Ramanuja

śrī yatirāja stotram (raṅgārya kṛta)

(Sri Yatiraja Stotram Rangarya Krta in English (IAST))

Also known as yatiraja stotram by rangarya · shri yatiraja stotram rangarya krta · shree yatiraja stotram rangarya krta

A hymn to Ramanuja by Rangarya, and its refrain is a triple naming rather than a single one — I worship the author of the commentary, I worship Lakshmanarya, I worship Ramanujarya of Salasangrama — so that the scholar, the man with his given name, and the figure attached to a place are all saluted in the same breath. The second verse widens further and becomes a list of salutations to teachers instead of to him: to the makers of the eternal divine Prabandham, to the sages who know the Pancharatra, to my own teachers, to their teachers, and to the teachers of the fivefold consecration. That last is the Srivaishnava initiation, so what the hymn is really honouring is the unbroken line of transmission with Ramanuja standing in the middle of it.

dhanaṃ yasya sadbrahma vidyānidānaṃ
budhānandarūpaṃ svarūpaṃ dadhānam |
paraprāpakāṅghridvayīsannidhānaṃ
vidhānaṃ vibhūtidvayeśābhidhānam |
bhaje bhāṣyakāraṃ bhaje lakṣmaṇāryaṃ
bhaje sālasaṅgrāmarāmānujāryam || 1||
namonityadivyaprabandhādikṛdbhyo
namaḥ pañcarātrādividbhyo munibhyaḥ |
namomadgurubhyo namastadgurubhyo
namaḥ pañcasaṃskāravidyāgurubhyaḥ || 2||
namo veṅkaṭādhīśasatpādareṇu-
stavaiḥ padyavidyāsahasraprayoktre |
mumukṣuñjanānnityakalpānvidhātre
mahāhobalācāryavaryāya pitre || 3||
ahirbudhnyaityādi yasminpramāṇaṃ
kalau kaścidityādiśuddhaṃ purāṇam |
mṛṣā ghoṣavādādi yenādharīṇaṃ
dhurīṇaṃ gurūṇāṃ pumāṃsaṃ purāṇam || 4||
yatīśāśritānāṃ kaniṣṭho bhaveyaṃ
sadā pañcamopāyaniṣṭho bhaveyam |
guroraṅghrirūpo bhaveyaṃ bhaveyaṃ
harerantaraṅgo bhaveyaṃ bhaveyam || 5||
anantohi bhūtvā mahābhāṣyakāraḥ
prabuddhaṃ cakāra trayīśabdajālam |
punasso'yamāgatya madbhāṣyakāraḥ
prabuddhaṃ cakāra śruterarthamūlam || 6||
mṛṣāvādidurvādapaṅke nimagnaṃ
guṇābhāvaheyasvarūpa...
punasso'yamāgatya madbhāṣyakāraḥ
prabuddhaṃ cakāra śruterarthamūlam || 6||
mṛṣāvādidurvādapaṅke nimagnaṃ
guṇābhāvaheyasvarūpādibhagnam |
paraṃ brahma yasya prabhāveṇa lagnaṃ
babhau dṛṣṭakalyāṇalakṣmīvalagnam || 7||
sadaikāntibhirdādaśodyatsahastrai-
ścatussaptatisvīyasiṃhāsanasthaiḥ |
tathāviṣṇubhaktairanantairupetaṃ
mahāraṅgarājāṅgarakṣāvinītam || 8||
na yāgo na yogo na vā tantramantrau
na hi jñānadāne na bhaktiprapattī |
tathāpyātmalabdhau na sandehagandho
balamme mahadbhāṣyakārānubandhaḥ || 9||
kṛtaṃ vā tapo nyadbalaṃvāgurūṇāṃ
śriyaḥśrīpateḥ kinnu sākṣādapekṣā |
ghṛṇābhāṣyakārasya niṣkāraṇā vā
mamaiṣā mukheghoṣate kāpi bhāṣā || 10||
paravyūhalīlāntarārcāviśeṣai-
