Kamakalavilasa

[Guest guest]

I found this translation of kamakalavilasa by Philip Rawson,htought i

will share it at least to get away from the onion garlic discussion

(like we were a culinary group).

Translators explanatory additions are in brackets.

( I have left out the diacrtical marks)

 

Kamalalavilasa

 

1.May He[siva],who in blissful play is awake in his [cosmic activity

of]creating, sustaining and dissolving all at once, protect you,the

Great Lord whose nature is th esublte original spark(Prakasa),within

whom is contained the universal unfolding[Vimarsa].

 

2.She the primordial Sakti is supreme, whose nature is unoriginated

and undisrurbedjoy,eternal[in that She transcends the divisions of

time],utterly incomparable [hence indescribable], the seed of all

that moves or is motionless, the spotless mirror in which is revealed

the [radiant] form of Siva.

 

3.She the supreme Sakti has the form of both the seed and the

sproughtof the revealed coming together of Siva and Sakti; subtlest

of the subtle,She is contained in[all that lies between ]the first

and the last letters[of the alphabet,which contains the original root

forms from which the names of everything in the world are compounded].