Ganesha Purana — Upasanakhanda — Chapter 86
GnP 1 86.1
अध्याय ८६ प्रारंभ :- क उवाच । दृष्ट्वा सा तादृशं बालं स्नेहस्नुतपयोधरा । आलिलिंग मुदा बालं तद्धस्तहृदया सती यतोऽस्य मातरं षट् ताः स षाण्मातुर इत्यपि । अयं पुत्रस्तारकजित्तारकं च विजेष्यति प्रणम्य परिपप्रच्छ सर्वकामार्थसिद्धये। स्कन्द उवाच । पितर्मयाऽश्रावि महा कथा नानाविधाः शुभाः एतन्मे सकलं ब्रूहि यदि तुष्टोऽसि शंकर । सर्वलोकोपकाराय व्रतस्यास्य प्रसिद्धये अध्याय ८७ प्रारंभ :- शंकर उवाच । अहं ते कथयिष्यामि व्रतस्यास्य विधिं परम् । श्रावणे तु सिते पक्षे चतुर्थ्यामारभेद् व्रतम् भोजयेत्तादृशान्नेन तावद्दानानि दापयेत् । नमेत् क्षमापयेत् पश्चादच्छिद्रमिति वाचयेत् बालानां दण्डयुद्धैश्च तां विसृज्य गृहं व्रजेत् । व्रतमेवं तु यः कुर्यादेकवारं षडानन व्रतं चकार विधिवद्यथोक्तं शम्भुना पुरा। अनुष्ठानाच्च मन्त्रस्य व्रतस्यास्य प्रभावतः तेनैव जातः परिपूर्णकामः तथापि याचे तव देववाक्यात् । पराजयो मे न कदापि भूयात् प्रत्यक्षतामेहि विचिन्त्यमानः स्तुत्वा नत्वा ययौ स्कन्दः शंकरं लोकशंकरम् । मयूरमारुह्य ततः सर्वं चाकथयच्च तम् परमेण विशाखेन तन्मे ब्रूहि प्रजापते । ब्रह्मोवाच । अनुष्ठानं कृतं तेन यत्रास्ते घृषणेश्वरः अध्याय ८८ प्रारंभ :- मुनिरुवाच । श्रुतमाख्यानकं ब्रह्मन् गजाननव्रताश्रयम् । दग्धश्चेन्मदनस्तेन शंकरेण रुषाग्निना। ददामि तुष्ट: स्तोत्रेण सर्वांन्कामान् हृदि स्थितान् । इत्थं शिववचः श्रुत्वा रतिर्हृष्टा प्रणम्य तम् साऽगता शिववाक्येन मन्दिरं भृशसुंदरम् । सस्मार तं पतिं सा तु पुरोऽनंगः समाययौ संवत्सरशतं पूर्णं तताप स तपो महत् । एकाक्षरं जपन्मन्त्रं गणेशध्यान तत्परः अद्य धन्यं मम जनुस्तपो धन्यतरं च मे । यत्तवाङघ्रियुगं दृष्टं सर्वदुःखविमोचनम् मान्यतां सर्व देवेषु प्राग्वल्लावण्यमेव च । भक्तिं दृढां त्वच्चरणे त्रैलोक्यविजयं तथा अध्याय ८९ प्रारंभ :- गणेश उवाच । यद्यत्ते प्रार्थितं काम तत्तत्ते भविताऽखिलम् । रमोदराज्जनिं प्राप्य सांगस्त्वं सर्वसुन्दरः मत्स्येन गिलितस्तत्र स मत्स्यो धीवरैस्ततः । शम्बरायार्पितेनापि मायावत्ये निवेदितः षडक्षरेण मन्त्रेण शेषेणाराधितो यथा । रतिश्च मदनश्चापि ननन्दतुरुभौ यथा भस्मांगं शेषशिरसं शंकरं वृषभध्वजम् । अपरैरर्चितं देवमुपचारैर्मनोमयैः इमामवस्थां संप्राप्तो न जाने केन कर्मणा । चलितुं नैव शक्नोमि पक्षहीन इवाण्डजः अध्याय ९० प्रारंभ :- नारद उवाच । किमर्थमेवं जातोऽसि निस्तेजा दुःखितो भृशम् । कथं भग्नशिरा कस्याचरोऽप्रियतरं मुने यस्मिन् प्रसन्ने सर्वेशे पूर्वावस्थामवाप्स्यसि । कारुण्यं तव दृष्ट्वैव क्लिन्नं मे सर्वमानसम् कल्याणे कर्मणि कथं क्रियमाणे शुभं भवेत् । अथवा नारदेनोक्तं द्रक्ष्यामि गणनायकम् विद्यानामधिपं देवं देवदेवं सुरप्रियम् । सिद्धिबुद्धिप्रियं सर्वं सिद्धिदं भुक्तिमुक्तिदम् धराधरणसामर्थ्यं दृढं तव भविष्यति । पंचास्यपंचशिरसि मत्प्रसादात् स्थितिं स्थिराम् मदनुग्रहतोऽदर्शि त्वया शेषाद्य भाग्यतः । अचलं मयि ते स्थानं पातालेऽपि शिवेऽपि च । मया दत्तं प्रसन्नेन धर पुष्पमिवाद्य गाम्
adhyāya 86 prāraṃbha :- ka uvāca | dṛṣṭvā sā tādṛśaṃ bālaṃ snehasnutapayodharā | āliliṃga mudā bālaṃ taddhastahṛdayā satī yato'sya mātaraṃ ṣaṭ tāḥ sa ṣāṇmātura ityapi | ayaṃ putrastārakajittārakaṃ ca vijeṣyati praṇamya paripapraccha sarvakāmārthasiddhaye| skanda uvāca | pitarmayā'śrāvi mahā kathā nānāvidhāḥ śubhāḥ etanme sakalaṃ brūhi yadi tuṣṭo'si śaṃkara | sarvalokopakārāya vratasyāsya prasiddhaye adhyāya 87 prāraṃbha :- śaṃkara uvāca | ahaṃ te kathayiṣyāmi vratasyāsya vidhiṃ param | śrāvaṇe tu site pakṣe caturthyāmārabhed vratam bhojayettādṛśānnena tāvaddānāni dāpayet | namet kṣamāpayet