চিন্তামণি ষট্পদী

• দ্বিরদবদন (dviradavadana)O you with the face of the elephant
• বিষমরদ (viṣamarada)O you with the odd tusk
• বরদ (varada)O giver of boons
• জয (jaya)be victorious
• ঈশান (īśāna)O lord
• শান্তবরসদন (śāntavarasadana)O you whose home is peace and blessing
• সদনবসাদন (sadanavasādana)O you who lift a house out of its sinking
• দযযা (dayayā)out of kindness
• কুরু (kuru)make
• সাদনম্ (sādanam)the bringing down
• অন্তরাযস্য (antarāyasya)of the obstacle

anvaya দ্বিরদবদন বিষমরদ বরদ ঈশান শান্তবরসদন সদনবসাদন জয দযযা অন্তরাযস্য সাদনম্ কুরু

chandas Irregular by syllable count; the ṣaṭpadī is measured in beats, six feet to the verse

ষট্পদী shatpadi — Shatpadi means six-footed: a verse of six feet, and also a bee, which has six legs. The last verse turns on that second sense.

বিষমরদ with the odd tusk — Vishama is what does not divide in two. His tusks are odd in number, which is the polite way of saying one of them is broken.

অন্তরায the obstacle — Antaraya is what comes in between, the thing standing in the road. It is the exact word for what Ganesha is asked to remove.

note Attributed to Shankaracharya. সদনবসাদন is read সদন and অবসাদন, the sinking of a house; what is to be brought down is named at the end of the verse.

• ইন্দুকলাকলিতালিক (indukalākalitālika)on whose brow the moon's crescent is set
• সালিক (sālika)with the mark on the forehead
• শুম্ভত্কপোলপালিযুগ (śumbhatkapolapāliyuga)whose two cheeks shine on either side
• বিকটস্ফুটকটধারাধারঃ (vikaṭasphuṭakaṭadhārādhāraḥ)whose broad temples run open with must, and who is the ground that holds
• অস্য (asya)of this
• প্রপঞ্চস্য (prapañcasya)spreading world

anvaya ইন্দুকলাকলিতালিক সালিক শুম্ভত্কপোলপালিযুগ [ত্বম্] অস্য প্রপঞ্চস্য বিকটস্ফুটকটধারাধারঃ

chandas Irregular by syllable count; the ṣaṭpadī is measured in beats, six feet to the verse

প্রপঞ্চ the spreading world — Prapancha is the world seen as a spreading out into five, the elements and everything made of them.

ধারাধারঃ the stream and the ground — One word doing two jobs: dhara is the stream of must, adhara the ground that bears a weight. The pun holds the verse together.

• বরপরশুপাশপাণে (varaparaśupāśapāṇe)O you with the boon, the axe and the noose in your hands
• পণিতপণায (paṇitapaṇāya)for the stake that is offered
• অপণাযিতঃ (apaṇāyitaḥ)not to be bought
• অসি (asi)you are
• যতঃ (yataḥ)since
• আরূহ্য (ārūhya)having mounted
• বজ্রদন্তম্ (vajradantam)with teeth like adamant
• আখুম্ (ākhum)the mouse
• বিদধাসি (vidadhāsi)you make
• বিপদন্তম্ (vipadantam)an end of trouble

anvaya বরপরশুপাশপাণে যতঃ পণিতপণায অপণাযিতঃ অসি [ততঃ] বজ্রদন্তম্ আখুম্ আরূহ্য বিপদন্তম্ বিদধাসি

chandas Irregular by syllable count; the ṣaṭpadī is measured in beats, six feet to the verse

পণ a stake — Pana is what is put down in a wager or paid in a bargain. The line plays on the word three times over to say that he is not for sale.

আখুম্ the mouse — Akhu is the one that digs. His mount goes under what stands in the way rather than through it.

