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Manikarnikashtakam
मणिकर्णिकाष्टकम्
Maṇikarṇikāṣṭakam
Chant
गङ्गातीरमनुत्तमं हि सकलं तत्रापि काश्युत्तमा तस्यां सा मणिकर्णिकोत्तमतमा यत्रेश्वरो मुक्तिदः । देवानामपि दुर्लभं स्थलमिदं पापौघनाशक्षमं पूर्वोपार्जितपुण्यपुञ्जगमकं पुण्यैर्जनैः प्राप्यते ॥४॥
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Word breakdown
- गङ्गातीरमनुत्तमं हि सकलं तत्रापि काश्युत्तमा तस्यां सा मणिकर्णिकोत्तमतमा यत्रेश्वरो मुक्तिदः । देवानामपि दुर्लभं स्थलमिदं पापौघनाशक्षमं पूर्वोपार्जितपुण्यपुञ्जगमकं पुण्यैर्जनैः प्राप्यते ॥४॥
- All Ganga's banks are supreme, yet Kashi is supreme among them; in her, Manikarnika is most supreme, where the Lord grants liberation. This place rare even for gods destroys floods of sin; it is reached by people through heaps of merit gathered before.
Of all holy places Manikarnika is where the Lord grants mukti, reached through accumulated merit. Outer pilgrimage mirrors the inner journey earned by turning the mind toward the sacred.
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