Goddess Bhramaramba

śrībhramarāmbāṣṭakam

(Sri Bhramaramba Ashtakam in English (IAST))

Also known as shri bhramaramba ashtakam · shree bhramaramba ashtakam · bhramaramba ashtakam

Eight verses to Bhramaramba at Srisailam, and they are built as a head-to-foot description taken in strict order, one region of the body to a verse. The first stays at the feet, with the auspicious lines on the soles read as a parasol and a pitcher; the second takes the tortoise-shaped arch of the foot and the shanks, and calls them the quiver of Kama; the third goes to the knees, likened to the frontal lobes of an elephant, and to the thighs, and to the waist marked with the Shrichakra. Each verse ends the same way, naming her Bhramaramba of Srishaila, joined with Shiva, whose form is nothing but consciousness — so the final clause keeps returning the reader from the body being described to what it is being said to be.

śrīkāntastutasadguṇāñcitapadāṃ siddharṣisaṃsevitāṃ
bālendudyutipādapallavayutāṃ brahmāṇḍasañcāriṇīm |
cāruśrīkalaśātapatrakamahāsaubhāgyarekhāṅghrikāṃ
śrīśailabhramarāmbikāṃ śivayutāṃ cinmātramūrtiṃ bhaje || 1||
pādāmbhoruhamadhyamānamahiṣāmbhadrāyamānodayāṃ
kūrmākārapadoparisthalaruciṃ ghorāndhakārāpahām |
jaṃghānirmitamānmatheyaśaradhiṃ jambūphalaśrīmayīṃ
śrīśailabhramarāmbikāṃ śivayutāṃ cinmātramūrtiṃ bhaje || 2||
jānuśrījitakumbhikumbhavibhavāṃ caṇḍīṃ mahāyoginīṃ
rambhārambhakarādharoru yugalāṃ ratnāsanasthāyinīm |
śrīcakrāṅkitacakravibhramakaṭīṃ sindūravarṇojjvalāṃ
śrīśailabhramarāmbikāṃ śivayutāṃ cinmātramūrtiṃ bhaje || 3||
bharmānirmitadivyaratnadalanāṃ bhavyāmbarālaṅkṛtāṃ
saundaryodhakapūrṇanābhisarasīṃ śātollasanmadhyamām |
vakśojadvayaśātakumbhakalaśāṃ vaśyādi mantrātmikāṃ
śrīśailabhramarāmbikāṃ śivayutāṃ cinmātramūrtiṃ bhaje || 4||
kaṇṭhālambitatārahārapaṭalāṃ kaivalyasandāyinīṃ
śobhājālamṛṇālabāhuḍamaru sthūlābjacakrāṅkitām |
sadbimbādhararaktakundavadanāṃ svārasya sambhāṣiṇīṃ
śrīśailabhramarāmbikāṃ śivayutāṃ cinmātramūrtiṃ bhaje || 5||
nakṣatrādhikanāsikāmaṇidharāṃ navyāravindekṣaṇāṃ
muktālaṅkṛtakarṇabhūṣaṇayugāṃ mugdhapratāpānvitām |
ādarśāmalagaṇḍamaṇḍaladharāmānandapūrṇāntarāṃ
śrīśailabhramarāmbikāṃ śivayutāṃ cinmātramūrtiṃ bhaje || 6||
śrībālāṃ ca sugandhigandhatilakāṃ navyadvirepālakāṃ
sīmantāyutanaddamauktakasarāṃ śṛṅgāraraṅgatkacām |
gāṅgeyācitaratnakaṅkaṇajhaṇatkārāgrahastadvayāṃ
śrīśailabhramarāmbikāṃ śivayutāṃ cinmātramūrtiṃ bhaje || 7||
sarvāṅgābharaṇāṃ prasannavadanāṃ sarveśvarīṃ sarvadāṃ
sarvajñāṃ sajalābhravibhramatanuṃ bhaktapriyāmambikām |
maulisthāpitacandraśekharavarāṃ mālyārpitāṅgāṃ śivāṃ
śrīśailabhramarāmbikāṃ śivayutāṃ cinmātramūrtiṃ bhaje || 8||
kalyāṇīṃ kamalāsanasthacaraṇāṃ gaurīṃ ghanaśyāmalāṃ
graiveyākṛtahāranūpuradharāṃ kañjātaprāytekṣaṇām |
gaṅgātuṅgataraṅgabhāsavadanāṃ gandharvagānapriyāṃ
śrīśailabhramarāmbikāṃ śivayutāṃ cinmātramūrtiṃ bhaje || 9||
|| phalaśruti ||
śrīśailabhramarāmbikāṣṭakamidaṃ śreyaskaraṃ śāśvataṃ
caindraśrīkaramaprameyamatulaṃ harṣapradaṃ buddhidam |
prabhāte niyamātpaṭhedyadi pumān bhaktyantarātmaśuciḥ
śauklīṃśāntimavāpnuyātrijagatāṃ sarveśvaratvaṃ jayam || 10||
|| iti śrībhramarāmbāṣṭakaṃ sampūrṇam ||

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