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AUM shrImAtre namaH

 

Dear ambaaL bhakta-s:

 

I welcome the new members shrI Ramu Thiagarajan and shrI Sunder

Hattangadi to . Please post an self introduction about

yourselves, so that everyone will know you better. But if you

find it uncomfortable it is not necessary.

 

I know shrI sunderji for sometime and he is an active contributor

to the famous Sanskrit site

ftp://jagaur.cs.utah.edu/private/sanskrit/ Recently sunderji had

added kAmAkShI suprabhaatam to that server. This was composed by

one shrI lakshmikanta sharma, at the behest of our beloved

paramacharya shrI chandrasekharendra sarasvatii svamigal. The

Author salutes both mahAsvamigaL and shrI jayendrar in the

work.

 

Right at the introduction, the shrI sharma apologizes to ambaaL for

singing suprabhaatam to HER. Why? SHE is jagat rakShakii and does not

even blink HER eyes (for if SHE did the worlds will perish), it our

error that we attribute our tendencies like sleeping and waking up to

ambaaL and sing suprabhaatam to HER. SHE is ever awake.

 

In the next verse, he goes on to say that if your morning is

auspicious and good, so will be mine. Hence, I sing this

suprabhaatam to you so that my morning will be a suprabhaatam.

 

jagadavana vidhau tvaM jaagaruukaa bhavaani

tava tu janani nidraamaatmavatkalpayitvaa .

pratidivasamahaM tvaaM bodhayaami prabhaate

tvayi kR^itamaparaadhaM sarvametaM xamasva .. 1..

 

yadi prabhaataM tava suprabhaataM

tadaa prabhaataM mama suprabhaatam.h .

tasmaatprabhaate tava suprabhaataM

vaxyaami maataH kuru suprabhaatam.h .. 2..

 

 

May be someone on the list can take up the translation of this

shrI kAmAkShI suprabhaatam. This work also brings up the point of

kAnchi kaamaakShi, madurai miinAkShi and kaashi vishAlAkShi in the

verse,

 

tvaM vishvanaathasya vishaalanetraa

haalasyanaathasya nu miinanetraa .

ekaamranaathasya nu kaamanetraa

kaameshajaaye kuru suprabhaatam.h .. 23..

 

Also, unlike other works, author is technically correct in saying

"kuru suprabhaatam" rather than "tava suprabhaatam".

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Also we can think that when we sing suprabhaatam, we are requesting

the divinity dormant in us to be awaken. May ambaaL bestow us this

grace.

 

 

 

With respects,

Ravi

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na jnAyate ma hitaM nitarAM upAyo

dIno.asmi devI samayAcharaNAkShamo.asmi |

tat.h tvAM ananya sharaNaH sharaNaM prapadye

mInAkShI vishva jananIM jananI mamaiva ||

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