- yogapradagaṇeśastotramthe Ganesha hymn that gives yoga
anvaya yogapradagaṇeśastotram
chandas Prose, the title
yoga yoga — Here yoga means the joining of two things that looked separate. The whole hymn is built on pairs, and on the god standing where each pair meets.
note From the Mudgala Purana. Kapila is the speaker, and the hymn is written in his own idiom: each verse hands the god one thing out of a pair and then names him as the place the two come together.
- kapilaḥKapila
- uvācasaid
anvaya kapilaḥ uvāca
chandas Prose, a speaker's line
kapila Kapila — The sage to whom the Samkhya teaching is given, which is why the verses count things off in the Samkhya way.
abhaktānāṃ viśeṣeṇa vighnakartre namo namaḥ || 1 ||
- namaḥsalutation
- teto you
- vighnarājāyato the king of obstacles
- bhaktānāmof those who love you
- vighnahāriṇewho take obstacles away
- abhaktānāmof those who do not
- viśeṣeṇaabove all
- vighnakartrewho make obstacles
- namo namaḥsalutation and salutation
anvaya vighnarājāya bhaktānām vighnahāriṇe abhaktānām viśeṣeṇa vighnakartre te namaḥ namo namaḥ
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), 8 syllables in each of 4 pādas
note The first verse states the two sides of his office plainly: he clears the road and he blocks it.
buddhyairindriyavargeṣu trividhāya namo namaḥ || 2 ||
- ākāśāyato space
- caand
- bhūtānāmamong the elements
- manaseto mind
- caand
- amareṣuamong the gods
- teto you
- buddhyaito understanding
- indriyavargeṣuamong the ranks of the senses
- trividhāyathreefold
- namo namaḥsalutation and salutation
anvaya bhūtānām ākāśāya ca amareṣu manase ca indriyavargeṣu buddhyai trividhāya te namo namaḥ
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), 8 syllables in each of 4 pādas
ākāśa space — The first and subtlest of the five elements, the one the others stand in. He is given the subtlest member of each set.
tayorabhedabhāveṣu bodhāya te namo namaḥ || 3 ||
- dehānāmof bodies
- bindurūpāyato you who are the point
- moharūpāyawho are the bewilderment
- dehināmof those who wear them
- tayoḥof those two
- abhedabhāveṣuwhere they are not two
- bodhāyato the waking
- teto you
- namo namaḥsalutation and salutation
anvaya dehānām bindurūpāya dehinām moharūpāya tayoḥ abhedabhāveṣu bodhāya te namo namaḥ
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), 8 syllables in each of 4 pādas
bindu the point — The drop or point from which a body grows, and the dot above Om. Both senses are alive here.
caturṇāṃ pañca māyaiva sarvatra te namo namaḥ || 4 ||
- sāṅkhyāyato Samkhya
- vaiindeed
- videhānāmfor those who have no body
- samyogānāmof those who are joined
- nijātmaneto the self
- caturṇāmof the four
- pañcathe fifth
- māyāmaya
- evaitself
- sarvatraeverywhere
- teto you
- namo namaḥsalutation and salutation
anvaya videhānām vai sāṅkhyāya samyogānām nijātmane caturṇām pañca sarvatra māyā eva te namo namaḥ
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), 8 syllables in each of 4 pādas
note The counting in this verse is compressed even by the standards of the Mudgala Purana, and copies of it differ.
- nāmarūpātmakānāmof everything that has name and form
- vaiindeed
- śaktirūpāyato the power
- teto you
- namaḥsalutation
anvaya nāmarūpātmakānām vai śaktirūpāya te namaḥ
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), printed a half-line at a time
nāmarūpa name and form — What makes one thing tellable from another. Everything that has it is said here to have him for its power.
