Dhumavati-stava, Dhūmāvatī-stava: 1 definition

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Source: Google Books: Transformations and Transfer of Tantra in Asia and Beyond

Most remarkable is surely the stava, which appears here for the first time in the textual history of the goddess and which, in fact, is an eight-name-stotra. Here Dhūmāvatī is called Bhadrakālī, Mahākālī, Ḍamaruvādyakāriṇī, Sphāritanayanā, Ṭakaṭankitahāsinī, Jagatkartrī and Śūrpahastā. The stava reads and may be translated to:

bhadrakālī mahākālī ḍamaruvādyakāriṇī |
sphāritanayanā caiva ṭakaṭaṅkītahāsinī ||
dhūmāvatī jagatkartrī śūrpahastā tathaiva ca |
aṣṭanāmātmakaṃ stotraṃ yaḥ paṭhed bhaktisaṃyutaḥ ||
tasya sarvārthasiddhiḥ syāt satyaṃ satyaṃ hi pārvatī || Mantrasāgar 91-93

Bhadrakālī, Mahākālī, drumplayer, (you) one having the eyes wide open and (you) one laughing ‘ṭakaṭankita’, Dhūmāvatī, world-creator and (you) one holding a winnowing fan – whichever devotee recites this hymn with eight names, his all wishes will be fulfulled. Pārvatī, this is absolutely true.

This stava quite clearly, again, examplifies the nature of transformation Dhūmāvatī is subject to, also in many of the modern sources.

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