FW: Question on a particular shiva-stotram

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[ADVAITA-L]On Behalf Of Ravi Mayavaram

Friday, December 20, 2002 2:42 PM

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Re: Question on a particular shiva-stotram

 

 

I think it is called yama bhaya nivAraNa stotram.

 

Please see

 

http://www.mypandit.com/mypandit/user/sloka_3.jsp (this a very nice audio

of this verse).

 

 

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6893/ssmiscel.htm (shaivam.org)

 

Probably if you send e-mail to any of the above, they may help you. I will

also post this to .

 

 

 

 

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:58:25 -0500, V. Krishnamurthy <profvk

wrote:

>Namaste

>

>For the devotees of Lord shiva, today is an important auspicious day

>because today was the day when the cosmic dance was enacted for the

>darshan of two great devotees Patanjali and VyAghra-pAda. The festival is

>called Arudra-darshanaM in the temple of Chidambaram and in all shiva

>centres of pilgrimage.

>

>I have a question on the following shiva stotra which I picked up fifty

>years ago from All India Radio Madras. But I have not been able to locate

>the text anywhere in print. Where does it come from? Who is the author? I

>think it must be a piece of eight verses of which I have only seven. The

>first of them is:

>

>ati-bhIShaNa kaTu-bhAshaNa yama-kinkara paTalI

>kR^ita-tADana pari-pIDana maranAgata-samaye /

>umayA saha mama cetasi yama-shAsana nivasan

>shiva-shankara shiva-shankara hara me hara duritaM //

>

>

>It goes on like this. The last quarter of each sloka is the same as that

>of the above.

>I recently searched in the Sanskrit documents site. But I could not find

>it there.

>

>praNAms to all seekers of spirituality

>profvk