paścādacchidramiti vācayet bālānāṃ daṇḍayuddhaiśca tāṃ visṛjya gṛhaṃ vrajet | vratamevaṃ tu yaḥ kuryādekavāraṃ ṣaḍānana vrataṃ cakāra vidhivadyathoktaṃ śambhunā purā| anuṣṭhānācca mantrasya vratasyāsya prabhāvataḥ tenaiva jātaḥ paripūrṇakāmaḥ tathāpi yāce tava devavākyāt | parājayo me na kadāpi bhūyāt pratyakṣatāmehi vicintyamānaḥ stutvā natvā yayau skandaḥ śaṃkaraṃ lokaśaṃkaram | mayūramāruhya tataḥ sarvaṃ cākathayacca tam parameṇa viśākhena tanme brūhi prajāpate | brahmovāca | anuṣṭhānaṃ kṛtaṃ tena yatrāste ghṛṣaṇeśvaraḥ adhyāya 88 prāraṃbha :- muniruvāca | śrutamākhyānakaṃ brahman gajānanavratāśrayam | dagdhaścenmadanastena śaṃkareṇa ruṣāgninā| dadāmi tuṣṭa: stotreṇa sarvāṃnkāmān hṛdi sthitān | itthaṃ śivavacaḥ śrutvā ratirhṛṣṭā praṇamya tam sā'gatā śivavākyena mandiraṃ bhṛśasuṃdaram | sasmāra taṃ patiṃ sā tu puro'naṃgaḥ samāyayau saṃvatsaraśataṃ pūrṇaṃ tatāpa sa tapo mahat | ekākṣaraṃ japanmantraṃ gaṇeśadhyāna tatparaḥ adya dhanyaṃ mama janustapo dhanyataraṃ ca me | yattavāṅaghriyugaṃ dṛṣṭaṃ sarvaduḥkhavimocanam mānyatāṃ sarva deveṣu prāgvallāvaṇyameva ca | bhaktiṃ dṛḍhāṃ tvaccaraṇe trailokyavijayaṃ tathā adhyāya 89 prāraṃbha :- gaṇeśa uvāca | yadyatte prārthitaṃ kāma tattatte bhavitā'khilam | ramodarājjaniṃ prāpya sāṃgastvaṃ sarvasundaraḥ matsyena gilitastatra sa matsyo dhīvaraistataḥ | śambarāyārpitenāpi māyāvatye niveditaḥ ṣaḍakṣareṇa mantreṇa śeṣeṇārādhito yathā | ratiśca madanaścāpi nanandaturubhau yathā bhasmāṃgaṃ śeṣaśirasaṃ śaṃkaraṃ vṛṣabhadhvajam | aparairarcitaṃ devamupacārairmanomayaiḥ imāmavasthāṃ saṃprāpto na jāne kena karmaṇā | calituṃ naiva śaknomi pakṣahīna ivāṇḍajaḥ adhyāya 90 prāraṃbha :- nārada uvāca | kimarthamevaṃ jāto'si nistejā duḥkhito bhṛśam | kathaṃ bhagnaśirā kasyācaro'priyataraṃ mune yasmin prasanne sarveśe pūrvāvasthāmavāpsyasi | kāruṇyaṃ tava dṛṣṭvaiva klinnaṃ me sarvamānasam kalyāṇe karmaṇi kathaṃ kriyamāṇe śubhaṃ bhavet | athavā nāradenoktaṃ drakṣyāmi gaṇanāyakam vidyānāmadhipaṃ devaṃ devadevaṃ surapriyam | siddhibuddhipriyaṃ sarvaṃ siddhidaṃ bhuktimuktidam dharādharaṇasāmarthyaṃ dṛḍhaṃ tava bhaviṣyati | paṃcāsyapaṃcaśirasi matprasādāt sthitiṃ sthirām madanugrahato'darśi tvayā śeṣādya bhāgyataḥ | acalaṃ mayi te sthānaṃ pātāle'pi śive'pi ca | mayā dattaṃ prasannena dhara puṣpamivādya gām
Chapter 86 begins. — Ka said: Seeing such a child, her breasts flowing with milk out of affection, the good woman joyfully embraced the child, her hand (upon him), her heart (his). || Since his mothers were six, he is also called Ṣāṇmātura; "this son is the conqueror of Tāraka, and he will conquer Tāraka." || Having bowed, he asked, for the accomplishment of every desire and aim. Skanda said: Father, I have heard the great tale, auspicious and of many kinds. || Tell me all of this, if you are pleased, Śaṃkara, for the benefit of all the worlds and for the establishing of this vow. || Chapter 87 begins. — Śaṃkara said: I shall declare to you the supreme rule of this vow: in Śrāvaṇa, in the bright fortnight, on the fourth day one should begin the vow. || He should feed (them) with such food and have that many gifts given; he should bow, ask forgiveness, and afterwards have "acchidram" recited. || With stick-fights of children he