Lord Kalabhairava

śrīmārtaṇḍabhairavastotram (sūrya bhairava stotra)

(Shri Martanda Bhairava Stotram in English (IAST))

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

A hymn to Mārtaṇḍa Bhairava, the form in which the Sun and Bhairava are one god — the deity worshipped at Jejuri as Khaṇḍobā — and it is spoken by the Bhairavas themselves rather than by a sage or by Śiva. The joining is made in the epithets rather than argued: he is saluted as Sthāṇu and as the supreme self in one line and as Bhairava, terrible, in the next; then as skilled in raising the dead and as the cause of deliverance from the womb; then as Hiraṇyagarbha and as the impeller of thought, which quotes the Gāyatrī at the god it belongs to. Later verses put the two names side by side without seam — to Viśvāmitra, to Sūrya, to the seer, to the supreme self, to the one whose form is the great Bhairava — and the closing verses pile intensifiers, hero beyond heroes, terrible beyond the terrible, whose light is beyond the sun and the moon and the fire.

bhairavā ūcuḥ -
namo mārtāṇḍanāthāya sthāṇave paramātmane |
bhairavāya subhīmāya tridhāmneśa namo namaḥ || 1 ||
mṛtoddhāraṇadakṣāya garbhoddharaṇahetave |
tejasāṃ ketave tubhyaṃ hetave jagatāmapi || 2 ||
hiraṇyagarbharūpāya dhīpraṇodāya te namaḥ |
oṅkāravyāhṛtisthāya mahāvīrāya te namaḥ || 3 ||
vīreśāya namastubhyaṃ kṣetreśāya namo namaḥ |
vedārthāya ca vedāya vedagarbhāya śambhave || 4 ||
viśvāmitrāya sūryāya sūraye paramātmane |
mahābhairavarūpāya bhairavānandadāyine || 5 ||
dvividhadhvāntadhvaṃsāya mahāmohavināśine |
māyāndhakāranāśāya cakṣustimirabhañjine || 6 ||
mantrāya mantrarūpāya mantrākṣaravicāriṇe |
mantravācyāya devāya mahāmantrārthadāyine || 7 ||
yantrāya yantrarūpāya yantrasthāya yamāya te |
yantrairniyantrairniyamairyamināṃ phaladāya ca || 8 ||
ajñānatimiradhvaṃsakāriṇe kleśahāriṇe |
mahāpātakahartre ca mahābhayavināśine || 9 ||
bhayadāya suśīlāya bhayānakaravāya te |
bībhatsāya ca raudrāya bhītābhayapradāyine || 10 ||
tejasvitejorūpāya caṇḍāyayogrāya te namaḥ |
bījāya bījarūpāya bījabhargāya te namaḥ || 11 ||
krodhabhargāya devāya lobhabhargāya te namaḥ |
mahābhargāya vai tubhyaṃ jñānabhargāya te namaḥ || 12 ||
ghorabhargāya te tubhyaṃ bhītibhargāya te namaḥ |
suśokāya viśokāya jñānabhargāya te namaḥ || 13 ||
tattvabhargāya devāya manobhargāya vai namaḥ |
dāridryaduḥkhabhargaya kāmabhargāya te namaḥ || 14 ||
hiṃsābhargāya tāmisrabhargāya jagadātmane |
atidurvāsanābharga namaste bhairavātmane || 15 ||
dhyāyante yaṃ bharga iti bhargabhargāya te namaḥ |
rogabhargāya devāya pāpabhargāya te namaḥ || 16 ||
mahāpātakabhargāya hyupapātakabhargiṇe |
mahānirayabhargāya nṛttabhargāya te namaḥ || 17 ||
kleśabhargāya devāya bhautikaghnāya te namaḥ |
mṛtyubhargāya devāya durgabhargāya te namaḥ || 18 ||
dhyānāddhyāyanti yadbhargaṃ yaminaḥ saṃyatendriyāḥ |
nāthāya bharganāthāya bhargāya satataṃ namaḥ || 19 ||
vīravīreśa deveśa namaste'stu tridhāmaka |
mahāmārtāṇḍa varada sarvābhayavaraprada || 20 ||
namo vīrādhivīreśa sūryacandrātidhāmaka |
agnidhāmātidhāmne ca mahāmārtāṇḍa te namaḥ || 21 ||
vīrātivīra vīreśa ghoraghorārtighoraka |
mahāmārtāṇḍadeveśa bhūyo bhūyo namo namaḥ || 22 ||
|| iti śrīmārtaṇḍabhairavastotraṃ sampūrṇam ||

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