Goddess Durga

जगदम्बार्तिक्यम्

(Jagadamba Artikyam (Sanskrit))

Mayureshvara

Also known as sarvasya svamasi mata sadvidusamadya

A Sanskrit arati by Mayureshvara, son of Ramanandana, whose refrain hails the Goddess as skilled in giving every boon to those who bow and as having lifted up lakhs of those who came to her for refuge. The opening verse claims her as the mother of all and the first among the truly learned, to be established by shruti, smriti, shastra and poets alike. The second makes creation, maintenance and dissolution her play and calls her the wedge of fire that burns the forest of a suppliant's sins. The third turns on the poet's own name: those who serve her are her peacocks, and the memory of her the rain-cloud they wait for. Speech itself, it ends, is a child in her presence — where is nectar, and where is wine?

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

सर्वस्य स्वमसि मता सद्विदुषामाद्या
श्रुतिभिः स्मृतिभिः शास्त्रैः कविभिः प्रतिपाद्या।
गायन्ति त्वच्चरितं निपुणा वृतवाद्याः
सा का त्वत्तोऽन्यावति नाम्ना पापाद्या॥
जय देवि प्रणमदखिलवरवितरणदक्षे
जय जगदम्ब समुद्धृतशरणागतलक्षे॥
मातर्जगदुत्पत्तिस्थितिसंहृतिलीले
संश्रितजनकल्मषवनकल्पदहनकीले।
सर्वत्र सदा सादरनतलालनशीले
स्वविमलगुणगणरञ्जितविधिशिवधननीले॥
जय देवि...॥
तव सेवाऽर्थिजनानां चिन्तामणिशाला
भक्तमयूराणां ते स्मृतिरम्बुदमाला।
त्वां स्तोतुं त्वत्पुरतो गीरपि खलु बाला
का तत्रान्यकविकथा क्व सुधा क्व च हाला?॥
जय देवि...॥
॥ इति श्रीरामनन्दनमयूरेश्वरकृतं जगदम्बार्तिक्यं सम्पूर्णम् ॥

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