Goddess Lalita

śrīlalitā catuḥṣaṣṭyupacārasaṅgrahaḥ

(Sri Lalita Chatushashtyupachara Sangraha in English (IAST))

Narayana

Also known as shri lalita chatushashtyupachara sangraha · shree lalita chatushashtyupachara sangraha · lalita chatushashtyupachara sangraha

The sixty-four services of the Shrividya worship, gathered into twenty-odd verses and offered in the mind. The sequence is followed exactly as a manual would give it and each verse names two or three of the acts in turn: seated on Kamesha's lap, receive the water for the feet; the ornaments are taken off and scented oil offered; then the jewelled earrings, the nose ornament, the pair of tatankas, and lac for the lips; then the rinsing of the mouth with clear Ganges water after she has been gladdened. The closing verse says plainly what the text is — that Narayana gathered the sixty-four into a little over twenty verses for the pleasure of the supreme Mother — and names him the son of Shri Purushottama, living at Mysore.

|| śrīlalitā catuḥṣaṣṭyupacārasaṅgrahaḥ ||
oṃ hṛnmadhyanilaye devi lalite paradevate |
catuṣṣaṣṭyupacārāṃste bhaktyā mātaḥ samarpaye || 1||
kāmeśotsaṅganilaye pādyaṃ gṛhṇīṣva sādaram |
bhūṣaṇāni samuttārya gandhatailaṃ ca te'rpaye || 2||
snānaśālāṃ praviśyā'tha tatrastha maṇipīṭhake |
upaviśya sukhena tvaṃ dehodvartanamācara || 3||
uṣṇodakena lalite snāpayāmyatha bhaktitaḥ |
abhiṣiñcāmi paścāttvāṃ sauvarṇakalaśodakaiḥ || 4||
dhautavastraprocchanaṃ cāraktakṣaumāmbaraṃ tathā |
kucottarīyamaruṇamarpayāmi maheśvari || 5||
tataḥ praviśya cālepamaṇṭapaṃ parameśvari |
upaviśya ca sauvarṇapīṭhe gandhānvilepaya || 6||
kālagarujadhūpaiśca dhūpaye keśapāśakam |
arpayāmi ca mālyādi sarvartukusumasrajaḥ || 7||
bhūṣāmaṇṭapamāviśya sthitvā sauvarṇapīṭhake |
māṇikyamukuṭaṃ mūrdhni dayayā sthāpayāmbike || 8||
śaratpārvaṇacandrasya śakalaṃ tatra śobhatām |
sindūreṇa ca sīmantamalaṅkuru dayānidhe || 9||
bhāle ca tilakaṃ nyasya netrayorañjanaṃ śive |
vālīyugal̤amapyamba bhaktyā te vinivedaye || 10||
maṇikuṇḍalamapyamba nāsābharaṇameva ca |
tāṭaṅkayugal̤aṃ devi yāvakañcādhare'rpaye || 11||
ādyabhūṣaṇasauvarṇacintākapadakāni ca |
mahāpadakamuktāvalyekāvalyādibhūṣaṇam || 12||
channavīraṃ gṛhāṇāmba keyūrayugalaṃ tathā |
valayāvalimaṅgulyābharaṇaṃ lalitāmbike || 13||
oḍyāṇamatha kaṭyante kaṭisūtrañca sundari |
saubhāgyābharaṇaṃ pādakaṭakaṃ nūpuradvayam || 14||
arpayāmi jaganmātaḥ pādayoścāṅgulīyakam |
pāśaṃ vāmordhvahaste te dakṣahaste tathāṅkuśam || 15||
anyasminvāmahaste ca tathā puṇḍrekṣucāpakam |
puṣpabāṇāṃśca dakṣādhaḥ pāṇau dhāraya sundari || 16||
arpayāmi ca māṇikyapāduke pādayoḥ śive |
ārohāvṛtidevībhiḥ cakraṃ paraśive mudā || 17||
samānaveṣabhūṣābhiḥ sākaṃ tripurasundari |
tatra kāmeśavāmāṅkaparyaṅkopaniveśinīm || 18||
amṛtāsavapānena muditāṃ tvāṃ sadā bhaje |
śuddhena gāṅgatoyena punarācamanaṃ kuru || 19||
karpūravīṭikāmāsye tato'mba viniveśaya |
ānandollāsahāsena vilasanmukhapaṅkajām || 20||
bhaktimatkalpalitikāṃ kṛtīsyāṃ tvāṃ smaran kadā |
maṅgalārārtikaṃ chatraṃ cāmaraṃ darpaṇaṃ tathā |
tāl̤avṛntaṃ gandhapuṣpadhūpadīpāṃśca te'rpaye || 21||
śrīkāmeśvari taptahāṭakakṛtaiḥ sthālīsahasrairbhṛtam
divyānnaṃ ghṛtasūpaśākabharitaṃ citrānnabhedairyutam |
dugdhānnaṃ madhuśarkarādadhiyutaṃ māṇikyapātrārpitam
māṣāpūpakapūrikādisahitaṃ naivedyamambā'rpaye || 22||
sāgraviṃśatipadyoktacatuṣṣaṣṭyupacārataḥ |
hṛnmadhyanilayā mātā lalitā parituṣyatu || 23||
śrīmukhākhyasya varṣasya tulāyāṃ śuklapakṣake |
caturthyāmaparāhṇe ca lalitārpitamānasaḥ || 24||
sāgraviṃśatipadyaistu catuṣṣaṣṭyupacārakān |
samagrahītparāmbāyāḥ prītyai nārāyaṇo mudā || 25||
nārāyaṇaḥ śrīpuruṣottamātmajo'likhanmahīṣūrapure vasankṛtī |
devīsaparyāmakhilābhilāṣadāṃ kāmeśavāmāṅkagatā prasīdatu ||
|| iti śrīlalitā catuḥṣaṣṭyupacārasaṅgrahaḥ sampūrṇaḥ ||

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