Lord Dattatreya

śrī dattātreya hṛdayarājaḥ

(Sri Dattatreya Hrudaya Raja (Kalakarshana) in English (IAST))

Also known as shri dattatreya hrudaya raja · dattatreya hrudaya raja · dattatreya hridaya raja

A second and quite separate text called the heart of Dattātreya, which shares almost nothing with the first beyond the name and the seed-syllables. Its viniyoga names Kālākarṣaṇa as the seer and jagatī as the metre, where the other names Īśvara and anuṣṭubh. The body of it is thirteen verses that each close on the same line — the one whose form is the three gods, lord Dattātreya, to the guru salutation — and each fills its four lines with names drawn deliberately from all three: Viśveśvara and Nīlakaṇṭha beside Hari and Vāsudeva, Gaṅgādhara beside Śrīpati, the ash and the skin garment beside the yellow silk. Its closing verses set out a regimen rather than a promise, prescribing the twenty-four verses told twelve times over and a preliminary observance counted by the number of the sun, after which the reciter is said to obtain sight of him.

|| śrī dattātreya hṛdayam 2 ||
|| viniyogaḥ ||
asya śrīdattātreya hṛdayarāja mahāmantrasya kālākarṣaṇa ṛṣiḥ jagatīcchandaḥ śrīdattātreyo devatā āṃ bījaṃ hrīṃ śaktiḥ kroṃ kīlakaṃ śrīdattātreya prasādasiddhyarthe jape viniyogaḥ ||
|| nyāsaḥ ||
drāmityādi ṣaḍaṅganyāsaḥ ||
|| stotram ||
namo namaḥ śrīmunivanditāya
namo namaḥ śrīgururūpakāya |
namo namaḥ śrībhavaharaṇāya
namo namaḥ śrīmanutalpakāya || 1 ||
viśveśvaro nīlakaṇṭho mahādevo maheśvaraḥ
hariḥ kṛṣṇo vāsudevo mādhavo madhusūdanaḥ |
janakaśca śatānando vedavedyo pitāmahaḥ
trimūrtirūpo bhagavān dattātreyo guruṃ namaḥ || 2 ||
pañcānano mahādevo gaurīmānasabhāskaraḥ
brahmavādo sukhāsīno suralokavarapradaḥ |
vedānano vedarūpo muktimārgaprakāśakaḥ
trimūrtirūpo bhagavān dattātreyo guruṃ namaḥ || 3 ||
karpūragauravarṇāṅgo śailajāmanorañjakaḥ
śyāmābhaḥ śrīnivāso yo bhaktavāñchitadāyakaḥ |
pītaratnāṅgavarṇāṅgo gāyatryātmapralāpakaḥ
trimūrtirūpo bhagavān dattātreyo guruṃ namaḥ || 4 ||
tripañcanayano rudro yo mahābhairavāntakaḥ
dvidalākṣo mahākāyo keśavo mādhavo hariḥ |
aṣṭākṣo vedasāraṅgo śrīsuto yajñakāraṇaḥ
trimūrtirūpo bhagavān dattātreyo guruṃ namaḥ || 5 ||
digbāhumaṇḍitadevo mṛḍānīprāṇavallabhaḥ
sumūrtikṛtkārtikeyo hṛṣīkeśaḥ sureśvaraḥ |
vasuḥ pāṇistapaḥ śānto brahmaṇyo makhabhūṣaṇaḥ
trimūrtirūpo bhagavān dattātreyo guruṃ namaḥ || 6 ||
gaṅgādharo maheśāno śrīpatirbhavabhañjakaḥ
vāgdevaḥ kāmaśānto yo sāvitrī vāgvilāsakaḥ |
brahmarūpo viṣṇuśaktirviśveśo tripurāntakaḥ
trimūrtirūpo bhagavān dattātreyo guruṃ namaḥ || 7 ||
nāgapriyo bhūtanātho jagatsaṃhārakārakaḥ
bhuvaneśo bhayatrātā mādhavo bhūtapālakaḥ |
vidhātā rajarūpaśca brāhmaṇo'jakārakaḥ
trimūrtirūpo bhagavān dattātreyo guruṃ namaḥ || 8 ||
kṛddhakṝrapiśāceśo śāmbhavo śuddhamānasaḥ
śānto dānto mahādhīro govindastattvasāgaraḥ |
ardhūsardhūmahābhāgo rajorūpo maharṣikaḥ
trimūrtirūpo bhagavān dattātreyo guruṃ namaḥ || 9 ||
carmāmbaradharo devo līlātāṇḍavakauśalaḥ
pītāmbaraparīdhāno māyācakrāntarātmavit |
karmāṅgavastrabhūṣo yo jagatkāraṇakāryadhṛt
trimūrtirūpo bhagavān dattātreyo guruṃ namaḥ || 10 ||
kapālamālāṃśudharo bhasmabhūṣo śubhapradaḥ
śrīvatsaḥ prītikaro yogavānyo puruṣottamaḥ |
yajñasūtrottarībhūṣo vedamārgaprabhākaraḥ
trimūrtirūpo bhagavān dattātreyo guruṃ namaḥ || 11 ||
triśūlapāṇiḥ sarvajño jñānendriyapriyaṅkaraḥ
gadāpāṇiścārvaṅgo viśvatrātā jagatpatiḥ |
kamaṇḍaludharo devo vidhātā vighnanāśanaḥ
trimūrtirūpo bhagavān dattātreyo guruṃ namaḥ || 12 ||
śilānasūnuvaradaścaṇḍāṃśuścaṇḍavikramaḥ
aruṇo virajo dhātā bhaktimānasabodhakaḥ |
padmāsano padmavettā haṃsamānasapañjaraḥ
trimūrtirūpo bhagavān dattātreyo guruṃ namaḥ || 13 ||
|| phalaśruti ||
ityevama dattahṛdayaṃ ekabhaktyā paṭhennaraḥ |
bhuktimuktipradaṃ loke dattasāyujyamāpnuyāt || 14 ||
dhanakāme putrakāme nānākāme ahetuke |
paṭhanātsādhakebhyaśca sarvakāmaphalapradam || 15 ||
mantramātraṃ samuccārya daśadoṣanivārakaṃ
siddhamantro bhavatyevaṃ nātra kāryā vicāraṇā || 16 ||
idaṃ hṛdayamāhātmyaṃ triṣu lokeṣu durlabham |
sākṣātkārapradaṃ stotraṃ satyaṃ satyaṃ vadāmyaham || 17 ||
caturviṃśatikān ślokān japtvā dvādaśasaṅkhyayā |
tasya dvādaśabhāgena japtvā caikapuraścaram || 18 ||
sūryasaṅkhyapuraścaryāt kṛto vai sādhakottamaḥ |
tasya pāṭhaprabhāvena dattadarśanamāpnuyāt || 19 ||
pratyekaṃ ślokaśloke kṛtvā pāṭhaṃ vicakṣaṇaḥ |
tena sānnidhyatā śīghraṃ dattātreyasya jāyate || 20 ||
|| iti śrī dattātreya hṛdayam sampūrṇam ||

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