tasmai namaḥ paramakāraṇakāraṇāya
dīptojjvalajjvalitapińgalalocanāya|
nāgendrahārakṛtakuṇḍalabhūṣaṇāya
brahmendraviṣṇuvaradāya namaḥ śivāya||1
śrīmatprasannaśaśipannagabhūṣaṇāya
śailendrajāvadanacumbitalocanāya|
kailāsamandaramahendraniketanāya
lokatrāyārtiharaṇāya namaḥ śivāya||2
padmāvadātamaṇikuṇḍalagovṛṣāya
kṛṣṇāgarupracuracandanacarcitāya|
bhasmānuṣaktavikacotpalamallikāya
nīlābjakaṇṭhasadṛśāya namaḥ śivāya||3
lambatsapińgalajaṭāmukuṭotkaṭāya
daḿṣṭrākarālavikaṭotkaṭabhairavāya|
vyāghrājināmbaradharāya manoharāya
trailokyanāthanamitāya namaḥ śivāya||4
dakṣaprajāpatimahāmakhanāśāya
kṣipraḿ mahātripuradānavaghātanāya|
brahmaorjitordhvagakaroṭinikṛntanāya
yogāya yoganamitāya namaḥ śivāya||5
saḿsārasṛṣṭighaṭanāparivartanāya
rakṣaḥpiśācagaṇasiddhasamākulāya|
siddhoragagrahagaṇendraniṣevitāya
śārdūlacarmavasanāya namaḥ śivāya||6
bhasmāńgarāgakṛtarūpamanoharāya
saumyāvadātavanamāśritamāśritāya|
gaurīkaṭākṣanayanārdhanirīkṣaṇāya
gokṣīradhāradhavalāya namaḥ śivāya||7
ādityasomavaruṇānilasevitāya
yajñāgnihotravaradhūmaniketanāya|
ṛksāmavedamunibhiḥ stutisaḿyutāya
gopāya gopanamitāya namaḥ śivāya||8
śivāṣṭakamidaḿ puṇyaḿ
yaḥ paṭhecchivasannidhau|
śivalokamavāpnoti
śivena saha modate||9
Salutations for that Śiva, Who is the reason behind the fundamental reason of the creation, Who has yellow eyes made resplendent by shiny lamps, Who has made the king of snakes (a cobra) as an ornament of ear-hoop, and Who bestows boons to Brahma, Indra, and Viṣṇu.||1||
Salutations for Śiva, Who is possessing splendor, Who is happy, Who has a moon and snake as adornment, Whose eyes are kissed by the lips of the daughter of Mountains (Pārvatī), Who has Kailāsa, Mandara and Mahendra mountains as His abode, and Who absolves the grief of the three-worlds.||2||
Salutations for Śiva, Who is associated with lotus, stainless jewels, ear-hoops and a bull, Who is applied by grey aloe fragrance and large amounts of sandal paste, Who has a garland of radiant lotuses which are nicely smeared with ashes, and Who has a blue-throat resembling a blue lotus.||3||
Salutations for Śiva, Who has an immense hair-matte fastened steadily by a snake, Who is fear causing by the means of frightening, fierce and horrifying teeth, Who wears an apparel made from the skin of a tiger and an elephant, Who pleases the mind [despite all this], and Who is prayed by the Lord of the three-worlds.||4||
Salutations for Śiva, Who destroyed the great sacrifice of Dakṣa Prajāpati, Who killed the great demon Tripura in a flash, Who destroyed the egotist fifth-head powered by Brahma¹, Who is Yoga in totality, and Who is revered by Yoga.||5||
Salutations for Śiva, Who is the creation, destruction and change of the world, Who is surrounded by groups of demons, apparitions, gaṇa and siddha, Who is served by the siddha, the snakes, the planets, and Who has a cloth made of the skin of a lion.||6||
Salutations for Śiva, Who makes His appearance mind-winning by smearing ashes over His body, Who is the support of those taken shelter in the forests (the sages), Who looks at the eye-glance of Gaurī with a sidewise glance, and Who has a white complexion like the color of milk of cows.||7||
Salutations for Śiva, Who is served by the Sun, the Moon, the Water and the Air, Who resides in the fumes of the fire of sacrifices, Who is eulogized by the sages using verses from Ṛk and Ṣma Veda, Who nourishes cows, and Who is revered by Nandī and other Gopa.||8||
Those who read this blissful Śivāṣṭkam in the proximity of Śiva, attain the world of Śiva and rejoice with Him.||9||
Notes:
¹When the world returned from the deluge to expansion, Brahma created Rudra and they had a verbal argument. Motivated by this, Rudra used His nails to chop off the fifth head of Brahma. Since then Rudra is known as Kapālin (see the beginning of Vāmana Puraāṇa).
Poet: Ādi Śańkara
Source: Śivastotraratnākara — Gitapress
© Stutimandal 2006, 01 July