- ātmanāmof selves
- ravayeto the sun
- tubhyamto you
- herambāyato Heramba
- namo namaḥsalutation and salutation
anvaya ātmanām ravaye tubhyam herambāya namo namaḥ
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), printed a half-line at a time
śaṅkarāya ca sarveṣāṃ samyoge gaṇapāya te || 6 ||
- ānandānāmamong the joys
- mahāviṣṇurūpāyato the form of Mahavishnu
- netinot this
- dhāriṇāmof those who hold to
- śaṅkarāyato Shankara
- caand
- sarveṣāmof them all
- samyogeat the joining
- gaṇapāyato Ganapa
- teto you
anvaya ānandānām mahāviṣṇurūpāya neti dhāriṇām śaṅkarāya ca sarveṣām samyoge gaṇapāya te
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), 8 syllables in each of 4 pādas
neti not this — The Upanishad's way of pointing at what cannot be described, by saying of each thing that it is not that.
sameṣu samarūpāya lambodara namo'stu te || 7 ||
- karmaṇāmof those who act
- karmayogāyato the yoga of action
- jñānayogāyato the yoga of knowledge
- jānatāmof those who know
- sameṣuamong all that is the same
- samarūpāyato the one who is the same
- lambodaraO Lambodara
- namaḥsalutation
- astube
- teto you
anvaya karmaṇām karmayogāya jānatām jñānayogāya sameṣu samarūpāya lambodara te namaḥ astu
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), 8 syllables in each of 4 pādas
- svādhīnānāmof those who are their own masters
- gaṇādhyakṣaO lord of the ganas
- sahajāyato the one who comes naturally
- namo namaḥsalutation and salutation
anvaya gaṇādhyakṣa svādhīnānām sahajāya namo namaḥ
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), printed a half-line at a time
sahaja what comes naturally — Sahaja is what is born along with a person, so what takes no effort at all.
- teṣāmof those
- abhedabhāveṣuwhere they are no longer divided
- svānandāyato Svananda
- caand
- teto you
- namaḥsalutation
anvaya teṣām abhedabhāveṣu svānandāya ca te namaḥ
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), printed a half-line at a time
- nirmāyikasvarūpāṇāmof those whose own form has no maya in it
- ayogāyato the no-yoga
- namo namaḥsalutation and salutation
anvaya nirmāyikasvarūpāṇām ayogāya namo namaḥ
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), printed a half-line at a time
ayoga no-yoga — Where nothing is separate there is nothing to join, so the joining itself falls away. The hymn gives him that state too.
- yogānāmof the yogas
- yogarūpāyato the yoga-form
- gaṇeśāyato Ganesha
- namo namaḥsalutation and salutation
anvaya yogānām yogarūpāya gaṇeśāya namo namaḥ
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), printed a half-line at a time
kiṃ staumi tatra deveśa atastvāṃ praṇamāmyaham || 10 ||
- śāntiyogapradātreto you who give the yoga of peace
- teto you
- śāntiyogamayāyawho are that peace and yoga
- caand
- kimwhat
- staumishall I praise
- tatrain it
- deveśaO lord of the gods
- ataḥso
- tvāmyou
- praṇamāmiI bow to
- ahamI
anvaya śāntiyogapradātre śāntiyogamayāya ca te deveśa tatra kim staumi ataḥ aham tvām praṇamāmi
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), 8 syllables in each of 4 pādas
harṣeṇa mahatā yukto harṣayanmunisattama || 11 ||
- tataḥthen
- tamto him
- gaṇanāthaḥthe lord of the ganas
- vaiindeed
- jagādaspoke
- bhaktamthe devotee
- uttamambest
- harṣeṇawith gladness
- mahatāgreat
- yuktaḥfilled
- harṣayanmaking him glad
- munisattamaO best of sages
anvaya munisattama tataḥ mahatā harṣeṇa yuktaḥ gaṇanāthaḥ vai harṣayan tam uttamam bhaktam jagāda
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), 8 syllables in each of 4 pādas
- śrīgaṇeśaḥShri Ganesha
- uvācasaid
anvaya śrīgaṇeśaḥ uvāca
chandas Prose, a speaker's line
dharmārthakāmamokṣāṇāṃ dāyakaṃ prabhaviṣyati || 12 ||
- tvayāby you
- kṛtammade
- madīyamof mine
- yatwhich
- stotramhymn
- yogapradamgiving yoga
- bhavetwill be
- dharmārthakāmamokṣāṇāmof right living, wealth, what is wanted, and release
- dāyakamthe giver
- prabhaviṣyatiwill turn out to be
anvaya tvayā kṛtam yat madīyam stotram yogapradam bhavet dharmārthakāmamokṣāṇām dāyakam prabhaviṣyati
chandas Anuṣṭubh (śloka), 8 syllables in each of 4 pādas
dharmārthakāmamokṣa right living, wealth, what is wanted, and release — The four aims a life is measured by. A hymn that gives all four is claiming to cover the whole of it.