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Sharada Bhujanga Prayatashtakam
शारदाभुजङ्गप्रयाताष्टकम्
Śāradābhujaṅgaprayātāṣṭakam
Chant
कटाक्षे दयार्द्रां करे ज्ञानमुद्रां कलाभिर्विनिद्रां कलापैः सुभद्राम् । पुरस्त्रीं विनिद्रां पुरस्तुङ्गभद्रां भजे शारदाम्बामजस्रं मदम्बाम् ॥२॥
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Word breakdown
- कटाक्षे दयार्द्रां करे ज्ञानमुद्रां कलाभिर्विनिद्रां कलापैः सुभद्राम् । पुरस्त्रीं विनिद्रां पुरस्तुङ्गभद्रां भजे शारदाम्बामजस्रं मदम्बाम् ॥२॥
- I ever worship Sharada, my mother, moist with compassion in her sidelong glance, with the gesture of knowledge in her hand, skilled in arts, auspicious in branches of learning, foremost among women, foremost in lofty auspiciousness.
Compassion in the glance and jnana-mudra in the hand unite heart and insight; the arts and scriptures she masters are not ornaments on ignorance but expressions of the one consciousness that illumines every discipline.
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