should dismiss her (the image) and go home. Whoever performs the vow thus even once, O six-faced one... || He performed the vow according to rule, as Śambhu had told it of old; and from the practice of the mantra, by the power of this vow, || by that very thing he became one whose every desire was fulfilled; yet I beg of you, from the god's own word: may defeat never be mine — become visible when I think of you. || Having praised and bowed, Skanda went to Śaṃkara, the world's benefactor; then, mounting his peacock, he told him everything. || "Tell me that, O Prajāpati, by the supreme Viśākha(?)." Brahmā said: The observance was performed by him where Ghṛṣaṇeśvara dwells. || Chapter 88 begins. — The sage said: I have heard the tale, O brahman, that rests upon the vow of the elephant-faced one. If Madana was burnt by that Śaṃkara with the fire of his wrath... || "Being pleased by the hymn, I grant all the desires that are seated in your heart." Hearing Śiva's words thus, Rati was delighted and bowed to him. || By Śiva's word she came to a most beautiful house; she remembered her husband, and the bodiless one came before her. || For a full hundred years he practised great austerity, reciting the one-syllabled mantra, intent on meditation upon Gaṇeśa. || "Today my birth is blessed, and my austerity more blessed still, in that your pair of feet, which releases from all sorrow, has been seen. || (Grant me) honour among all the gods, and loveliness as before, firm devotion at your feet, and victory over the three worlds." || Chapter 89 begins. — Gaṇeśa said: Whatever you have asked for, Kāma, all of it shall be yours; obtaining birth from Ramā's womb you shall be whole and altogether beautiful. || There he was swallowed by a fish; that fish was then (caught) by fishermen, and, being presented to Śambara, was handed over to Māyāvatī. || As Śeṣa worshipped with the six-syllabled mantra, and as both Rati and Madana rejoiced... || Śaṃkara, his body smeared with ash, with Śeṣa on his head, bull-bannered — the god worshipped by others with services made of the mind. || "I have come to this condition, I do not know by what deed; I cannot move at all, like a bird bereft of wings." || Chapter 90 begins. — Nārada said: Why have you become like this, without lustre, exceedingly grieved? How is your head broken? Whose most unwelcome servant are you, O sage? || He, the lord of all, when pleased — through him you will regain your former state; merely at the sight of your pitiable state my whole mind is melted. || "How, when an auspicious act is being done, may good come about? Or rather, as Nārada has said, I shall behold the lord of the Gaṇas, || the god who is master of the sciences, god of gods, dear to the gods, dear to Siddhi and Buddhi, giver of every attainment, of enjoyment and of release." || "Your strength to bear the earth shall be firm, and by my favour a steady station upon the five heads of the five-faced one. || By my grace you have today, Śeṣa, by good fortune, been granted the sight (of me); your place with me is unshakable, in Pātāla and in Śiva alike. It has been given by me, being pleased: bear the earth today as if it were a flower."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.2
