Goddess Matangi

śrī mātaṅgī stotra puṣpāñjaliḥ (Sri Matangi Stotra Pushpanjali)

(Sri-matangi-stotra-pushpanjali in English (IAST))

Also known as asti nanavidhamsastam vastunavainikena vah

Thirty verses offered as a handful of flowers, and the first of them places the reader before it begins to praise: I take refuge in the jewel island in the middle of the ocean of nectar. From there the hymn works inward through the furniture of the Shrividya rather than through the story of the goddess. One verse asks the five flower-arrows to guard the heart and names them in order — the one that makes flee, the one that angers, the one that binds, the one that bewilders, and fifth the one that maddens. The last verse turns the title back on itself, calling the reciters a swarm of bees and what they bring a handful of flowers laid before the daughter of Matanga.

|| śrīmātaṅgīstotrapuṣpāñjaliḥ ||
asti nānāvidhaṃśastaṃ vastunāvaiṇikena vaḥ |
amṛtāmbunidhermadhye māṇikya dvīpamāśraye || 1||
sudhātaraṅga sañcārimārutasparśa śītalam |
kalpadrumakadambāli pārijātapaṭīrakaiḥ || 2||
nivaḍīkṛtamudyānaṃ niṣevenirbharotsavam |
tadalasalatonmīlatkusumāmoda meduram || 3||
jāgarti mānase matketaruṇaṃ nīpakānanam |
tasyāntarālataralāmuktamuktālatātateḥ || 4||
jyotirmayamahannaumimahitaṃ ratnamaṇḍapam |
sarasvatyā ca lakṣmyā ca pūrvādidvārabhūmiṣu || 5||
śaṅkhapadmanidhibhyāṃ ca satatādhyuṣi saṃstuve |
indrādīnlokapālān ca sāyudhān saparicchadān || 6||
maṇḍapasyabahirbhāge'pyaṣṭadikṣu kramasthitān |
athadhyāyāmi ratnārcirayatnākḷptadīpikām || 7||
haricandana saṃliptāṃ hāriṇīṃ maṇidīpikām |
tatratrikoṇa pañcārāṣṭāraṣoḍaśapatrakaiḥ || 8||
aṣṭāṣṭadhāravedāstraiścinmayaṃ vaktra mīmahe |
tasyamadhye kṛtānāsāma sādhāraṇa vaibhavām || 9||
indurekhāvatīmeṇī locanāṃ veṇiśālinīm |
hāsāṃśūllāsanāsīra nāsābharaṇa mauktikām || 10||
madaraktakapolaśrī magnamāṇikya darpaṇām |
ānandahāriṇīṃ tālidalatāṭaṅkadhāriṇīm || 11||
uccapīnakucāmacchahārāṃ tucchavalagnakām |
sukumārabhujāvallī vellatkaṅkaṇariṅkhaṇām || 12||
vāmastanamukhanyasta vīṇāvādavinodinīm |
valinābhinabhobhūta kāñcī hāriprabhāṃ śubhām || 13||
nyastaikacaraṇāṃ padme salīlāsālasānanām |
anardhyalāvaṇyavatīṃ mādinīṃ varṇa mātṛkām || 14||
anaṅga śaktijīvātu tadvikṣepa harāṅganām |
tryasreratiṃ prītimapi praṇamāmi manobhavām || 15||
drāvaṇaṃroṣaṇañcaiva bandhanaṃ mohanaṃ tathā |
astramunmādanākhyaṃ ca pañcamaṃ pātu me hṛdi || 16||
kāmarājaṃ ca kandarpaṃ manmathaṃ makaradhvajam |
manobhavaṃ ca pañcāra koṇāgrāvasthitaṃ stumaḥ || 17||
brāhmīṃ māheśvarīṃ caivakaumārīṃ vaiṣṇavīmapi |
vārāhīmapi māhendrīṃ ca cāmuṇḍāṃ caṇḍikāṃ numaḥ || 18||
lakṣmīḥ sarasvatīcaiva ratiḥ prītistathaiva ca |
kīrtiśśāntica puṣṭiścatuṣṭirityaṣṭakaṃ bhaje || 19||
vāmājyeṣṭhā ca raudrī ca śāntiḥ śraddhāsarasvatī |
kriyāśaktiśca lakṣmīśca sṛṣṭiścaivatu mohinī || 20||
tathāpurṇādine cāśvāsinīvālī tathaiva ca |
vidyunmālinyathasurā nandādyā nāgavaddhikā || 21||
itiṣoḍaśa śaktīnāṃ maṇḍalaṃ mānayāmahe |
asitāṅgo ruruścaṇḍa krodhanonmattabhairavāḥ || 22||
kapālībhīṣaṇaścaiva saṃhāraśceti pāntvamī |
mātaṅgīṃ siddhalakṣmīṃ ca mahāmātaṅgikāmapi || 23||
mahatīṃ siddhalakṣmīṃ ca turyāṃ ca tadupāsmahe |
gaṇanāthaśca durgā ca vaṭukaḥ kṣetrapo'vatu || 24||
śaktirūpāṇi cāṅgāni manasāṅgī karomyaham |
haṃsamūrtiḥ sa ca paraḥ prakāśānanda deśikaḥ || 25||
pūrṇonityaścavaruṇaḥ pātu māṃ pañcadeśikī |
śivetvāṃśeṣakādevi mātaṅgeśvari mānaye || 26||
īkṣe ca mānasematke kṣetrapālaṃ kṛpālayam |
śukinī śokanirhantrī savīṇāveṇi bhāsurā || 27||
surārcitā prasannā ca saṃvidbhavati śāmbhavī || 28||
madenaśoṇā padapāṅgakoṇā vibhaktavīṇā nigamapravīṇā |
eṇāṅka cūḍākaruṇādhurīṇā prīṇātu vaḥ poṣita puṣpavāṇā || 29||
saṃvinmayaṃrudra vasannatoṣinaḥ sādhakīndra bhṛṅgakulaḥ |
kamapuṣpāñjali reṣamatāṃ mātaṅgakanyakā yāḥ || 30||
|| iti śrīmātaṅgīstotrapuṣpāñjaliḥ samāptā ||

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