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Ganapati Stotram
गणपतिस्तोत्रम्
Gaṇapatistotram
Chant
सुवर्णदण्डमण्डितप्रचण्डचारुचामरं गृहप्रतीर्णसुन्दरं युगक्षणं प्रमोदितम् । कवीन्द्रचित्तरञ्जकं महाविपत्तिभञ्जकं षडक्षरस्वरूपिणं भजेद्गजेन्द्ररूपिणम् ॥३॥
Study note
Word breakdown
- सुवर्णदण्डमण्डितप्रचण्डचारुचामरं
- With a golden staff and fierce, beautiful fly-whisks.
- गृहप्रतीर्णसुन्दरं युगक्षणं प्रमोदितम् ।
- Beautiful as a well-kept home, delighted in every moment of time.
- कवीन्द्रचित्तरञ्जकं महाविपत्तिभञ्जकं
- Delighter of poets' hearts, breaker of great calamities.
- षडक्षरस्वरूपिणं भजेद्गजेन्द्ररूपिणम् ॥३॥
- Embodiment of the six-syllable mantra; one should worship the elephant Lord.
He who is the six-syllable Om is the primordial sound from which all speech arises and into which it returns. Breaking calamity means severing identification with the body-mind complex.
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