Goddess Lalita

śrīrājarājeśvarī cūrṇikā

(Sri Rajarajeshwari Churnika in English (IAST))

Vidyadhisha

Also known as shri rajarajeshwari churnika · shree rajarajeshwari churnika · rajarajeshwari churnika

A churnika — rhythmic Sanskrit prose rather than verse, built of long compounds that run on for lines together before the sentence closes. It is addressed to Kamalambika at Kamalapura, and the opening passage does what the form exists for: a golden mountain, a region incomparable and purifying and lovely, and the place filled without interruption by the clear sound of all the Vedas, Agamas, Shastras, Puranas and histories being recited aloud. The colophon names Vidyadhisha as its author. At the end it leaves prose for a single verse, to Hemambika seated on her lion, pearl and coral and gold at her ears, her face the colour of a red lotus, skilled at giving those who come to her what they ask.

|| śrīrājarājeśvarī cūrṇikā ||
śrīmat kamalāpura kanakadharādharavara nirupama parama pāvana
manohara prānte, sarasijabhavopama
viśvaṃbharāmaravargaganiggalatsasaṃbhrama guṃbhānuguṃbha nirantara
paṭhyamāna nikhila nigamāgama śāstra purāṇetihāsa kathānirmala
ninādasamākrānte || 1 ||
tatra pravarddhita
mandāra-mayūra-kharjura-kovidāra-jaṃbīra-jaṃbū-
niṃba-kadaṃboduṃbara-sāla-rasāla-tamāla-takkola-hintāla-
nāl̤ikera-kadalī-kramuka-mātuluṃga-nāraṃga-lavaṃga-bādarī-
caṃpakāśoka-punnāgāgarucandana-kuruvaka-maruvaka-veladrākṣā-
mallikā-mālatī-mādhavīlatā-śobhāyamāna-puṣpitaphalita-lalita
vividha vanataruvāṭikā madhyapradeśe || 2 ||
śukapikaśārikā nikaramayūra cakora cakravāka
bharadvāja-piṃgala-ṭiṭṭibha-garuḍha-vihagakulāyana kolāhalārava
paripūritāśe, tatra sudhārasopama-pānīyakāsāra sphuṭakalita
kumudendīvaraṣaṇḍa-sañcaranmarāla cakravāka kāraṇḍava pramukha
jalāṇḍajamaṇḍalī śobhāyamāne, nandanavana kṛtabahumāne || 3 ||
cārucāmīkara prākāragopura valayite, sulal̤ite,
susnigdhavirājita vajrastaṃbha sahasrapatmarāgapalaphalaka
jātarūpantratana nirmita prathamamaṇtapa-
dvītīyamaṇṭapāntarāl̤amaṇṭapa mūlamahāmaṇṭapasthāne,
śilpiśāstrapradhāne,
kalitavajravaiḍhūrya-māṇikya-gometaka-puṣparāga-
patmarāga-marakata-nīla-muktā-pravāl̤ākhya
navaratnatejovirājita bindutrikoṇa ṣaṭkoṇavasukoṇa śrīcakrasvarūpa
bhadrasiṃhāsanāsīne, devatāpradhāne || 4 ||
caraṇāṃgul̤inakhamukharucinicaya parābhratatārake, śrīmanmāṇikya
maṃjīramaṇḍita śrīpadāṃbujadvaye, mīnaketanamaṇi
tuṇīravilāsavijayijaṃghāyugal̤e, kanakaraṃbhāstaṃbhitorudvaye,
kandarpasvarṇasyandanapaṭutara śakaṭasannibhanitaṃba biṃbe || 5 ||
dinakarodayārdhavikasitāravindanābhipradeśe,
romarājīvirājitaval̤itraye, bhāsurakarabhodare,
