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Gangashtakam
गङ्गाष्टकम्
Gaṅgāṣṭakam
Chant
शैलेन्द्रात् अवतारिणी निजजले मज्जत् जनोत्तारिणी पारावारविहारिणी भवभयश्रेणी समुत्सारिणी । शेषाहेरनुकारिणी हरशिरोवल्लीदलाकारिणी काशीप्रान्तविहारिणी विजयते गङ्गा मनोहारिणी ॥६॥
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Word breakdown
- शैलेन्द्रात् अवतारिणी निजजले मज्जत् जनोत्तारिणी पारावारविहारिणी भवभयश्रेणी समुत्सारिणी । शेषाहेरनुकारिणी हरशिरोवल्लीदलाकारिणी काशीप्रान्तविहारिणी विजयते गङ्गा मनोहारिणी ॥६॥
- Descending from the king of mountains, uplifting people who plunge in her waters, sporting in the ocean, dispelling the ranks of fear of becoming, imitating Shesha the serpent, shaped like the vine-leaf on Hara's head, delighting at Kashi's edge, victorious is Ganga, bewitcher of the mind.
She who descends to raise the drowning and sports at the world's edge is the inward current that carries the seeker across the sea of birth; fear of becoming dissolves where the mind meets this ever-flowing grace.
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