A Microcosm's Prayer(Slokha) -30 Poem by Indira Renganathan

A Microcosm's Prayer(Slokha) -30
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Sloka, is the most common Sanskrit meter and is a descendant of the older Vedic gayatri
The sloka, meaning 'song', although metric, is not considered poetic.
It functions more as the equivalent to Western prose with lines and meter and
is often used in narratives or epics.

The defining features of the sloka are:
stanzaic, written in any number of couplets made up of 2 hemistiches.
The hemistiches can be broken into 4 lines or padas creating quatrains,4 lines or padas
syllabic, either 2 lines of 16 syllables each or 4 hemistiches of 8 syllables each.
metric, alternate hemistiches of trochaic and iambic patterns.

The following verses are my own work, a prayer, based on the great slokha 'Lalitha Sahasranamam'
where the meaningful thousand names of Adi Para Sakthi(primordial cosmic Energy)
are narrated.These verses are not literal or exact translation of the slokha.But I referred to
the translation of the great slokha by Mr.P. R. Ramachander

(Please read the previous parts of this series before reading this)


88 Compassion and mercy..thyself
So art thee called Dhaya moorthi
Thou'rt the ruler of all rulers
Empress of all the empires, so'rt

Maha samrajya shalini
The doctrine of the supreme soul
Thou art so called Atma vidhya
Supreme doctrine of all doctrines

So art thee called Maha Vidhya
Who's all the divine mantras and
Mantra of mantras Srividya
So art thee known as Srividya

Who is worshipped by Manmatha
Thou'rt so called Kama Sevitha
Thee the sixteen lettered mantra
Art so rightly known by the name

Sri Shodasakshari vidhya
Thee the mantra Panchadasi
Its three parts where thee dwell so'rt known
Aptly by the name Trikoota

Thou'rt on par with Kameswara
Thyself art that Kameswara
Throned on Kamakoti peeta
Thou'rt so called Kama Kotika

Namaste Mother namaste
Divine Mother, unto thy feet
This tiny droplet surrenders
Rise my size within me, I watch


89 Kataksha kimkari bhootha
kamala koti sevitha
Crores of Lakshmis attend on thee
Lured by thy smiling pretty glance

So art thee known by that great name
Throned on the Bindu in the head
Thou art so called Sira sthitha
As such the moon and its bright sheen

In the bhaktas' divine vision
In the Sahasrara lotus
Thee shine like the dulcet full moon
So art thee called Chandra nibha

Thee who dwells in the forehead, so'rt
Bhalastha.Who is mind-boggling
Like the heavenly rainbow does
So'rt thee Indra Dhanu Prabha

Thee who's seated in the heart so'rt
Hridayastha.Like the bright sun
Who's effulgent in the heart, so's
Ravi prakhya.Sweet our Mother,

In the Mooladhara thou art
A lantern in a triangle
Thee who illumes there from, so'rt called
Tri konanthara deepika

Namaste Mother namaste
Divine Mother, unto thy feet
This tiny droplet surrenders
Rise my size within me, I watch


90 Child of Daksha prajapati
So art thee called Dakshayani
Thee the Power of all powers
Who kills all evils and demons

So art well called Dhaithya hanthri
Demonic Daksha thy father..
Thee who destroyed his vanity
And his yagna so art thee called

Daksha yagna vinasini
So art thy characteristics
So art thy forms of all forces
So'rt thee the wonder of wonders

Oh thee, divine our sweet Mother
Thou art beautiful the bestest
Thou art our brave queen the bestest
Thou art our Wisdom the bestest

Thou art our Strength sole the bestest
The Support for mind the bestest
The Support for life the bestest
Thou art all Force the mightiest

So to thee Mother, namaste
The Power of all, namaste
The causer of all, namaste
Creatrix of all, namaste

Namaste Mother namaste
Divine Mother, unto thy feet
This tiny droplet surrenders
Rise my size within me, I watch...

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Note: Translation by Mr.P.R Ramachander
Naamaas581-600

* 581 * Dhaya moorthi - She who is personification of mercy
* 582 * Maha samrajya shalini - She who is the chef of all the worlds
* 583 * Atma vidhya - She who is the science of soul
* 584 * Maha Vidhya - She who is the great knowledge
* 585 * Srividhya - She who is the knowledge of Goddess
* 586 * Kama sevitha - 'She who is worshipped by Kama, the God of love'
* 587 * Sri Shodasakshari vidhya - She who is the sixteen lettered knowledge
* 588 * Trikoota - She who is divided in to three parts
* 589 * Kama Kotika - She who sits on Kama Koti peetha
* 590 * Kataksha kimkari bhootha kamala koti sevitha - She who is attended by crores of Lakshmis
who yearn for her simple glance
* 591 * Shira sthitha - She who is in the head
* 592 * Chandra nibha - She who is like the full moon
* 593 * Bhalastha - She who is in the forehead
* 594 * Indra Dhanu Prabha - She who is like the rain bow
* 595 * Hridayastha - She who is in the heart
* 596 * Ravi pragya - She who has luster like Sun God
* 597 * Tri konanthara deepika - She who is like a light in a triangle
* 598 * Dakshayani - She who is the daughter of Daksha
* 599 * Dhaithya hanthri - She who kills asuras
* 600 * Daksha yagna vinasini - She who destroyed the sacrifice of Rudra