shiva-mahima stotra

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Mahimnah param to paramaviduso yadyasadrsi

Stutirbrabmadmamapi tadavasannastvay girah

Attavacyah sarvah svamatiparimanavadhi grnam

Mamapyesa stotre hara nirapavadah parikarah.

 

If praise of you by one who is ignorant of your greatness were

unbecoming then even the speech of Brahma and other Devas regarding

you will fall under the same category. Therefore, none should be

blamed for, each speaks according to the limits of his knowledge: O

Hara if this is accepted then this attempt of mine is certainly

blameless.

 

Attah panthanam tava ca mahima vanmanasayo

Ratadvyavrttya yam cakitamabhidhatte srutirapi

Sa kasya sttvayah katividhagundah kasya na vacah

 

Your greatness surpasses the powers of mind and speech. Even the

sruti speaks of you with awe that she is unable to portray fully. By

whom can you with praised? Who knows the number of your qualities?

Because, even mind and speech fail your qualities cannot be described

indeed.

 

Madhusphita vacah paramamartam nirmitavata

Stave Brahman kim vagapi suragurovismayapadam

Mama tvetam vanim gunkathanapunyena bhavatah

Punamtyarthe smin puramathana buddhivyavasita

 

Oh Brahman! Your Hymn, which is the supreme Nectar, sung by the very

Guru of the Devas-the very creator of sweet words-it is wonderful to

you? Oh! Destroyer of Tripura! My mind is bent upon invoking you so

that the recital of your attributes may purify my speech.

 

Akandabrahmanaksayachiktadevsurkrpa

Vidheyasyasidyastrinayana visam samhrtavah.

Sa kalmasah kanthe tava ne kurute na sriyamaho

Vikaro pi slaghyo bhuvanabhayabhangavyasasinah.

 

Oh three-eyed on! Who from mercy to Devas and Asurua, and invoked by

the threat of destruction to the universe did swallow poison, and its

blue stain on your throat, does it not really enhance Your Beauty?

Yes! For, even a disfigurement is full of grace in Him who suffers it

selflessly, when striving to rid the world of its fears and sorrows.

 

Hariste sahasram kamalabalimadhaya padayor

Yadekone tasminniijamudhaharanntrakamalam

Gato bhaktyudrekah parinatimasau cakravapusa

Trayanam raksayai tripurahara jagari jagatam.

 

Oh Destroyer of Tripura! When Hari desired to work ship Your Feet

with a thousand lotuses, and found that one was lacking. He plucked

out one of His beautiful discus, which He is every ready to wield for

the protection of three worlds.

 

Tvamarkastvam somastvamasi pavanastvam hutvahah

Tvamapastvam vyoma tvamu dharaniratma tvamaitica

Particchinnamevam tvayi parinata bibhratu giram

Na vidmastattattvam vayamiha tu yattvaam na bhavasi.

 

"You are the sun, the moon, the air and the fire! You are the water,

Ether, Earth and the " Sacrificer too" by such words did the ancients

sought to define the Limitlessness of Yours. But as for ourselves, we

do not know of anything that which is not already you.

 

Asitagirisamam syatkajjalam sindhupatre

Surataruvaraskha lekhani patravurvi

Likhati yadi grhitva sarada sarvakalam

Tadapai tava gunanamsa param na yati.

 

Oh lord! If sarda, the Giver of Happiness, were to write for all

times, with a pen made from a branch of the best of all celestial

trees, using the whole earth as Her writing pad, and if the mass of

ink used equaled the blue mountains and the ocean were Here int-pot-

still it would be impossible to express the true fullness of your

attributes.