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Shiva Namavalyashtakam
शिवनामावल्यष्टकम्
Śivanāmāvalyaṣṭakam
Chant
हे नीलकण्ठ वृषभध्वज पञ्चवक्त्र लोकेश शेषवलय प्रमथेश शर्व हे धूर्जटे पशुपते गिरिजापते मां संसारदुःखगहनाज्जगदीश रक्ष ॥३॥
Study note
Word breakdown
- हे नीलकण्ठ वृषभध्वज पञ्चवक्त्र
- O blue-throated one, bull-bannered, five-faced,
- लोकेश शेषवलय प्रमथेश शर्व
- O lord of worlds, circled by Shesha, lord of pramathas, Sharva,
- हे धूर्जटे पशुपते गिरिजापते मां
- O Dhurjati, O Pashupati, lord of Girija, me
- संसारदुःखगहनाज्जगदीश रक्ष
- from the dense sorrow of samsara, O lord of the world, protect.
Blue throat and five faces, Pashupati of every creature, show the Lord as protector of all bonds and releaser from them; when the mind cries from samsara's depth, it calls the one who is already the inner ruler of every life.
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