Parvati

ಶ್ರೀ ಉಮಾಷ್ಟಕಮ್

(Sri Uma Ashtakam in Kannada)

Also known as shri uma ashtakam · shree uma ashtakam · uma ashtakam

Eight verses to Uma which begin as an ordinary meditation and then turn into a story. The first three describe her for worship: a chowrie in the right hand and a lotus in the left, red-clothed, an image of compassion; golden, two-armed, holding a blue lotus in the left hand; bright as a hundred suns, giver of enjoyment and of release, to be worshipped seated on her lion. Then the fourth verse changes tense and reports something that happened — to a devotee named Shivarama, in a dream, she showed her own form, and the form she showed was one that gives dispassion. The verse after it goes further and says that the goddess afterwards took the form of a crow, out of a wish to favour her devotees, which is the kind of local particular that rarely survives into a Sanskrit ashtaka.

॥ ಶ್ರೀ ಉಮಾಷ್ಟಕಮ್ ॥
ಚಾಮರಂ ದಕ್ಷಿಣೇ ಹಸ್ತೇ ಕಮಲಂ ಚೋತ್ತರೇ ತಥಾ ।
ರಕ್ತಾಮ್ಬರಾ ದಯಾಮೂರ್ತಿಃ ಪ್ರಸನ್ನೋಮಾಸ್ತು ಸರ್ವದಾ ॥ ೧ ॥
ಸುವರ್ಣಸದೃಶೀಂ ಗೌರೀಂ ಭುಜದ್ವಯ-ಸಮನ್ವಿತಾಮ್ ।
ನೀಲಪದ್ಮ ಹಿ ವಾಮೇನ ಪಾಣಿನಾ ಬಿಭ್ರತೀಂ ಸದಾ ॥ ೨ ॥
ದಿವಾಕರ-ಶತದ್ಯುತಿಂ ಜನನೀಂ ಭುಕ್ತಿಮುಕ್ತಿದಾಮ ।
ಸುಮುಖೀಂ ವರದಾಂ ದೇವೀ ಸಿಂಹಸ್ಥಾಂ ಪರಿಪೂಜಯೇತ್ ॥ ೩ ॥
ಭಕ್ತಾಯ ಶಿವರಾಮಾಯ ಸ್ನುಷಾ ಬ್ರಾಹಸ್ಯ ಸನ್ನಿಧೌ ।
ಸ್ವಪ್ನೇ ಸ್ವಂ ದರ್ಶಯಾಮಾಸ ರೂಪಂ ವೈರಾಗ್ಯದಂ ಶುಭಮ್ ॥ ೪ ॥
ಕಾಕರೂಪಾ ತತೋ ದೇವೀ ಭಕ್ತಾನುಗ್ರಹಕಾಮ್ಯಯಾ
ಓಙ್ಕಾರರೂಪಸಂಭೂತಾ ಪಞ್ಚಧಾಽಭಯದಾಯಿನೀ ॥ ೫ ॥
ಪ್ರಾದುರ್ಭೂತಾ ನದೀರೂಪಾ ಭಕ್ತಾನಾಂ ಫಲದಾಯಿನೀ ।
ಓಙ್ಕಾರರೂಪಸದೃಶೀ ಪಞ್ಚಧಾ ದಿವ್ಯ-ಕುಣ್ಡಜಾ ॥ ೬ ॥
ಭಕ್ತಃ ಪ್ರಭಾವಯುಕ್ತಾಯಾಃ ಸ್ವಯಮಾನನ್ದನಾಮಕಃ ।
ದೇವ್ಯಾ ಭವನಂ ನಿರ್ಮಾತುಂ ಶಿಲಾನ್ಯಾಸಂ ಚಕಾರ ಸಃ ॥ ೭ ॥
ಓಙ್ಕಾರರೂಪೇಣ ವಿರಾಜಮಾನಾ ಸಾ ಪೂಜಕಾನಾಂ ವರದಾಯಿನೀ ಚ ।
ರಕ್ತಾಮ್ಬರಾ ದಿವ್ಯವಪುಃ ಉಮಾಖ್ಯಾ ಸಾ ಬ್ರಹ್ಮರೂಪಾ ವಿಜಯಸ್ಯ ದಾತ್ರೀ ॥ ೮ ॥
॥ ಇತಿ ಶ್ರೀ ಉಮಾಷ್ಟಕಮ್ ಸಮ್ಪೂರ್ಣಮ್ ॥

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