Goddess Bala Tripurasundari

śrī bālā dalam (rakṣā maṃtra)

(Sri Bala Dalam in English (IAST))

Also known as bala dalam raksha mantra · bala parameshwari mantra · bala raksha dalam

A dalam — a single long mantra-sentence in prose rather than metrical verse, recited unbroken as a protection. It addresses Bala Parameshvari directly and without pause: you whose form is like a crore of suns and moons and fires and lightnings, every limb of you adorned with necklace and anklet and crown and earring and gold thread and strings of pearls, lover of the best of nectar, whose two lotus feet are praised by the crores of scriptures beginning with Rig, Yajus and Saman. The whole piece is built as one address of this kind, and its length is the point: it is meant to be said in one continuous run, so that the protection it asks for is not broken by a pause.

|| śrī bālā dalam ||
oṃ namo bhagavati bālāparameśvari raviśaśivahnividyutkoṭinibhākāre, hāranūpurakirīṭakuṇḍala hemasūtra muktādāmabhūṣita sarvagātre, pīyūṣavarapriye, ṛgyajussāmādi nigamakoṭibhiḥ saṃstūyamāna caraṇāravindadvayaśobhite, kinnara cāraṇa yakṣa vidyādhara sādhya kimpuruṣādi parivṛta mahendramukha tridaśasaṅghaiḥ saṃsevyamāne, ṣaṭkoṭyapsarasāṃ nṛttasantoṣite, aṇimādyaṣṭasiddhibhiḥ pūjitapādāmbujadvaye, khaḍga kapāla triśūla bhiṇḍipāla śakticakra kunta gadā parigha cāpa bāṇa pāśa vahni kṣepaṇikādi divyāyudhaiḥ śobhite, duṣṭadānava garvaśoṣiṇi, ekāhika dvyāhika cāturthika sāṃvatsarikādi sarvajvarabhayavicchedini, rāja corāgni jala viṣa bhūta kṛtya nānāvidha jvara sphoṭakādi nānārūpebhyo nānābhicārebhyo nānāpavādebhyaḥ parakarma mantra tantra śalya śūnya kṣudrādibhyaḥ saṃrakṣiṇi, sakala durita saṃhārakāriṇi, sarva maṅgala dayā saṃvarṣiṇi, lalitotsaṅganivāsini, mahāmāye, śrīparameśvari mamābhayaṃ dehi dehi dāpaya svāhā ||
|| iti śrī bālā dalam sampūrṇam ||

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