chandas Prose, the opening salutation
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
महासुर the great demon — Madasura, the demon of pride. Ekadanta did not kill him: he overcame him, and the demon surrendered and grew calm.
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
note भ्रग्वादय is printed for भृग्वादय, Bhrigu and the rest.
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
सदात्मरूपं सकलादिभूतममायिनं सोऽहमचिन्त्यबोधम् ।
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
सोऽहम् I am he — The thought in which the worshipper knows the god as his own self.
एकदन्त Ekadanta — The one-tusked. Every verse of the praise ends: we go for refuge to that Ekadanta.
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
note ह्म is printed for ह्य here and in several verses below: हि अभेद, indeed beyond oneness.
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
निरालम्बसमाधि samadhi that leans on nothing — Absorption that rests on no object at all, the highest kind of samadhi.
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
बिन्दु the bindu — The point: the first gathered seed from which the world unfolds.
note From here to verse 15 the hymn tells how the world unfolds from him: the bindu, then sound, then the three strands of nature and the three states of waking, dream and deep sleep.
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
note तस्या स्ववीर्य is printed for तस्यै स्ववीर्यम्, to it, his own power.
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
नाद sound — Nada, the first vibration, which comes after the bindu as the world unfolds.
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
note The three are Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, each set in his own work.
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
सत्त्व, रजस्, तमस् the three strands of nature — Clarity, activity and dullness. The hymn pairs dullness with the first dark world, clarity with the subtle world of dream, and activity with the waking world.
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
note वभूव is printed for बभूव, became.
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
note तच्य is printed for तच्च, and that.
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
note प्रक्रति is printed for प्रकृति, nature.
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
note From here the praise speaks of him instead of to him: by whose command.
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
जठराग्नि fire in the belly — The fire that digests food: fire lives in living bodies as well as on the altar.
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
note संस्थिततेकगूढं is printed for संस्थितमेकगूढं, the one hidden within.
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
chandas Upajāti, a half verse
note The praise runs to twenty-one verses, from 3 to 23.
एवं स्तुत्वा च प्रह्लादं देवाः समुनयश्र्च वै ।
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
गृत्समद Gritsamada — The great Ganapatya sage who tells this story. The Rig Veda's second book, with its hymns to Brahmanaspati, is ascribed to his family.
note ग्रत्सप्तद is printed for गृत्समद.
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
note प्रोतात्मा is printed for प्रीतात्मा, pleased at heart.
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
प्रसन्नोस्मि च स्तोत्रेण सुराः सर्षिगणाः किल ।
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
note मत्म्यन्तं is printed for मत्यन्तं, in plenty.
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
note These are harms that others might work against the reader. मारणोंचटन is printed for मारणोच्चाटन.
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
note Twenty-one is Ganapati's number: twenty-one blades of durva, twenty-one modakas, and here twenty-one verses, read twenty-one times over twenty-one days. श्लोकाच्श्रैवैकविंशतिम् is printed for श्लोकांश्चैवैकविंशतिम्.
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), a half verse
