Lord Hanuman

śrī saṅkaṣṭamocana stotram (kāśī pīṭhādhīśvara kṛta)

(Sri Sankastamocana Stotram Kasi Pithadhisvara Krta in English (IAST))

Maheshvarananda Saraswati

Also known as shri sankashta mochana stotram maheshvarananda · shri sankastamocana stotram kasi pithadhisvara krta · shree sankastamocana stotram kasi pithadhisvara krta

A Sankat Mochan stotra — and Sankat Mochan here is Hanuman, not Ganesha, which is what this record had been filed under. Everything in it says so: the great ocean leapt in high spirits, the burning of the city of Lanka, the Drona mountain fetched, the emperor of the monkeys, the son of the wind, the helper of Rama and Lakshmana. Its third verse places him exactly, as the wrestler of the mansion shining to the south in Kashi, which is the Sankat Mochan temple there. The fourth is the plainest account of how that shrine is used: merely remembered he gives to those who worship, properly worshipped he grants the increase of what is wished for, he is fond of modakas — and he takes his greatest delight in the hearing of the Ramayana. Laid by its author at Maruti's feet.

kāśīpīṭhādhīśvara jagadguruśaṅkarācāryasvāmi śrīmaheśvarānandasarasvatīviracitaṃ
sindūrapūraruciro balavīryasindhuḥ
buddhiprabhāvanidhiradbhutavaibhavaśrīḥ |
dīnārtidāvadahano varado vareṇyaḥ
saṅkaṣṭamocanavibhustanutāṃ śubhaṃ naḥ || 1||
sotsāhalaṅghitamahārṇavapauruṣaśrīḥ
laṅkāpurīpradahanaprathitaprabhāvaḥ |
ghorāhavapramathitāricayapravīraḥ
prābhañjanirjayati markaṭasārvabhaumaḥ || 2||
droṇācalānayanavarṇitabhavyabhūtiḥ
śrīrāmalakṣmaṇasahāyakacakravartī |
kāśīsthadakṣiṇavirājitasaudhamallaḥ
śrīmārutirvijayate bhagavān maheśaḥ || 3||
nūnaṃ smṛto'pi dadate bhajatāṃ kapīndraḥ
sampūjito diśati vāñchita-siddhivṛddhim |
saṃmodakapriya upaiti paraṃ praharṣaṃ
rāmāyaṇaśravaṇataḥ paṭhatāṃ śaraṇyaḥ || 4||
śrībhāratapravarayuddharathoddhataśrīḥ
pārthaikaketanakarālaviśālamūrtiḥ |
uccairghanāghanaghaṭāvikaṭāṭṭahāsaḥ
śrīkṛṣṇapakṣabharaṇaḥ śaraṇaṃ mamā'stu || 5||
jaṅghālajaṅgha upamātividūravego
muṣṭiprahāraparimūrcchitarākṣasendraḥ |
śrīrāmakīrtitaparākramaṇoddhavaśrīḥ
prākampanirvibhurudañcatu bhūtaye naḥ || 6||
sītārtidāraṇapaṭuḥ prabalaḥ pratāpī
śrīrāghavendraparirambhavaraprasādaḥ |
varṇīśvaraḥ savidhiśikṣitakālanemiḥ
pañcānano'panayatāṃ vipado'dhideśam || 7||
udyadbhānusahasrasannibhatanuḥ pītāmbarālaṅkṛtaḥ
projjvālānaladīpyamānanayano niṣpiṣṭarakṣogaṇaḥ |
saṃvartodyatavāridoddhataravaḥ proccairgadāvibhramaḥ
śrīmān mārutanaṃdanaḥ pratidinaṃ dhyeyo vipadbhañjanaḥ || 8||
rakṣaḥpiśācabhayanāśanamāmayādhi
proccairjvarāpaharaṇaṃ hananaṃ ripūṇām |
sampattiputrakaraṇaṃ vijayapradānaṃ
saṅkaṣṭamocanavibhoḥ stavanaṃ narāṇām || 9||
dāridryaduḥkhadahanaṃ śamanaṃ vivāde
kalyāṇasādhanamamaṅgalavāraṇāya |
dāmpatyadīrghasukhasarvamanorathāptiṃ
śrīmāruteḥ stavaśatāvṛtirātanoti || 10||
stotraṃ ya etadanuvāsaramāptakāmaḥ
śrīmārutiṃ samanucintya paṭhet sudhīraḥ |
tasmai prasādasumukho varavānarendraḥ
sākṣātkṛto bhavati śāśvatikaḥ sahāyaḥ || 11||
saṅkaṣṭamocanastotraṃ śaṅkarācāryabhikṣuṇā |
maheśvareṇa racitaṃ māruteścaraṇe'rpitam || 12||
|| iti kāśīpīṭhādhīśvara jagadguruśaṅkarācāryasvāmi śrīmaheśvarānandasarasvatīviracitaṃ śrīsaṅkaṣṭamocanastotraṃ sampūrṇam ||

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