Lord Shani

शनिमङ्गलस्तोत्रम्

(Sanimangalastotram)

Also known as shani mangala stotram · sanimangalastotra · jyotisiya svarupa

A hymn for the propitiation of Saturn that opens as a page of astrology rather than as praise. Manda is dark as black, west-facing, of the Saurāṣṭra country and the Kāśyapa lineage; lord of Capricorn and Aquarius; Budha and Śukra are his friends and Aṅgiras is neutral to him; his quarter is the west, Prajāpati and Yama his deities, his seat the shape of a bow; placed in the sixth or the third he does good. Only after the chart is drawn does the tone change into the confession that the graha hymns use — I do not know how to invite you and I do not know how to send you away; I do not know worship at all; forgive me, supreme lord. Setting the technical description first and the helplessness second is what distinguishes the maṅgala form: it is the prayer of somebody who has consulted an almanac and then come to the shrine anyway.

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

॥ श्रीशनिमङ्गलस्तोत्रम् ॥
ज्योतिषीय स्वरूप (Astrological Nature)
मन्दः कृष्णनिभस्तु पश्चिममुखः सौराष्ट्रकः काश्यपः ।
स्वामी नक्रभकुम्भयोर्बुधसितौ मित्रे समश्चाऽङ्गिराः ॥ १॥
स्थानं पश्चिमदिक् प्रजापति यमौ देवौ धनुष्यासनः ।
षट्त्रिस्थः शुभकृच्छनी रविसुतः कुर्यात्सदा मङ्गलम् ॥ २॥
क्षमा प्रार्थना (Prayer for Forgiveness)
आवाहनं न जानामि न जानामि विसर्जनम् ।
पूजां नैव हि जानामि क्षमस्व परमेश्वर ॥ १॥
मन्त्रहीनं क्रियाहीनं भक्तिहीनं सुरेश्वर ।
यत्पूजितं मया देव परिपूर्णं तदस्तु मे ॥ २॥
प्रणाम मंत्र (Salutation)
कोणनीलाञ्जनप्रख्यं मन्दचेष्टाप्रसारिणम् ।
छायामार्तण्डसम्भूतं तं नमामि शनैश्चरम् ॥ ३॥
समर्पण एवं मंत्र (Offering & Mantra)
ॐ अनया पूजया शनैश्चरः प्रीयताम् ।
ॐ मन्दाय नमः । ॐ घटनाथाय नमः । ॐ शनैश्चराय नमः ।
॥ ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥
॥ इति श्रीशनिमङ्गलस्तोत्रं सम्पूर्णम् ॥

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