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Shivananda Lahari
शिवानन्दलहरी
Śivānandalaharī
Chant
बाणत्वं वृषभत्वमर्धवपुषा भार्यात्वमार्यापते घोणित्वं सखिता मृदङ्गवहता चेत्यादि रूपं दधौ त्वत्पादे नयनार्पणं च कृतवान् त्वद्देहभागो हरिः पूज्यात्पूज्यतरः स एव हि न चेत् को वा तदन्योऽधिकः ॥८२॥
Study note
Word breakdown
- बाणत्वं वृषभत्वमर्धवपुषा भार्यात्वमार्यापते
- arrow-state, bull-state, half-body as wife-state, friend-state, drum-bearer and other forms
- घोणित्वं सखिता मृदङ्गवहता चेत्यादि रूपं दधौ
- Hari placed eye-offering and became part of Your body
- त्वत्पादे नयनार्पणं च कृतवान् त्वद्देहभागो हरिः
- more worshipful than the worshipful
- पूज्यात्पूज्यतरः स एव हि न चेत् को वा तदन्योऽधिकः
- if not, who else is greater
Gods took humble forms in Shiva's service; Vishnu offered his eye. The Lord surpasses all worshipful beings; the Self is the highest to whom even Vishnu bows.
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