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Shiva Namavalyashtakam
शिवनामावल्यष्टकम्
Śivanāmāvalyaṣṭakam
Chant
हे विश्वनाथ शिव शङ्कर देवदेव गङ्गाधर प्रमथनायक नन्दिकेश बाणेश्वरान्धकरिपो हर लोकनाथ संसारदुःखगहनाज्जगदीश रक्ष ॥४॥
Study note
Word breakdown
- हे विश्वनाथ शिव शङ्कर देवदेव
- O Vishvanatha, Shiva, Shankara, god of gods,
- गङ्गाधर प्रमथनायक नन्दिकेश
- O bearer of Ganga, leader of pramathas, Nandikeshvara,
- बाणेश्वरान्धकरिपो हर लोकनाथ
- O foe of Baneshvara and Andhaka, O Hari, lord of worlds,
- संसारदुःखगहनाज्जगदीश रक्ष
- from the dense sorrow of samsara, O lord of the world, protect.
Vishvanatha of Kashi and Gangadhara unite place and purifying stream in one Lord; the prayer from sorrow's forest seeks the devadeva in whom destruction of demons and compassion for worlds are one act of consciousness.
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