Saubhagyahrdayastotra by Sivananda
by Brian Campbell and Ben Williams | 2024 | 11,962 words
This is the English translation of the Saubhagyahrdayastotra (“praise to the heart of auspiciousness”) by Sivananda (fl. 13th century South India), who was one of the earliest interpreters of the Tantric tradition of goddess worship known as Shri-Vidya. The Saubhagyahrdaya Stotra embodies Shivananda’s synthesis of foundational Shaiva doctrine, Kund...
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Verse 10 (text and translation)
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 10:
यद् इदम् भासते देवि नामरूपक्रियात्मकम् ।
प्रकाशवपुषि त्वत्तस् तत् सर्वं नातिरिच्यते ॥ १० ॥yad idam bhāsate devi nāmarūpakriyātmakam |
prakāśavapuṣi tvattas tat sarvaṃ nātiricyate || 10 ||All this—name, form, and action, shines, O Goddess, within your body of light and none of it surpasses You.
Notes:
In this verse, Śivānanda further reinforces that everything shines (bhāsate) within Tripurasundarī's body of light (prakāśavapuṣi), a description perhaps borrowed the Kālīkrama tradition where the supreme goddess is often identified with the sun, illumination (bhāsā), and other solar imagery.[1] Śivānanda concludes this verse by teaching that nothing surpasses the goddess, a teaching reminiscent of the 300th name of the Lalitāsahasranāma that proclaims the goddess is beyond all name and form (nāmarūpavivarjitā).[2]
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
Wenta 2021.
[2]:
See Lalitasahasranāma in Paṇśikar 1935, 87.