Goddess Lalita

śrī tripurātilaka stotram

(Sri Tripura Tilakam Stotram in English (IAST))

Also known as shri tripura tilakam stotram · shree tripura tilakam stotram · tripura tilakam stotram

Sixteen verses of description from the crown downward, set in a pavilion on the golden mountain where bees stagger among the flowers of the wish-trees. The detail is worked closely: her face reflected in the two jewelled mirrors of her cheeks, a nose like the pericarp seen inside a golden lotus petal, a girdle of gold set continuously with diamonds over fine silk. One epithet is a riddle in three steps, calling her the sister of the friend of the enemy of Karna — which is to say Krishna's sister, arrived at by way of Arjuna. The closing verse promises the reciter wealth and the world's regard first, and then, at the falling away of the body, the imperishable place.

|| śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ||
kalpaśākhigaṇasatprasūnamadhupānakelikutukabhramat
ṣaṭpadāravamanohare kanakabhūdhare lalitamaṇḍape |
atyudāramaṇipīṭhamadhyavinivāsinīmakhilamohinīṃ
bhaktiyogasulabhāṃ bhaje bhuvanamātaraṃ tripurasundarīm || 1 ||
ekakālasamudīyamānataruṇārkakoṭisadṛśasphura-
ddehakāntibharadhoraṇīmilanalohitīkṛtadigantarām |
vāgadhītavibhavāṃ vipadyabhayadāyinīmakhilamohinīṃ
āgamārthamaṇidīpikāmaniśamāśraye tripurasundarim || 2 ||
īṣadunmiṣadamartyaśākhikusumāvalīvimalatārakā-
vṛndasundarasudhāṃśukhaṇḍasubhagīkṛtātigurukaiśikām |
nīlakuñcitaghanālakāṃ niṭilabhuṣaṇāyatavilocanāṃ
nīlakaṇṭhasukṛtonnatiṃ satatamāśraye tripurasundarīm || 3 ||
lakṣmahīnavidhulakṣanirjitavicakṣaṇānanasaroruhāṃ
ikṣukārmukaśarāsanopamitacillikāyugamatallikām |
lakṣaye manasi santataṃ sakaladuṣkṛtakṣayavidhāyinīṃ
ukṣavāhanatapovibhūtimahadakṣarāṃ tripurasundarīm || 4 ||
hrīmadapramadakāmakautukakṛpādibhāvapiśunāyata-
snigdhamugdhaviśadatrivarṇavimalālasālasavilocanām |
sundarādharamaṇiprabhāmilitamandahāsanavacandrikāṃ
candraśekharakuṭumbinīmaniśamāśraye tripurasundarīm || 5 ||
hastamṛṣṭamaṇidarpaṇojjvalamanojñadaṇḍaphalakadvaye
bimbitānupamakuṇḍalastabakamaṇḍitānanasaroruhām |
svarṇapaṅkajadalāntarullasitakarṇikāsadṛśanāsikāṃ
karṇavairisakhasodarīmaniśamāśraye tripurasundarīm || 6 ||
sanmarandarasamādhurītulanakarmaṭhākṣarasamullasa-
nnarmapeśalavacovilāsaparibhūtanirmalasudhārasām |
kamravaktrapavanāgrahapracaladunmiṣadbhramaramaṇḍalāṃ
turmahe manasi śarmadāmaniśamambikāṃ tripurasundarīm || 7 ||
kamrakāntijitatārapūramaṇisūtramaṇḍalasamullasat
kaṇṭhakāṇḍakamanīyatāpahṛtakamburājaruciḍambarām |
kiñcidānatamanoharāṃ sayugacumbicārumaṇikarṇikāṃ
pañcabāṇaparipanthipuṇyalaharīṃ bhaje tripurasundarīm || 8 ||
hastapadmalasadikṣucāpasṛṇipāśapuṣpaviśikhojjvalāṃ
taptahemaracitābhirāmakaṭakāṅgulīyavalayādikām |
vṛttanistulanirantarālakaṭhinonnatastanatṛṇībhava-
nmattahastivaramastakāṃ manasi cintaye tripurasundarīm || 9 ||
lakṣagāḍhaparirambhatuṣṭaharahāsagaurataralollasat
cāruhāranikarābhirāmakucabhāratāntatanumadhyamām |
romarājilalitodarīmadhikanimnanābhimavalokaye
kāmarājaparadevatāmaniśamāśraye tripurasundarīm || 10 ||
hīramaṇḍalanirantarollasitajātarūpamayamekhalā
cārukāntiparirambhasundarasusūkṣmacīnavasanāñcitām |
māravīrarasacāturīdhṛtadhurīṇatuṅgajaghanasthalāṃ
dhāraye manasi santataṃ tridaśavanditāṃ tripurasundarīm || 11 ||
saptasaptakiraṇānabhijñaparivardhamānakadalītanu-
spardhimugdhamadhurorudaṇḍayugamanditendudharalocanām |
vṛttajānuyugavalgubhāvajitacittasambhavasamudgakāṃ
nityameva pariśīlaye manasi muktidāṃ tripurasundarīm || 12 ||
kaṇṭhakāṇḍarucikuṇḍatākaraṇalīlayā sakalakekināṃ
jaṅghayā tulitaketakīmukulasaṅghayā bhṛtamudañcitām |
ambujodaraviḍambicārupadapallavāṃ hṛdayadarpaṇe
bimbitāmiva vilokaye satatamambikāṃ tripurasundarīm || 13 ||
labhyamānakamalārcanapraṇatitatparairaniśamāsthayā
kalpakoṭiśatasañcitena sukṛtena kaiścana narottamaiḥ |
kalpaśākhigaṇakalpyamānakanakābhiṣekasubhagākṛtiṃ
kalpayāmi hṛdi citpayojanavaṣaṭpadīṃ tripurasundarīm || 14 ||
hrīmiti prathitamantramūrtiracalātmajetyudadhikanyake-
tyambujāsanakuṭumbinīti vividhopagītamahimodayām |
sevakābhimatakāmadhenumakhilāgamāvagamavaibhavāṃ
bhāvayāmi hṛdi bhāvitākhilacarācarāṃ tripurasundarīm || 15 ||
|| phalaśruti ||
stotrarājamamumāttamodamaharāgame prayatamānaso
kīrtayanniha narottamo vijitavittapo vipulasampadām |
prārthyamānaparirambhakelirabalājanairapagataiṣaṇo
gātramātrapatanāvadhāvamṛtamakṣaraṃ padamavāpnuyāt || 16 ||
|| iti tripurātilakastotraṃ sampūrṇam ||

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