Goddess Varahi

śrī vārāhī devī stavam

(Sri Varahi Devi Stavam in English (IAST))

Also known as shri varahi devi stavam · shree varahi devi stavam · varahi devi stavam

A hymn whose meditation is written in seed-syllables rather than in pictures: she is described as the goddess made of the bhū-bīja shining between two aiṅkāras, before a single limb is mentioned. What follows names her by function in a way the other Vārāhī texts do not, as the one who paralyses and the one who makes the enemy yawn — stambhinī and jṛmbhiṇī, two of the six ritual acts — and then returns to the familiar image of the boar-faced goddess at the centre of her chariot, holding plough and pestle. Its third verse gives her the office that the Svapna Vārāhī text builds a whole hymn on: she is the lady of dreams, who makes the meaning of a dream understood. The composition alternates between the seed-syllable register and the plain one throughout, which is what distinguishes it from the ordinary stava.

|| śrī vārāhī devī stavam ||
|| dhyānam ||
aiṅkāradvayamadhyasaṃsthita lasadbhūbījavarṇātmikāṃ
duṣṭārātijanākṣi vaktrakarapadastambhinīṃ jṛmbhiṇīm |
lokān mohayantīṃ dṛśā ca mahāsādaṃṣṭrākarālākṛtiṃ
vārtālīṃ praṇato'smi santatamahaṃ ghoṇiṃ rathopasthitām ||
|| stavam ||
śrīkirirathamadhyasthāṃ potrimukhīṃ cidghanaikasadrūpām |
halamusalāyudhahastāṃ naumi śrīdaṇḍanāyikāmambām || 1 ||
vāgbhavabhūvāgīśī bījatrayaṭhārṇavaiśca samyuktām |
kavacāstrānalajāyāyatarūpāṃ naumi śuddhavārāhīm || 2 ||
svapnaphalabodhayitrīṃ svapneśīṃ sarvaduḥkhavinihantrīm |
natajana śubhakāriṇīṃ śrīkirivadanāṃ naumi saccidānandām || 3 ||
pañcadaśavarṇavihitāṃ pañcamyambāṃ sadā kṛpālambām |
añcitamaṇimayabhūṣāṃ cintitaphaladāṃ namāmi vārāhīm || 4 ||
vighnāpannirmūlana vidyeśīṃ sarvaduḥkhavinihantrīm |
sakalajagatsaṃstambhanacaturāṃ śrīstambhinīṃ kalaye || 5 ||
daśavarṇarūpamanuvara viśadāṃ turagādhirājasaṃrūḍhām |
śubhadāṃ divyajagattrayavāsinīṃ sukhadāyinīṃ sadā kalaye || 6 ||
uddhatrīkṣmāṃ jalanidhi magnāṃ daṃṣṭrāgralagnabhūgolām |
bhaktanadimodamānāṃ unmattākāra bhairavīṃ vande || 7 ||
saptadaśākṣararūpāṃ saptodadhipīṭhamadhyagāṃ divyām |
bhaktārtināśanipuṇāṃ bhavabhayavidhvaṃsinīṃ parāṃ vande || 8 ||
nīlaturagādhirūḍhāṃ nīlāñcita vastrabhūṣaṇopetām |
nīlābhāṃ sarvatiraskariṇīṃ sambhāvaye mahāmāyām || 9 ||
salasaṅkhyamantrarūpāṃ vilasadbhūṣāṃ vicitravastrāḍhyām |
sulalitatanvīṃ nīlāṃ kalaye paśuvarga mohinīṃ devīm || 10 ||
vairikṛtasakalabhīkara kṛtyāvidhvaṃsinīṃ karālāsyām |
śatrugaṇabhīmarūpāṃ dhyāye tvāṃ śrīkirātavārāhīm || 11 ||
catvāriṃśadvarṇakamanurūpāṃ sūryakoṭisaṅkāśām |
devīṃ siṃhaturaṅgāṃ vividhāyudhadhāriṇīṃ kīṭīṃ naumi || 12 ||
dhūmākāravikārāṃ dhūmānalasannibhāṃ sadā mattām |
paripanthiyūthahantrīṃ vande nityaṃ ca dhūmravārāhīm || 13 ||
varṇacaturviṃśatikāṃ mantreśīṃ samadamahiṣapṛṣṭhasthām |
ugrāṃ vinīladehāṃ dhyāye kirivaktra devatāṃ nityam || 14 ||
bindugaṇatātmakoṇāṃ gajadalāvṛttatrayātmikāṃ divyām |
sadanatrayasaṃśobhita cakrasthāṃ naumi siddhavārāhīm || 15 ||
|| phalaśruti ||
vārāhī stotrametadyaḥ prapaṭhedbhaktisamyutaḥ |
sa vai prāpnoti satataṃ sarvasaukhyāspadaṃ padam || 16 ||
|| iti śrī vārāhī devī stavam sampūrṇam ||

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