What is Sri Pratyangira Dandakam?

Read Sri Pratyangira Dandakam in English (IAST) script — full lyrics with English meaning and transliteration. A daṇḍaka, which is a metre rather than a genre — very long lines that run on without a break, so the text reads as a single sustained utterance and is meant to be spoken in one unbroken flow. Its opening prayer sets the goddess where this tradition places her: dwelling always in the cremation ground at Karavīra, mounted upon a corpse for the good of those who bow; white as the moon and as snow, five-faced, ten-armed, the primal one; and she is identified there with Siddhilakṣmī. The daṇḍaka itself then addresses her as mother of the world and describes the gods bowing at her feet, so that the pollen of the mandāra garlands on the crowns of Hari, Hara and Brahmā gathers on her lotus feet. It closes by asking her to drive off all the speaker's wrongdoing, and ends on the seed-syllables it opened with.

Which deity is Sri Pratyangira Dandakam dedicated to?

Sri Pratyangira Dandakam is a Sanskrit hymn dedicated to Goddess Devi.

Sri Pratyangira Dandakam in English (IAST) – Lyrics

|| śrī pratyaṅgirā daṇḍakam ||

oṃ namaḥ pratyaṅgirāyai ||

prārthanā

nivasati karavīre sarvadā yā śmaśāne
vinatajanahitāya pretarūḍhe maheśi |
himakara himaśubhrāṃ pañcavaktrāṃ tvamādyāṃ
diśatu daśabhujāyā sā śriyaṃ siddhilakṣmīḥ ||

daṇḍakam

aiṃ khphrem | jaya jaya jagadamba praṇata hariharahiraṇyagarbha pramukha suramukuṭa mandāramālā parimaladatipaṭala vācāla caraṇa puṇḍarīkeṣu puṇḍarīkākṣa pramukha kara kambu vimala mandākinī śaradendu kundāravindasandoha sundaraśarīraprabhe | jaya jaya mahākāli kālanāśini samayacakre melāpakāśini siddhigaṇayoginī vīravidyādharī jananikara munikurumbinī tumbinī kadamba kinnaravārādhyamāne karālo vidhāne siddhilakṣmīprade virūpākṣacakṣusaṃvāse ānandarasadāyike tribhuvananāyike sphuradanarghamaṇi muktabalīkalāpamadhyasthitā cakṣutravābharaṇa jhaṇajhaṇāyamāna taruvallarīvahala prabhā paṭala pālīkṛta sakala diṅmaṇḍala gaṇḍasthalollasita raviśaśikuṇḍale pīta kaṭhina kuca kalaśa yugalāntanuvālakulita nara muṇḍāvalī maṇḍite, caṇḍi rudhirapānapramatte pretakalottāla vetāla karatālikā tāḍana tāṇḍava pramukhā naṭa ḍākinī cakra caṅkramaṇa cakitavitāya camatkāra visphurita piśāca pralaya citkāra dhvani mukharakanavīra śmaśānādhinivāsinī rudraskandhādhiruḍhe, ṣaḍādhāramadhyāravinda mandirodarāṅkuconnata prasūtajagāmamanāyamānakula kuṇḍalinī śaktiprabhā pradīpikā sakhamanāsavalerigamadākāśa śaśimaṇḍalāmṛtadhārā payonidhigamana mānasairudita hasairakhila sādhakairavibhāvyate mātṛkācakra sambhāvite mṛgāṅka kuṅkumāguru mṛgamadāṅgarāga parimalavāsitāvāsa maṇimaṇḍape khaṇḍendu maṇḍitorujaṭākalāpakalita karavīrodāra karahāra kanaka ketakī navamālikā tālikā madayantikā mādhavī vividha gandhabandhura gandhavāha vahadaruṇasavanācale dhyānākāra cakita trinayanācale oṃ jaya jaya jagajjanani jaya jaya || 1 ||

khphreṃ aim | jaya jaya navākṣarī navatyadhikaśatākṣara mantramālādhidaivate kāli kātyāyani kapālini nararudhiravaśāpiśita paripūrṇa kapāla karavāla triśūla khaṭvāṅga ghaṇṭā muṇḍa pāśāṅkuśa varā'bhaya śobhitakare sukare baddhavīrāsane siddheśvari siddhavidyādharoragendrakā dhyāyamānāṅghri layeśāmbhavāveśa vibhave devadevi mahādevi anākhye umākhye sadāpūrṇimārakhye lasattārakākhye akārākṣaradosphuradambarākāre mahāvyomni vyomavāmeśvarī kuṇḍike khecarī gocarī dikcari śāmbarī śakti cakra kriyecchājñānarupa guṇātīta nityāmṛte nityabhogaprade sandhyāvasānasamaye lāsyavilāse ṭaṭamahānaṭa jaṭājūṭāpagāri rasadalaṅkāra sakalakāvyakalākalāpa vahaladhī triguṇa prabandha vividhabandhu sundara kavitā siddhide ṛddhide buddhide jñānade mānade śārade ṣoḍaśākṣarādhirūḍha sakalasiddhi caturvargaphalavidhāyini praṇatajanahitakāriṇi
jaya jaya jagadamba pratyaṅgire khphreṃ aiṃ om || 2 ||

phalaśruti

mama sakaladuritānapanuda apanuda jaya jaya pratyaṅgire jaya jaya jaya he aiṃ oṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ klīṃ khphreṃ oṃ || 3 ||

iti śrī pratyaṅgirā daṇḍakam sampūrṇam ||

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