Lord Surya

śrī bhāskara stotram

(Sri Bhaskara Stotram in English (IAST))

Also known as bhaskara stotram · surya bhaskara stotra · bhaskara stotram 24 verses

Twenty-four verses, every one of them closing on the same salutation — Bhāskarāya namo namaḥ — with a preface directing that they be spoken while prostrating full length. The names are grouped as they go. First the Sun as swan, as bird, as the one who rides the winged one and is drawn by green horses; then as the light of the three worlds and the single eye of every world; then the Trinity, Brahmā and Viṣṇu and Rudra, each saluted in turn. From the tenth verse onward the hymn becomes almost entirely medicine, calling him destroyer of every disease, sole physician for the sickness that is existence itself, destroyer of kuṣṭha, of poverty and of grievous wrong, gold-coloured, ender of the three torments — and last, the one who gathers up and carries off the fear that comes of ignorance.

|| maṃgalācaraṇa ||
atha paurāṇikaiḥ ślokai rāṣṭrai dvādaśābhiḥ śubhaiḥ |
praṇameddaṇḍavadbhānuṃ sāṣṭāṅgaṃ bhaktisamyutaḥ ||
haṃsāya bhuvanadhvāntadhvaṃsāyā'mitatejase |
haṃsavāhanarūpāya bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 1 ||
vedāṅgāya pataṅgāya vihaṅgārūḍhagāmine |
haridvarṇaturaṅgāya bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 2 ||
bhuvanatrayadīptāya bhuktimuktipradāya ca |
bhaktadāridryanāśāya bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 3 ||
lokālokaprakāśāya sarvalokaikacakṣuṣe |
lokottaracaritrāya bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 4 ||
saptalokaprakāśāya saptasaptirathāya ca |
saptadvīpaprakāśāya bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 5 ||
mārtāṇḍāya dyumaṇaye bhānave citrabhānave |
prabhākarāya mitrāya bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 6 ||
namaste kamalānātha namaste kamalapriya |
namaḥ kamalahastāya bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 7 ||
namaste brahmarūpāya namaste viṣṇurūpiṇe |
namaste rudrarūpāya bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 8 ||
satyajñānasvarūpāya sahasrakiraṇāya ca |
gīrvāṇabhītināśāya bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 9 ||
sarvaduḥkhopaśāntāya sarvapāpaharāya ca |
sarvavyādhivināśāya bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 10 ||
sahasrapatranetrāya sahasrākṣastutāya ca |
sahasranāmadheyāya bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 11 ||
nityāya niravadyāya nirmalajñānamūrtaye |
nigamārthaprakāśāya bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 12 ||
ādimadhyāntaśūnyāya vedavedāntavedine |
nādabindusvarūpāya bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 13 ||
nirmalajñānarūpāya ramyatejaḥ svarūpiṇe |
brahmatejaḥ svarūpāya bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 14 ||
nityajñānāya nityāya nirmalajñānamūrtaye |
nigamārthasvarūpāya bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 15 ||
kuṣṭhavyādhivināśāya duṣṭavyādhiharāya ca |
iṣṭārthadāyine tasmai bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 16 ||
bhavarogaikavaidyāya sarvarogāpahāriṇe |
ekanetrasvarūpāya bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 17 ||
dāridryadoṣanāśāya ghorapāpaharāya ca |
duṣṭaśikṣaṇadhuryāya bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 18 ||
homānuṣṭhānarūpeṇa kālamṛtyuharāya ca |
hiraṇyavarṇadehāya bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 19 ||
sarvasampatpradātre ca sarvaduḥkhavināśine |
sarvopadravanāśāya bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 20 ||
namo dharmanidhānāya namaḥ sukṛtasākṣiṇe |
namaḥ pratyakṣarūpāya bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 21 ||
sarvalokaikapūrṇāya kālakarmāghahāriṇe |
namaḥ puṇyasvarūpāya bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 22 ||
dvandvavyādhivināśāya sarvaduḥkhavināśine |
namastāpatrayaghnāya bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 23 ||
kālarūpāya kalyāṇamūrtaye kāraṇāya ca |
avidyābhayasaṃhartre bhāskarāya namo namaḥ || 24 ||
|| iti śrī bhāskara stotram sampūrṇam ||

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