तामूचे मम बालोऽयं गंगागंभीरनिस्वना । ममायमिति तां प्राह वह्निर्बालो गिरेः सुताम् तिलामलककल्केन प्रातःस्नानं विधाय च । नित्यनैमित्तिकं सर्वं समाप्य क्रोधवर्जितः दृश्यते सर्वलोकेषु मदनोऽद्यापि तत्कथम् । एतत्कथय मे सर्वं विस्तराच्चतुरानन भविता सर्वमान्यश्च त्रैलोक्यविजयी तथा। पुप्पं फलं किसलयं कामिन्यवयवा मरुत् किं वा क्षुब्धो गिरीशस्तेऽकारि गर्व स्त्वयाऽथ किम् । वद यत्कारणं शेष प्रतीकारं पुरा वदे
tāmūce mama bālo'yaṃ gaṃgāgaṃbhīranisvanā | mamāyamiti tāṃ prāha vahnirbālo gireḥ sutām tilāmalakakalkena prātaḥsnānaṃ vidhāya ca | nityanaimittikaṃ sarvaṃ samāpya krodhavarjitaḥ dṛśyate sarvalokeṣu madano'dyāpi tatkatham | etatkathaya me sarvaṃ vistarāccaturānana bhavitā sarvamānyaśca trailokyavijayī tathā| puppaṃ phalaṃ kisalayaṃ kāminyavayavā marut kiṃ vā kṣubdho girīśaste'kāri garva stvayā'tha kim | vada yatkāraṇaṃ śeṣa pratīkāraṃ purā vade
She, whose voice was deep as the Gaṅgā, said to her: "This child is mine"; and Fire said to her, the mountain's daughter: "He is mine." || Having performed the morning bath with a paste of sesame and āmalaka, and having completed all the daily and occasional rites, free from anger... || "But Madana is seen in all the worlds even today — how is that? Tell me all this in detail, four-faced one." || "He will be honoured by all and likewise the conqueror of the three worlds; flower, fruit, tender shoot, the limbs of a lovely woman, and the wind (shall be his)." || "Or was the mountain-lord angered against you? Did you show pride? Say what the cause is, Śeṣa; first let the remedy be told."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.3
कृत्तिकाद्याश्च तां प्राहुरस्मज्जातोऽयमर्भकः । अस्माकमेव बालोऽयमिति चुक्रुशुरातुराः शुचौ मण्डपिकां कृत्वा कदलीस्तम्भमंडिताम् । इक्षुचामरपुष्पाढयामादर्शां वलिशोभिताम् ब्रह्मोवाच । तृतीयं तु तदा नेत्रं रुषोद्घाटितवान्हरः । अपराधं तु विज्ञाय मदनस्य रतिस्तदा उद्बोधकानि ते सन्तु ज्योत्स्ना चन्दन नीरजे । मरालाण्डज शब्दश्च जेतास्येतैर्हरादिकान् त्वां विना कारयेत्को नु चराचरयुतां धराम् । अनुक्तवति तस्मिंस्तु स्वयमेवाब्रवीन्मुनिः
kṛttikādyāśca tāṃ prāhurasmajjāto'yamarbhakaḥ | asmākameva bālo'yamiti cukruśurāturāḥ śucau maṇḍapikāṃ kṛtvā kadalīstambhamaṃḍitām | ikṣucāmarapuṣpāḍhayāmādarśāṃ valiśobhitām brahmovāca | tṛtīyaṃ tu tadā netraṃ ruṣodghāṭitavānharaḥ | aparādhaṃ tu vijñāya madanasya ratistadā udbodhakāni te santu jyotsnā candana nīraje | marālāṇḍaja śabdaśca jetāsyetairharādikān tvāṃ vinā kārayetko nu carācarayutāṃ dharām | anuktavati tasmiṃstu svayamevābravīnmuniḥ
And the Kṛttikās and the others said to her: "This infant is born of us; this child is ours alone" — so they cried out, distressed. || Having made a small pavilion on pure ground, adorned with plantain-posts, rich with sugarcane, chowries and flowers, furnished with a mirror, made lovely with festoons. || Brahmā said: Then Hara opened his third eye in anger; but Rati, understanding Madana's offence, then... || "Let moonlight, sandal and the lotus be your awakeners, and the cry of geese and birds; with these you will conquer Hara and the rest." || "Who indeed but you could bear the earth with its moving and unmoving beings?" When he did not speak, the sage himself said (this).
