Goddess Kali

śrīkālīrahasye brahmakṛtaṃ śrīkālīstutiḥ

(Sri Kali Stuti in English (IAST))

Also known as shri kali stuti · shree kali stuti · kali stuti

Fifteen verses ascribed to Brahma in the Kali Rahasya, and every line of them ends in the same case and the same sound, so that the whole reads as one long chiming sentence rather than as fifteen separate ones. It opens by naming her Krishna's own form and the bearer of the dark slender body, then the whole ocean of principles and the shoreless deep. What follows sets bright against dark and does not resolve them: she is the radiance of Shiva and flashes with the moon at her crest, a sun to the jewel on her brow and a sun that lights the world — and she is the dweller in the cremation ground, the night of the darkness of tamas, the lover of Shiva's own nature. Those who recite it, the last verse says, do not fall again into the pit of delusion.

|| śrī gaṇeśāya namaḥ ||
|| śrī kālī stutiḥ (brahma kṛtam) ||
|| śrīkālīrahasye ||
|| śrībrahmā uvāca||
namāmi kṛṣṇarūpiṇīṃ kṛṣṇāṅgayaṣṭidhāriṇīm |
samagratattvasāgaraṃ apārapāragahvarām || 1 ||
śivāprabhāṃ samujjvalāṃ sphuracchaśāṅkaśekharām |
lalāṭaratnabhāskarāṃ jagatpradīptibhāskarām || 2 ||
mahendrakaśyapārcitāṃ sanatkumārasaṃstutām |
surāsurendravanditāṃ yathārthanirmalādbhutām || 3 ||
atarkyarocirūrjitāṃ vikāradoṣavarjitām |
mumukṣubhirvicintitāṃ viśeṣatattvasūcitām || 4 ||
mṛtāsthinirmitasrajāṃ mṛgendravāhanāgrajām |
suśuddhatattvatoṣaṇāṃ trivedapārabhūṣaṇām || 5 ||
bhujaṅgahārahāriṇīṃ kapālakhaṇḍadhāriṇīm |
sudhārmikaupakāriṇīṃ surendravairighātinīm || 6 ||
kuṭhārapāśacāpinīṃ kṛtāntakāmabhedinīm |
śubhāṃ kapālamālinīṃ suvarṇakalpaśākhinīm || 7 ||
śmaśānabhūmivāsinīṃ dvijendramaulibhāvinīm |
tamo'ndhakārayāminīṃ śivasvabhāvakāminīm || 8 ||
sahasrasūryarājikāṃ dhanañjayograkārikām |
suśuddhakālakandalāṃ subhṛṅgabṛndamañjulām || 9 ||
prajāyinīṃ prajāvatīṃ namāmi mātaraṃ satīm |
svakarmakāraṇe gatiṃ harapriyāṃ ca pārvatīm || 10 ||
anantaśaktikāntidāṃ yaśo'rthabhuktimuktidām |
punaḥ punarjagaddhitāṃ namāmyahaṃ surārcitām || 11 ||
|| prārthanā ||
jayeśvari trilocane prasīda devi pāhi mām |
jayanti te stuvanti ye śubhaṃ labhantyamokṣataḥ || 12 ||
sadaiva te hatadviṣaḥ paraṃ bhavanti sajjuṣaḥ |
jarāḥ pare śive'dhunā prasādhi māṃ karomi kim || 13 ||
atīva mohitātmano vṛthā viceṣṭitasya me |
kuru prasāditaṃ mano yathāsmi janmabhañjanaḥ || 14 ||
|| phalaśruti ||
tathā bhavantu tāvakā yathaiva ghoṣitālakāḥ |
imāṃ stutiṃ mameritāṃ paṭhanti kālisādhakāḥ |
na te punaḥ sudustare patanti mohagahvare || 15 ||
|| iti śrīkālīrahasye brahmakṛtaṃ śrīkālīstutiḥ sampūrṇā ||

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