A Microcosm's Prayer(Slokha) -41 Poem by Indira Renganathan

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)

121 Thee who's strong, hale and healthy, whose
Salubrious persona is
Healingly healthful to the whole
So art thee aptly called Pushta

Ancient ere all ancient
The first Primeval, thou'rt so called
Purathana.Thee who's worshipped
For thy supreme mercy art apt

To be defined as the Mother
Who's benevolent, who gives boons
Heals woes and wounds so to worship
So'rt thee aptly known as Poojya

Health and wealth in sustenance and
Exuberance thee who bestows
Art so aptly called Pushkara
Who has eyes like lotus petals

Thou'rt so called Pushkarekshana
Thee who lights all luminaries
Lights all our lives and enlightens
The lamp in the soul, art so called

Paramjyothi.Thee who is the
Sole supreme abode for the Whole
Where all surrenders unto thee
Art so known as Paramdhama

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



122 Ah, the atom of a particle
Thee the sole Supreme who's that speck
The power and form of that speck
Thou art so called Paramanu

Who's the bestest of all the best
Supreme most of all supreme ones
Thou art so called Parath para
Who, holding a noose in Her hand

Shows Her strength bonding with Her makes
Thou art so called Pasa Hastha
Who shows Her strength detaching too
The bonding of all Her makes, so's

Pasa Hanthri.Enemy's spells..
Thee make them powerless and off
Thou'rt so greatly known by the name
Para manthra Vibhedini

Thee who can have a form, so art
Moortha.Who can be formless too
So'rt thee Amoortha.Our prayers
With few fugacious oblations

Thee who's happy even with such
Perishable offerings, so'rt
Thee known as Anithya thriptha.
Such is thy love as great as thee

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


123 In the pristine mind of sages
Thou'art a swan swimming in that lake
So'rt thee aptly known by the name
Muni manasa hamsika

Who likes and sticks to Truth alone
So's Satya vritha.Thee the Truth
And its form, so'rt Sathya roopa
Who's within all lives and souls, so's

Sarvantharyamini.Thee who's
The first and eternal Being
Also the spouse of great Shiva
So'rt thee known by the name Sathee

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
Naamaas801-820

* 801 * Pushta - She who is healthy
* 802 * Purathana - She who is ancient
* 803 * Poojya - She who is fit to be worshipped
* 804 * Pushkara - She who gives exuberance
* 805 * Pushkarekshana - She who has lotus like eyes
* 806 * Paramjyothi - She who is the ultimate light
* 807 * Param dhama - She who is the ultimate resting place
* 808 * Paramanu - She who is the ultimate atom
* 809 * Parath para - She who is better than the best
* 810 * Pasa Hastha - She who has rope in her hand
* 811 * Pasa Hanthri - She who cuts off attachment
* 812 * Para manthra Vibhedini - She who destroys the effect of spells cast
* 813 * Moortha - She who has a form
* 814 * Amoortha - She who does not have a form
* 815 * Anithya thriptha - She who gets happy with prayers using temporary things
* 816 * Muni manasa hamsika - She who is the swan in the mind (lake like) of sages
* 817 * Satya vritha - She who has resolved to speak only truth
* 818 * Sathya roopa - She who is the real form
* 819 * Sarvantharyamini - She who is within everything
* 820 * Sathee - She who is Sathee the daughter of Daksha