• লম্বোদর (lambodara)O hanging-bellied one
• দূর্বাসন (dūrvāsana)O you seated on durva grass
• শযধৃতসামোদমোদকাশনক (śayadhṛtasāmodamodakāśanaka)O you who eat the fragrant modak held in your hand
• শনকৈঃ (śanakaiḥ)slowly
• অবলোকয (avalokaya)look
• মাম্ (mām)at me
• যমান্তরাযাপহারিচারুদৃশা (yamāntarāyāpahāricārudṛśā)with that lovely glance which carries off death and every obstacle

anvaya লম্বোদর দূর্বাসন শযধৃতসামোদমোদকাশনক যমান্তরাযাপহারিচারুদৃশা মাম্ শনকৈঃ অবলোকয

chandas Irregular by syllable count; the ṣaṭpadī is measured in beats, six feet to the verse

দূর্বা durva grass — The grass offered to him in blades of twenty-one, and the only offering he is said to prefer to food.

শনকৈঃ slowly — The poet asks not for a look but for an unhurried one, as one asks a busy person for a moment.

• আনন্দতুন্দিলাখিলবৃন্দারকবৃন্দবন্দিতাঙ্ঘ্রিযুগ (ānandatundilākhilavṛndārakavṛndavanditāṅghriyuga)O you at whose two feet the whole company of gods, swollen with joy, bows
• সুখধৃতদণ্ডরসালঃ (sukhadhṛtadaṇḍarasālaḥ)holding the sugar cane staff with ease
• নাগজভালঃ (nāgajabhālaḥ)whose brow is an elephant's
• অতিভাসি (atibhāsi)you shine past all measure
• বিভো (vibho)O mighty one

anvaya আনন্দতুন্দিলাখিলবৃন্দারকবৃন্দবন্দিতাঙ্ঘ্রিযুগ বিভো সুখধৃতদণ্ডরসালঃ নাগজভালঃ অতিভাসি

chandas Irregular by syllable count; the ṣaṭpadī is measured in beats, six feet to the verse

তুন্দিল swollen — Tundila is having a swollen belly. The poet gives the gods his own shape, swollen with joy as he is swollen with sweets.

রসাল the sugar cane — Rasala is what holds juice: the mango, and the sugar cane he carries.

• অগণেযগুণ (agaṇeyaguṇa)O you with qualities past all counting
• ঈশাত্মজ (īśātmaja)O son of the lord
• চিন্তকচিন্তামণে (cintakacintāmaṇe)O wishing-gem of those who think of you
• গণেশান (gaṇeśāna)O Ganesha
• স্বচরণশরণম্ (svacaraṇaśaraṇam)one who has taken refuge at your own feet
• করুণাবরুণালয (karuṇāvaruṇālaya)O sea of kindness
• দেব (deva)O god
• পাহি (pāhi)protect
• মাম্ (mām)me
• দীনম্ (dīnam)wretched

anvaya অগণেযগুণ ঈশাত্মজ চিন্তকচিন্তামণে গণেশান করুণাবরুণালয দেব স্বচরণশরণম্ দীনম্ মাম্ পাহি

chandas Irregular by syllable count; the ṣaṭpadī is measured in beats, six feet to the verse

চিন্তামণে O wishing-gem — The stone that gives whatever is thought of, which is where the hymn gets its name. The play is on chintaka, the one who thinks, and chintamani, the gem of thought.

বরুণালয the sea — The home of Varuna, that is, the ocean. Kindness is given its size.

• রুচিরবচোঽমৃতরাবোন্নীতা (ruciravaco'mṛtarāvonnītā)carried up by the nectar-sound of lovely words
• নীতা (nītā)brought
• দিবম্ (divam)to heaven
• স্তুতিঃ (stutiḥ)the praise
• স্ফীতা (sphītā)full
• ইতি (iti)so
• ষট্পদী (ṣaṭpadī)this six-footed poem
• মদীযা (madīyā)of mine
• গণপতিপাদাম্বুজে (gaṇapatipādāmbuje)into the lotus of Ganapati's feet
• বিশতু (viśatu)let it enter

anvaya রুচিরবচোঽমৃতরাবোন্নীতা স্ফীতা স্তুতিঃ দিবম্ নীতা ইতি মদীযা ষট্পদী গণপতিপাদাম্বুজে বিশতু

chandas Irregular by syllable count; the ṣaṭpadī is measured in beats, six feet to the verse

ষট্পদী the six-footed poem — The same word means a bee. The last line asks the poem to go into the lotus of his feet the way a bee goes into a flower, which is why the poem is built on six feet.

note The hymn ends by naming its own form and making a picture of it.