Lord Kalabhairava

śrībhairavasarvaphalapradastotram

(Shri Bhairava Sarvaphalaprada Stotram in English (IAST))

Also known as sri bhairava sarvaphalaprada stotram · shree bhairava sarvaphalaprada stotram · bhairava sarvaphalaprada stotram

Not a hymn in verse but a short sequence of mantras, each ending in svāhā, which is what the offering formula requires. It opens with the seed bhraṁ and asks Bhairava to avert what is unwanted, then turns to the planets and asks the same of all of them together. What follows is a list of requests set down without ornament: give knowledge, give wealth, take away my poverty and my sorrow, give a son. The plainness is the character of the text rather than a defect in it — a mantramaya stotra is meant to be used at a fire or a lamp with each line as a distinct offering, so it is built for utterance rather than for reading. Its title claims that it gives every fruit, and the sequence of asks is arranged to cover them in order.

|| stotram ||
oṃ bhraṃ bhairavāya aniṣṭanivāraṇāya svāhā |
mama sarve grahāḥ aniṣṭanivāraṇāya svāhā |
jñānaṃ dehi dhanaṃ dehi mama drāridrayaduḥkhanivāraṇāya svāhā |
sutaṃ dehi yaśo dehi mama gṛhakleśanivāraṇāya svāhā |
svāsthya dehi balaṃ dehi mama śatrunivāraṇāya svāhā |
siddhiṃ dehi jayaṃ dehi mama sarvaṛṇanivāraṇāya svāhā |
oṃ bhraṃ bhairavāya aniṣṭanivāraṇāya svāhā |
|| iti śrībhairavasarvaphalapradastotraṃ sampūrṇam ||

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