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Shiva Padadi Keshanta Varnana Stotram
शिवपादादिकेशान्तवर्णनस्तोत्रम्
Śivapādādikeśāntavarṇanastotram
Chant
यस्य प्राहुस्स्वरूपं सकलदिविषदां सारसर्वस्वयोगं यत्येषुश्शार्ङ्गधन्वा समजनि जगतां रक्षणे जागरूकः मौर्वी दर्वीकराणामपि च परिबृढः पूस्त्रयी सा च लक्ष्यं सोऽव्यादव्याजमस्मानशिवभिदनिशं नाकिनां श्रीपिनाकः ॥२॥
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Word breakdown
- यस्य प्राहुस्स्वरूपं सकलदिविषदां सारसर्वस्वयोगं
- Whose nature they declare to be the essence and entirety of yoga for all the gods,
- यत्येषुश्शार्ङ्गधन्वा समजनि जगतां रक्षणे जागरूकः
- in whom the bow-bearing one became wakeful for the protection of the worlds,
- मौर्वी दर्वीकराणामपि च परिबृढः पूस्त्रयी सा च लक्ष्यं
- the bowstring, the handle of the sacrificial ladle, and also the fullness - the threefold Vedas and their target,
- सोऽव्यादव्याजमस्मानशिवभिदनिशं नाकिनां श्रीपिनाकः
- may that Pinaka of the gods, Shiva's foe, protect us genuinely and always.
Pinaka is the foundation of the gods' yoga and the target of the bow that protects the worlds, for Shiva and Vishnu are one reality in different roles. The trident-bearing Lord whom the bowman worships is the Self in which protector and protected are not two.
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