raśeṣairharirvyāsamanvādiveṣaiḥ |
samuddhartumetanbhavābdheraśakta-
statobhūdyatiḥ śeṣabhāvānuṣaktaḥ || 11||
bhavābdhau nimagnāntsamuddhartukāmaḥ
parolakṣmaṇāryādgururneti neti |
sanissāṇabherīmahākāhalībhi-
rbhaṭairghaṣyatāṃ ghuṣyatāṃ diktaṭeṣu || 12||
satī brahmavidyā sutaḥ śailadīpo
guruḥ pārijātaḥ śritaṃ bhāgyaratnam |
tataḥ kālameghe svayaṃ bhogirāje
prasanne tadasminnalabhyaṃ kuto naḥ || 13||
tṛṇīkṛtyavairiñjirudrapratiṣṭhāṃ
yadīyāṅghripāthojakaiṅkaryaniṣṭhām |
ihāmutra ca prābhavāḥ prakramante-
tadanyaṃ guruṃ mūḍhabhāvā bhajante || 14||
yatīndraṃ vinindatyasadgranthakanthā-
dharāviśvamithyānusandhānagandhāḥ |
jagaccakṣuṣaṃ pratnamekaṃ śatāndhā-
napaśyantyaho karmabandhādivāndhāḥ || 15||
na tarke'pyudarko na śabde ca śakto
na kasyāvatāro na tantrasvatantraḥ |
kathaṃ kalpayetsarvabhāṣāsu gāthāḥ
kimācāryamāhātmyabhītassavedhāḥ || 16||
ahaṃ tūrdhvabāhurbhaṇāmi śṛṇudhvaṃ
śaṭhārātināthādivācaḥ smaradhvam |
yatīndrāṅghrikaiṅkaryamātre yatadhvaṃ
manudhvaṃ muradhvaṃsiloke ramadhvam || 17||
sudhāpuṇḍrarekhā virājallalāṭaṃ
sudhāṃśupratīkāśakāśatkirīṭam |
samudghāṭya vaikuṇṭhakakṣyākavāṭaṃ
suparṇādisaṃsevyamānandakūṭam || 18||
uṣassāndhyarāgāruṇanmegharekhā-
kacākarṣikāṣāyakhaṇḍottarīyam |
bṛhannāradīyoktarūpaṃ turīyaṃ
paraṃ vastu paśyāmi lakṣmīdharīyam || 19||
alaṃ deśikairanyacittaiḥ pramattai-
ralaṃsthāṇukalpairalakṣmīśatalyaiḥ |
apadmākṣahārairacakrāṅkadhārai-
rasadbhāṣyakārairaśeṣāvatāraiḥ || 20||
praphullānanetraṃ prabhāśobhigātraṃ
prakṛtyā pavitraṃ prabhāvairvicitram |
harerātapatraṃ satāṃ jaitapatraṃ
suparṇasyamitraṃ sumitrāsuputram || 21||
aho śāṅkarāḥ kiṅkaratvaṃ prayātāḥ
vare bhāskarāstaskarākārabhājaḥ |
tato yādavāḥ pādavāriprapūtā-
stathaivāgatāssaugatā bhāṭṭasāṅkhyāḥ || 22||
śaṭhaḥ kāpilaḥ ko'pi lakṣyo na mokṣe
vinaṣṭasvaro'bhūtsa māheśvaro'pi |
kaṇādaḥ pramāṇapraṇādo'pi śāntaḥ
pramāṇaṃ bruvāṇaśca gāṇāpateyaḥ || 23||
svayambrahmasūtrāyabhāve'pi buddhyā
kathaṃ brahmasūtrādibhāṣyaṃ vidadhyāt |
kathaṃ tasya śiṣyā babhūvurmanuṣyāḥ
kuto nāsti roṣaḥ kalereṣa doṣaḥ || 24||
purādarśitaṃ colabhṛtkīṭakaṇṭhaṃ
samāruhya sahyācalendropakaṇṭham |
akuṇṭhaprabhāvo'tra vaikuṇṭhakalpaḥ
sakaṇṭhīravaṃ prāpya solluṇṭhamāste || 25||
namaḥ puṇyakauṇḍinyagotrodbhavebhyo
namassālasaṅgrāmasadvaṃśajebhyaḥ |
namo vaiṣṇavebhyo mahadbhyo'rbhakebhyo
namaḥ śeṣabhāvādacintryaśca citryaḥ |
bhaje bhāṣyakāraṃ bhaje lakṣmaṇāryaṃ
bhaje sālasaṅgrāmarāmānujāryam || 26||
iti śrīsālagrāmasthalācāryapuruṣanarapatirājasaṃsthānagurūddaṇḍavedānta-
raṅgāryaviracitaṃ yatirājastotradvayaṃ sampūrṇam ||
|| iti yatirājastotraṃ sampūrṇam ||

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