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Shiva Bhujangam
शिवभुजङ्गम्
Śivabhujaṅgam
Chant
इदानीमिदानीं मृतिर्मे भवित्री त्यहो सन्ततं चिन्तया पीडितोऽस्मि कथं नाम मा भून्मृतौ भीतिरेषा नमस्ते गतीनां गते नीलकण्ठ ॥२९॥
Study note
Word breakdown
- इदानीमिदानीं मृतिर्मे भवित्री
- Now, now death will be mine;
- त्यहो सन्ततं चिन्तया पीडितोऽस्मि
- ah, I am constantly tormented by anxiety.
- कथं नाम मा भून्मृतौ भीतिरेषा
- How may this fear in death not befall me?
- नमस्ते गतीनां गते नीलकण्ठ
- Salutation to you, O blue-throated one, goal of all paths.
Seeing Yama seize all without mercy, the singer begs Bhavanipati for fearlessness at death. Anxiety about imminent death dissolves only in refuge of Nilakantha, the goal of every path.
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