Lord Hanuman

śrī hanumattāṇḍavastotram

(Sri Hanumattandavastotram in English (IAST))

Lokeshvara Bhatta

Also known as hanuman tandav stotram · shri hanumattandavastotram · shree hanumattandavastotram

Its meditation verse is entirely red — vermilion-coloured, dressed in red cloth, bright with red unguent, and a red tail — and the stotra that follows moves at the speed the title promises, in a galloping internally rhymed metre where every phrase chimes against the one before it. I worship the son of the wind, delight of the minds of good devotees, devourer of the form of the day-maker, protector of every devotee, accomplisher of Sugriva's business, obstructer of the enemy's side, goer to the far shore of the ocean. Its third verse holds the image the whole piece is arranged around: with his two long arms he set the two lords of Kosala upon his own two shoulders, there in the presence of the monkey king. The last verse dates itself in word-numerals and names the poet, a Bhatta called Lokeshvara.

|| dhyāna ||
vande sindūravarṇābhaṃ lohitāmbarabhūṣitam|
raktāṅgarāgaśobhāḍhyaṃ śoṇāpucchaṃ kapīśvaram||
|| stotra pāṭha ||
bhaje samīranandanaṃ, subhaktacittarañjanaṃ,
dineśarūpabhakṣakaṃ, samastabhaktarakṣakam|
sukaṇṭhakāryasādhakaṃ, vipakṣapakṣabādhakaṃ,
samudrapāragāminaṃ, namāmi siddhakāminam||1||
suśaṅkitaṃ sukaṇṭhabhuktavān hi yo hitaṃ
vacastvamāśu dhairyyamāśrayātra vo bhayaṃ kadāpi na|
iti plavaṅganāthabhāṣitaṃ niśamya vāna-
rā'dhinātha āpa śaṃ tadā, sa rāmadūta āśrayaḥ||2||
sudīrghabāhulocanena, pucchagucchaśobhinā,
bhujadvayena sodarīṃ nijāṃsayugmamāsthitau|
kṛtau hi kosalādhipau, kapīśarājasannidhau,
vidahajeśalakṣmaṇau, sa me śivaṃ karotvaram||3||
suśabdaśāstrapāragaṃ, vilokya rāmacandramāḥ,
kapīśa nāthasevakaṃ, samastanītimārgagam|
praśasya lakṣmaṇaṃ prati, pralambabāhubhūṣitaḥ
kapīndrasakhyamākarot, svakāryasādhakaḥ prabhuḥ||4||
pracaṇḍavegadhāriṇaṃ, nagendragarvahāriṇaṃ,
phaṇīśamātṛgarvahṛddṛśāsyavāsanāśakṛt|
vibhīṣaṇena sakhyakṛdvideha jātitāpahṛt,
sukaṇṭhakāryasādhakaṃ, namāmi yātudhatakam||5||
namāmi puṣpamaulinaṃ, suvarṇavarṇadhāriṇaṃ
gadāyudhena bhūṣitaṃ, kirīṭakuṇḍalānvitam|
supucchagucchatucchalaṃkadāhakaṃ sunāyakaṃ
vipakṣapakṣarākṣasendra-sarvavaṃśanāśakam||6||
raghūttamasya sevakaṃ namāmi lakṣmaṇapriyaṃ
dineśavaṃśabhūṣaṇasya mudrīkāpradarśakam|
videhajātiśokatāpahāriṇam prahāriṇam
susūkṣmarūpadhāriṇaṃ namāmi dīrgharūpiṇam||7||
nabhasvadātmajena bhāsvatā tvayā kṛtā
mahāsahā yatā yayā dvayorhitaṃ hyabhūtsvakṛtyataḥ|
sukaṇṭha āpa tārakāṃ raghūttamo videhajāṃ
nipātya vālinaṃ prabhustato daśānanaṃ khalam||8||
imaṃ stavaṃ kuje'hni yaḥ paṭhetsucetasā naraḥ
kapīśanāthasevako bhunaktisarvasampadaḥ|
plavaṅgarājasatkṛpākatākṣabhājanassadā
na śatruto bhayaṃ bhavetkadāpi tasya nustviha||9||
netrāṅganandadharaṇīvatsare'naṅgavāsare|
lokeśvarākhyabhaṭṭena hanumattāṇḍavaṃ kṛtam||10||
|| iti śrīhanumattāṇḍavastotram sampūrṇam ||

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