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Shiva Bhujangam
शिवभुजङ्गम्
Śivabhujaṅgam
Chant
शिरोद्दृष्टिहृद्रोगशूलप्रमेह ज्वरार्शोजरायक्ष्महिक्काविषार्तान् त्वमाद्यो भिषग्भेषजं भस्म शम्भो त्वमुल्लाघयास्मान्वपुर्लाघवाय ॥१५॥
Study note
Word breakdown
- शिरोद्दृष्टिहृद्रोगशूलप्रमेह
- For those afflicted with head-disease, heart-disease, colic, diabetes,
- ज्वरार्शोजरायक्ष्महिक्काविषार्तान्
- fever, piles, old age, consumption, hiccup, and poison,
- त्वमाद्यो भिषग्भेषजं भस्म शम्भो
- you are the primal physician; ash is the medicine, Shambhu;
- त्वमुल्लाघयास्मान्वपुर्लाघवाय
- you lighten us for lightness of body.
Shiva is the primal physician whose sacred ash heals every affliction. Bodily and spiritual disease alike find remedy in the Lord who lightens the burden of embodied existence.
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