pdf   /   English pdf   /   Word document

    
    

Posted on October 12, 2002

   

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