Goddess Parvati

jānakīkṛtaṃ pārvatī stotram (pati prāpti)

(Janaki Krita Parvati Stotra in English (IAST))

From Brahmavaivarta Purana

Also known as saktisvarupe sarvesam sarvadhare gunasraye

Thirteen verses from the Brahmavaivarta Purana in which Janaki praises Parvati, and the request is stated in the third: knower of a husband's heart, devoted to the vow of a wife, faithful and loving to him — give me a husband, salutation to you. It is asked by one bride of another woman on the same footing. The verses that follow widen far past the occasion. One of them takes the ordinary conditions of being alive and gives them all to her: hunger, thirst, desire, compassion, faith, sleep, drowsiness, memory and forbearance are all your parts, Narayani, salutation to you. The record opens with a paragraph of Hindi editorial prose from the source, which is not part of the text.

|| jānakīkṛtaṃ pārvatīstotram ||
jānakī uvāca|
śaktisvarūpe sarveṣāṃ sarvādhāre guṇāśraye |
sadā śaṃkarayukte ca patiṃ dehi namo'stu te || 1 ||
sṛṣṭisthityanta rūpeṇa sṛṣṭisthityanta rūpiṇī |
sṛṣṭisthiyanta bījānāṃ bījarūpe namo'stu te || 2 ||
he gauri patimarmajñe pativrataparāyaṇe |
pativrate patirate patiṃ dehi namo'stu te || 3 ||
sarvamaṃgala maṃgalye sarvamaṃgala saṃyute |
sarvamaṃgala bīje ca namaste sarvamaṃgale || 4 ||
sarvapriye sarvabīje sarva aśubha vināśinī |
sarveśe sarvajanake namaste śaṃkarapriye || 5 ||
paramātmasvarūpe ca nityarūpe sanātani |
sākāre ca nirākāre sarvarūpe namo'stu te || 6 ||
|| aṣṭa svarūpa varṇana ||
kṣut tṛṣṇecchā dayā śraddhā nidrā tandrā smṛtiḥ kṣamā |
etāstava kalāḥ sarvāḥ nārāyaṇi namo'stu te || 7 ||
lajjā medhā tuṣṭi puṣṭi śānti saṃpatti vṛddhayaḥ |
etāstva kalāḥ sarvāḥ sarvarūpe namo'stu te || 8 ||
dṛṣṭādṛṣṭa svarūpe ca tayorbīja phalaprade |
sarvānirvacanīye ca mahāmāye namo'stu te || 9 ||
śive śaṃkara saubhāgyayukte saubhāgyadāyini |
hariṃ kāntaṃ ca saubhāgyaṃ dehi devī namo'stu te || 10 ||
|| phalaśruti ||
stotraṇānena yāḥ stutvā samāpti divase śivām |
namanti parayā bhaktyā tā labhanti hariṃ patim || 11 ||
iha kāntasukhaṃ bhuktvā patiṃ prāpya parātparam |
divyaṃ syandanamāruhya yāntyante kṛṣṇasaṃnidhim || 12 ||
|| iti śrī brahmavaivarta purāṇe jānakīkṛtaṃ pārvatīstotraṃ sampūrṇam ||

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