The Yakshini Goddesses

śrī yakṣiṇī kavaca (yoginīnāyikāstotram)

(Shri Yakshini Kavacham in English (IAST))

Also known as sri yakshini kavacham · shree yakshini kavacham · yakshini kavacham

An armour for the yakshini rites, spoken by Unmatta Bhairava, and it is unlike anything else here in that it has a blank in it. Its viniyoga names Garga as seer and Gayatri as metre, and then the deity is given as amuki yakshini — so-and-so the yakshini — with the practitioner expected to supply the name of the particular one he is working with. That single word tells you what class of text this is: not a hymn to a goddess but a template for a procedure, drawn from the Damara literature, which the opening verses say outright is where it was disclosed. It promises that the yakshini comes of her own accord to the one who merely knows the armour. It is filed here without a routing deity, since the yakshini-nayikas are not a Puranic goddess and no collection page claims them.

|| yoginīnāyikāstotram ||
|| śrī unmatta-bhairava uvāca||
śrṛṇu kalyāṇi ! mad-vākyaṃ, kavacaṃ deva-durlabhaṃ |
yakṣiṇī-nāyikānāṃ tu,saṃkṣepāt siddhi-dāyakaṃ ||
jñāna-mātreṇa devaśi ! siddhimāpnoti niścitaṃ |
yakṣiṇi svayamāyāti, kavaca-jñāna-mātrataḥ ||
sarvatra durlabhaṃ devi ! ḍāmareṣu prakāśitaṃ | paṭhanāt dhāraṇānmartyo,
yakṣiṇī-vaśamānayet ||
|| viniyogaḥ ||
oṃ asya śrīyakṣiṇī-kavacasya śrīgarga ṛṣiḥ, gāyatrī chandaḥ,
śrī amukī yakṣiṇī devatā, sākṣāt siddhi-samṛddhayarthe pāṭhe viniyogaḥ |
|| ṛṣyādinyāsaḥ ||
śrīgarga ṛṣaye namaḥ śirasi,
gāyatrī chandase namaḥ mukhe,
śrī amukī yakṣiṇī devatāyai namaḥ hṛdi,
sākṣāt siddhi-samṛddhayarthe pāṭhe
viniyogāya namaḥ sarvāṃge|
|| dhyānam ||
hṛdayāmbhoruhe dhyāye sundarīṃ navayauvanām |
kiṅkiṇījālamālāḍhyāṃ tripurāṃ padmalocanām |
varābhayakarāṃ dhanyāṃ yoginīṃ kāmacāriṇīm ||
|| mūla pāṭha ||
vande yoginī! yogasiddhidhanade! bandhūkapuṣpojjvale
nānālaṅkṛtivigrahe! suramaṇi śrīdevakanye priye! |
dāridryaṃ hana me sukhaṃ priyapadaṃ vāñchādisiddhiṃ dehi
rājyaṃ mitrakalatraputradhanade! mātaḥ! samādhehi me ||
tavāṅghrikamaladvayaṃ taruṇi devate! dāruṇaṃ
mahābhayasamākulaṃ hara bhajāmi bhūmaṇḍale |
kṛpāṃ kuru mamālaye saparivāradevaiḥ saha
sadā bhava hi bhāginī kṣama kulāpatāpaṃ mudā ||
tvamekā yoginī kanyā piṅgalā yuvatī ratiḥ |
gaurī vidyādharī śyāmā prasannā bhava sarvadā ||
tvaṃ sandhyā khecarī vidyā yakṣiṇī bhūtinīpriyā |
tvamekā pātu māṃ dhātrī svarṇapātrakarāmbujā ||
hiraṇyākṣī viśālākṣī capalā nāginī jayā |
prasannā bhava śabdākhyā kāminī kāmadāyinī ||
siddhidā kulamantrāṇāṃ ḍākinī khecarī bhava |
namāmi varade devi! yoginīgaṇasevite! ||
tavāṅghriyugalaṃ kānte! candrakāntisumālinī |
amale kamale devi! dāridryadoṣabhañjinī ||
vande tvāṃ manasā vācā prasannā bhava sundari! |
kalikālakṛte devi! khecarī śatanāyike ||
dhanasiddhiṃ dehi śīghraṃ samāgaccha gṛhe mama |
siddhidā vidhurāṇāṃ ca akālamṛtyunāśinī ||
daśavarṣasahasrāṇi sthirā bhava kule mama |
vākyasiddhipradā devī padmarāgasumālinī ||
sarvālaṅkārabhūṣāṅgī prasannā bhava sarvadā |
māyābījātmikā devī vadhūbījasamākule ||
siddhidravyaṃ sadā dehi kāntā bhava mamālaye |
vicitrāmbaraśobhāṅgī nānālaṅkāraveṣṭite ||
vimbāramaṇisūryābhe candrakāntiprabhojjvale |
smerānanābje kāmeśi! mamājñāpaya durlabham ||
kāmeśi! paramānandarājabhogapradāyinī |
siddhidā varadā mātā bhaginī ca bhavapriyā ||
tavājñākiṅkaro devi! pūjayāmyahamādarāt |
mamāgre saṃsthirā bhūtvā siddhidā bhava sarvadā ||
kaulinī gaganasthā tvaṃ mama pārśvacarī bhava |
śatavarṣasahasrāṇi māyekaṃ rakṣa sevakam ||
tvāmekaṃ jagatāṃ devi! siddhividyāṃ namāmyaham |
mamāṅge caiva pārśve tvaṃ kāminī bhava me sadā ||
daśavarṣasahasrāṇi siddhe! kamalalocanām |
vanitā bhava me nityaṃ nityaṃ dehaṃ kuru priye ||
|| phalaśrutiḥ ||
etat stotraṃ paṭhed vidvān dhyānābhyāsasamanvitama |
pakvānnaṃ nārikelaṃ vā khaṇḍamiśraṃ nivedayet |
siddhiṃ yacchanti bhūtinyaḥ stotrapūjāprabhāvataḥ ||
ityetat kavacaṃ devi ! mahā-yakṣiṇī-prītivaṃ |
asyāpi smaraṇādeva, rājatvaṃ labhate'cirāt ||
pañca-varṣa-sahasrāṇi, sthiro bhavati bhū-tale |
veda-jñānī sarva-śāstra-vettā bhavati niścitam |
araṇye siddhimāpnoti, mahā-kavaca-pāṭhataḥ |
yakṣiṇī kula-vidyā ca, samāyāti su-siddhadā ||
aṇimā-laghimā-prāptiḥ sukha-siddhi-phalaṃ labhet |
paṭhitvā dhārayitvā ca, nirjane'raṇyamantare ||
sthitvā japellakṣa-mantra miṣṭa-siddhiṃ labhenniśi |
bhāryā bhavati sā devī, mahā-kavaca-pāṭhataḥ ||
grahaṇādeva siddhiḥ syān, nātra kāryā vicāraṇā ||
|| iti vṛhad-bhūta-ḍāmare mahā-tantre śrīmadunmatta-bhairavī-bhairava-samvāde yakṣiṇī-nāyikā-kavacam ||

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