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Shiva Keshadi Padanta Varnana Stotram
शिवकेशादिपादान्तवर्णनस्तोत्रम्
Śivakeśādipādāntavarṇanastotram
Chant
युग्मे रुक्माब्जपिङ्गे ग्रह इव पिहिते द्राग्ययोः प्राग्दुहित्रा शैलस्य ध्वान्तनीलाम्बररचितबृहत्कञ्चुकोऽभूत्प्रपञ्चः ते त्रैनेत्रे पवित्रे त्रिदशवरघटामित्रजैत्रोग्रशस्त्रे नेत्रे नेत्रे भवेतां द्रुतमिह भवतामिन्द्रियाश्वान्नियन्तुम् ॥५॥
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Word breakdown
- युग्मे रुक्माब्जपिङ्गे ग्रह इव पिहिते द्राग्ययोः प्राग्दुहित्रा
- When the pair, gold-lotus-ruddy, are covered like planets by the mountain-king's elder daughter just now,
- शैलस्य ध्वान्तनीलाम्बररचितबृहत्कञ्चुकोऽभूत्प्रपञ्चः
- the world became a great coat of dark-blue garment woven by the mountain,
- ते त्रैनेत्रे पवित्रे त्रिदशवरघटामित्रजैत्रोग्रशस्त्रे
- those three holy eyes, fierce weapons victorious over the foe of the gods' chief,
- नेत्रे नेत्रे भवेतां द्रुतमिह भवतामिन्द्रियाश्वान्नियन्तुम्
- may those eyes, each eye, swiftly become yours here, to restrain the horses of the senses.
The three eyes that veil and unveil the world are the Lord's power of knowledge, will, and action. To pray that they restrain the senses is to seek the Self's own sight, in which objects no longer drive the mind like unbridled horses.
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