Slokha, is the most common Sanskrit meter and is a descendant of the older Vedic gayatri
The slokha, 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 slokha 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 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 lireral or exact translation of the slokha.But I refered to
the translation of the great slokha by Mr.P. R. Ramachander
Please read the previous parts of this series before reading this
13 With missile Paasupatha’s fire
Thee, who burnt the demons to death
With missile Kameshwara’s fire
Thee burnt Bhanda, his Sunyaka
Praised by Brahma, Vishnu, Indra
Thee for thy valiant powers
For the sake of world’s creation
Thee who revived Manmatha’s life
Panchadasakshara mantra..
Its flair of Vagbhava Koota
Housed in thy face, so called
Thee who’s Panchadasakshari
Panchadasakshara mantra..
Next its Kamaraja koota
Housed in thee from neck to thy waist
So’s thee Panchadasakshari
Panchadasakshara mantra..
Its last flair of Sakti Koota
Housed in thee still adown thy waist
So’s thee Panchadasakshari
Thee who’s purport of that mantra
The syllables of that mantra..
Thee thyself whose form is of that
So’s thee Panchadasakshari
Namaste Mother namaste
Divine Mother, unto thy feet
This tiny droplet surrenders
Rise my size within me, I watch
14 Thou art beautiful bodily
Thou art powerful formless too
Thou art our sweet divine Mother
No fear so will invade our life
Thee who’s in our sense of seeing
Thee who’s in our sense of desire
Thee who’s in our sense of action
Thee who’s the One and the oneness
The seer, the seeing, the seen
Thee in these and thyself are these
Exulting in this kulamruth
Thyself the nectar of kula
Thee who guards that arcane kula
Thou art the virtuous Mother
Delighted in thy Truthfulness
Unto thy feet fall one and all
Shiva and Sakthi both in One
Kula and Akula in One
Thee who’s man and woman in One
Thee who’s so Kaulini by name
All from thee oh divine Mother
Be it human or animal
Or the elemets and beyond
Thee the causer, thee our Mother
Namaste Mother namaste
Divine Mother, unto thy feet
This tiny droplet surrenders
Rise my size within me, I watch
15 Thou art the chakras and kulas
Thou art the vortex of chakras
Thou art the deity of kulas
Thou art our Kulayogini
High beyond in Sahasrara
Shiva or Akula thou art
Shiva and Sakthi not in two
But two in One as Samaya
Thee who enjoys such worship too
Thee who dwells in Mooladhara
Thee who helps us break earthly ties
We to get merged in thy oneness
Ho ho, 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 Ramachandar
Naamaas81-100
* 81 * Maha pasupathasthragni nirdagdhasura sainika – She who destroyed the army of asuras
by the Maha pasupatha arrow.
* 82 * Kameshwarasthra nirdhagdha sabandasura sunyaka – She who destroyed Bandasura and his city
called sunyaka by the Kameshwara arrow.
* 83 * Brhmopendra mahendradhi deva samsthutha vaibhava – ‘She who is prayed
by Lord Brahma, Vishnu, indra and other devas’
* 84 * Hara nethragni sandhagdha kama sanjeevanoushadhi – She who brought back to life
the God of love Manmatha who was burnt to ashes by the fire from the eyes of Shiva
* 85 * Sri vagbhave koodaiga swaroopa mukha pankaja – She whose lotus face is Vagbhava Koota
* 86 * Kantatha kadi paryantha Madhya koodaiga swaroopini – She whose portion
from neck to hips is Madya koota
* 87 * Sakthi koodaiga thapanna Kadyatho bhaga dharini – She whose portion below hips is the
Shakthi koota
* 88 * Moola manthrathmikha – She who is the meaning of Moola manthra (root manthra) or
She who is the cause
* 89 * Moola kooda thraya kalebhara – She whose body is the three parts of the basic manthra
i.e. pancha dasakshari manthra
* 90 * Kulamruthaika rasika – ‘She who enjoys the ecstatic state of oneness
of one who sees, sight and what is seen or She who gets pleasure in drinking the nectar flowing
from the thousand petalled lotus below the brain.’
* 91 * Kula sanketha palini – She who protects the powerful truths from falling
into unsuitable people
* 92 * Kulangana – She who is a lady belonging to cultured family or She who is like Srividya
known only to one whom it belongs
* 93 * Kulanthastha – She who is fit to be worshipped any where
* 94 * Kaulini – She who is the unification of the principles of Shiva and Shakthi
* 95 * Kula yogini – She who is related to the family or She who is related to the ultimate knowledge
* 96 * Akula – She who is beyond kula or She who is beyond any knowledge
* 97 * Samayanthastha – She who is within the mental worship of Shiva and Shakthi
* 98 * Samayachara that para – She who likes Samayachara i.e. worship stepwise from mooladhara Chakra
* 99 * Moladharaika nilaya – She who exists in Mooladhara In Mooladhara which is in the
form of four petalled lotus the kundalini sleeps.
* 100 * Brhama Grandhi Vibhedini – She who breaks the tie in Brahma grandhi i.e
she who helps us to cross the ties due to our birth.
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