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Shiva Namavalyashtakam
शिवनामावल्यष्टकम्
Śivanāmāvalyaṣṭakam
Chant
श्रीमन्महेश्वर कृपामय हे दयालो हे व्योमकेश शितिकण्ठ गणाधिनाथ भस्माङ्गराग नृकपालकलापमाल संसारदुःखगहनाज्जगदीश रक्ष ॥६॥
Study note
Word breakdown
- श्रीमन्महेश्वर कृपामय हे दयालो
- O gracious Maheshvara, full of mercy, O compassionate one,
- हे व्योमकेश शितिकण्ठ गणाधिनाथ
- O sky-haired one, white-throated one, lord of the ganas,
- भस्माङ्गराग नृकपालकलापमाल
- O one anointed with ash on the limbs, with skull and peacock feather garland,
- संसारदुःखगहनाज्जगदीश रक्ष
- from the dense sorrow of samsara, O lord of the world, protect.
Mercy and ash, compassion and the garland of skulls, are not contradictions in the Lord but one face of truth; the kapalin who wears death's signs is the very mercy that frees the mind from fear of ending.
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