RE: Nrsimha Maha-Mantra - word by word?

[Guest guest]

would someone more learned care to improve on this attempted word-for-word

synonyms, please?

 

thank you

 

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om hrim ksraum - bIj mantra for Lord Narasimha (?)

 

ugraM - ferocious / terrible

 

vIram - heroic

 

mahA-viSNuM - the Supreme Lord Maha Vishnu

 

jvalantaM - (guessing from the translation below) fiery?

 

sarvato mukham - whose face is everywhere / who faces all directions (?)

 

nRsiMhaM - Lord Nrsimha

 

bhISaNaM bhadraM - turns poison into auspicious substance

 

mRtyur mRtyuM - is the original mantra not 'mRtyumRtyum' ? - He is death to

death itself

 

namAmy ahaM - I offer my respectful obeisances unto Him

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rogier.Vrieling (AT) pamho (DOT) net [Rogier.Vrieling (AT) pamho (DOT) net]

Sunday, July 02, 2000 3:41 PM

(Krsna) Katha

Nrsimha Maha-Mantra

 

 

>On http://narasimha.avatara.org (website of Ugra Nrshma of Mayapur) I

>found this verse:

>

>om hrim ksraum

>ugram viram maha-vishnum

>jvalantam sarva to mukham

>nrsingam bhishanam bhadram

>mrityum mrityur namamayaham

>

>I was wondering if someone could provide me with diacritic marks and

>a translation of this verse.

 

 

ugraM vIram mahA-viSNuM

jvalantaM sarvato mukham I

nRsiMhaM bhISaNaM bhadraM

mRtyur mRtyuM namAmy ahaM II

 

 

I bow down to Lord NRsiMhadeva who is ferocious and heroic like Lord

ViSNu. He is burning from every side. He is terrific, auspicious and

the death of death personified.

 

 

"This mantra is quoted or at least referred to in many scriptures. The

NRsiMha TapAni UpaniSad also give the history of this mantra. In the

last creation the presiding deity was Lord NRsiMhadeva and this was

the mantra inspiring the entire creation into which Lord BrahmA was

initiated, as in the present creation the presiding deity is zrI KRSNa

and He initiated BrahmA into the KAma-GAyatri. (...)"

 

 

Bhaktivedanta Academy. (1998) 'zrI NarasiMha Stotra MAlA'. Anand

Printers: Mayapur. p. 9.

 

Thank you very much. Hare KRSNa!

Your humble servant, bhakta Rogier.