Lord Budha (Mercury)

बुधमङ्गलस्तोत्रम्

(Budhamangalastotram)

Also known as budhamangalastotra · saumyodanmukhapitavarnamagadhascatreyagotrodbhavo

Not a hymn so much as the closing packet of a Wednesday worship, and its first two verses are astrology rather than praise. Budha is set out as a graha is set out in a handbook: gentle, north-facing, yellow, lord of Magadha, born in the Atreya gotra, holding the north-east; friend to Saturn and Venus and always the enemy of the cold-rayed one, which is to say of the Moon, who is his own father. Lord of Virgo and of Gemini, with Vishnu for his presiding deity. Only after that does anyone address him, and what comes then is the universal apology: I do not know how to invoke you, I do not know how to dismiss you, I do not know worship at all, forgive me. Then one direct request, that he who begets intelligence should give the understanding of what is real, and the offering is made over.

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Script: Devanagari (देवनागरी) — also the script of Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and Konkani.

॥ श्रीबुधमङ्गलस्तोत्रम् ॥

स्वरूप वर्णन (Description of Budha)

सौम्योदङ्मुख-पीतवर्ण-मगधश्चात्रेयगोत्रोद्भवो ।
बाणेशानदिशः सुहृच्छनिभृगुः शत्रुः सदा शीतगुः ॥ १॥
कन्या युग्मपतिर्दशाष्टचतुरः षण्नेत्रकः शोभनो ।
विष्णुः पौरुषदेवते शशिसुतः कुर्यात्सदा मङ्गलम् ॥ २॥

क्षमा प्रार्थना एवं स्तुति (Prayer for Intelligence)

आवाहनं न जानामि न जानामि विसर्जनम् ।
पूजां नैव हि जानामि क्षमस्व परमेश्वर ॥ १॥
मन्त्रहीनं क्रियाहीनं भक्तिहीनं सुरेश्वर ।
यत्पूजितं मया देव परिपूर्णं तदस्तु मे ॥ २॥
बुध त्वं बुद्धिजननो बोधवान् सर्वदा नृणाम् ।
तत्त्वावबोधं कुरु मे सोमपुत्र नमोऽस्तु ते ॥ ३॥

समर्पण (Offering)

अनया पूजया बुधदेवः प्रीयताम् ।
ॐ बुधाय नमः । ॐ आत्रेयाय नमः । ॐ सोमपुत्राय नमः ।
॥ ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥
॥ इति श्रीबुधमङ्गलस्तोत्रं सम्पूर्णम् ॥

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