jaṃbhāsuraripukuṃbhikuṃbhasamujjyaṃbhita śātakuṃbhakuṃbhāyamāna
saṃbhāvitapayodharadvaye, advaye, govita kuśakalaśa
kakṣadvayāruṇita sūrya paṭṭābhidhānamuktāmaṇiprota
kañcukavirājamāne, komal̤atarakalpavallīsamāna
pāśāṅkuśavarābhaya mudrāmudritatsantsaṇatkāra virājita
caturbhuje || 6 ||
trailokyajaitrayātrāgamanasuravarakara badhamaṃgal̤asūtra
trimekhāśobhitakaṇḍare, navapravālavallavapakvabiṃbaphalādhare,
nirantarakarpūratāṃbūlacyarvaṇāruṇitaradanapaṅktidvaye,
canpakaprasūnatilapuṣpasamāna
nāsāpuṭāgrodañcitamauktikābharaṇe,
karṇāvataṃsīkṛtendivaravirājitakapolabhāge,
aravindadal̤adīrghalocane || 7 ||
kusumaśarakoḍandalekhālaṅkāri manohāribhṛlatāyugal̤e,
sulal̤itāṣṭamīcandralāvaṇyalalāṭaphalake, kastūrikātilake,
harinmaṇidvirephāvali prakāśakeśapāśe, kanakāṃgadahārakeyūra
nānāvidhāyudha sthirībhṛtasaudāminī
tulitalal̤itantratanatantralate || 8 ||
kāśyapātri
bharadvājavyāsaparāśara-mārkaṇḍeya-viśvāmitra-
kaṇvakapilagargapulastyāgastyādi
sakalamunimanodhyabrahma tejomaye, cinmaye || 9 ||
sevārthāgatāṃga-vaṃga-kaliṃga-kāṃbhoja-sauvīra-saurāṣṭra-
mahāraṣṭra-māgadha-niṣadha-cola-cera-pāṇḍya-pāñcāla-draviḍa-
drāviḍa-ghoṭa-lāṭa-varāṭa-karṇāṭakāsḍra-bhoja-kuru-gāndhāra-
vidarbha-vijruṃbha-bāhlīka-barbara-keral̤a-kaikaya-kosala-śūrasena-
cyavana-ṭaṅkaṇa-koṅkaṇa-matsya-mādhva-saindhava-kāśī-bhadrāśī-
aindrāṃśī-uttaragiri-ṣaṭpañcāśat-deśādīśādi-gandharva
heṣāravahītkāravarathāṃgakraimkārabherī-jhaṃkāra madul̤a
dhvanihuṃkārayukta caturaṃgasameta jitasurarājādhirāja
puṃkhānupuṃkhagamanāgamana viśīrṇābharaṇādyayuta pāṭalī
vālukāyamāna prathama maṇṭapa sannidhāne || 10 ||
tattat pūjajāla
kriyamānārghya-pādyācamanīya-snāna-vastrābharaṇa-
jalagandha-puṣpākṣata-dhūpadīpa-naivedyatāmbūla-
pradakṣiṇanamaskāra-stotrasvānta
santoṣitavarapradānaśīle, śrībāle || 11 ||
rambhorvaśīmenakā-tilottamā-hariṇī-ghṛtācī
mañjūghoṣa-alaṃbusādyutāphsarastrī-"dhimindhimita"
citropamitra nartanollāsāvalokanadvaye, kṛttivāsaḥpriye,
baṇḍāsura-preritākhaṇḍadorduṇḍa rakṣomaṇḍalī khaṇḍane || 12 ||
nijarāṃgul̤īyakādi matsya-kūrma-varāhādi nārāyaṇa
daśāvatāre, himavatkulācalarājakanye, sarvalokamānye || 13 ||
śrī vidyādhīśaracita cūrṇikaśravaṇapaṭhanānandināṃ
samprārthitāyurārogyasaundarya vidyābuddhi putrapautra
kal̤atraiśvaryādi sakalasaukhyaprade ,
śrīmatkamalāmbike ! parāśakte !
namaste ! namaste ! namaste !
muktāvidruma hemakuṇḍaladharā siṃhādhirūḍhā śivā |
raktāṃbhojasamānakānti vadanā śrīmatkirīṭānvitā ||
muktāhemavicitrahārakaṭakaiḥ pītāṃbarā śaṅkarī |
bhaktābhīṣṭavarapradānacaturā māṃpātu hemāmbikā ||
|| śrī vidyādhīśa viracita śrī rājarājeśvarī cūrṇikā samāptā ||

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