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Uma Maheshwara Stotram
उमामहेश्वरस्तोत्रम्
Umāmaheśvarastotram
Chant
नमः शिवाभ्यां नवयौवनाभ्याम् परस्पराश्लिष्टवपुर्धराभ्याम् नगेन्द्रकन्यावृषकेतनाभ्याम् नमो नमः शङ्करपार्वतीभ्याम् ॥१॥
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Word breakdown
- नमः शिवाभ्यां नवयौवनाभ्याम्
- Salutations to the two Shivas ever in fresh youth,
- परस्पराश्लिष्टवपुर्धराभ्याम्
- who bear bodies mutually embraced,
- नगेन्द्रकन्यावृषकेतनाभ्याम्
- to the daughter of the king of mountains and the bull-bannered one,
- नमो नमः शङ्करपार्वतीभ्याम्
- again and again salutations to Shankara and Parvati.
Ever-youthful and mutually embraced, they show Shiva and Shakti as one life not aging in time; salutation to the divine pair is salutation to the non-dual reality in which power and consciousness are never apart.
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