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.4
एवं विवदमानास्ता याता वह्निपुरोगमाः। कैलासे देवनिलये गिरिशं चन्द्रशेखरम् तन्मध्ये कलशम् स्थाप्य वस्त्रयुग्मेन वेष्टितम् । तत्र चाष्टदलं पद्मं कारयेच्चन्दनेन तु आक्रन्दती मृतं कामं हरान्तिकमुपागमत् । साष्टांगप्रणिपत्यैनं तुष्टाव च यथामति दर्शनात् स्मरणादेषां मनस्यपि भविष्यसि । मनोभूः स्मृतिभूरेवं नामापि स्याज्जनेषु ते उपायं नागराजस्य स्वस्थानप्रापकं शुभम् । नारद उवाच । अवधारय मे वाक्यं शेषाशेषकला निधे
evaṃ vivadamānāstā yātā vahnipurogamāḥ| kailāse devanilaye giriśaṃ candraśekharam tanmadhye kalaśam sthāpya vastrayugmena veṣṭitam | tatra cāṣṭadalaṃ padmaṃ kārayeccandanena tu ākrandatī mṛtaṃ kāmaṃ harāntikamupāgamat | sāṣṭāṃgapraṇipatyainaṃ tuṣṭāva ca yathāmati darśanāt smaraṇādeṣāṃ manasyapi bhaviṣyasi | manobhūḥ smṛtibhūrevaṃ nāmāpi syājjaneṣu te upāyaṃ nāgarājasya svasthānaprāpakaṃ śubham | nārada uvāca | avadhāraya me vākyaṃ śeṣāśeṣakalā nidhe
Thus disputing they went, with Fire at their head, to Kailāsa, the gods' abode, to Giriśa the moon-crested. || In the middle of it, having set a pot wrapped in a pair of cloths, one should there make an eight-petalled lotus with sandal paste. || Lamenting, she came near to Hara on account of the dead Kāma; prostrating before him with the eight limbs, she praised him as best she could. || "From being seen and from being remembered, you will exist even in the mind; thus your names among men will be Manobhū and Smṛtibhū." || "An auspicious means for bringing the serpent-king back to his own station —" Nārada said: "Mark my word, Śeṣa, treasury of every art."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.5
गौरी विवेश प्रथमं कटिन्यस्त स्वबालकाः । शिवो गृहीत्वा तं स्वांके शिरस्याघ्राय मन्त्रतः गुरोराज्ञां गृहीत्वा च पूजाद्रव्याणि प्रोक्षयेत् । उपचारैः षोडशभिः पूजयेद् गणनायकम् रतिरुवाच । नमामि देवं गिरिजासहायं वृषध्वजं भालविलोचनं च । य: पाति लोकान् खलु सत्वयुक्तो निर्माति लोकान् रजसा गुणेन अविस्मृतिर्मच्चरणे दृढा भक्तिश्च ते भवेत् । स्मृताऽहं पुरतः स्यां ते महत्कार्यउपस्थिते सुपर्वाणश्च केशाद्या येन स्युः किङ्करा इव । धरिष्यसे धरां मूर्निेन पुष्पमालामिवार्भकः
gaurī viveśa prathamaṃ kaṭinyasta svabālakāḥ | śivo gṛhītvā taṃ svāṃke śirasyāghrāya mantrataḥ gurorājñāṃ gṛhītvā ca pūjādravyāṇi prokṣayet | upacāraiḥ ṣoḍaśabhiḥ pūjayed gaṇanāyakam ratiruvāca | namāmi devaṃ girijāsahāyaṃ vṛṣadhvajaṃ bhālavilocanaṃ ca | ya: pāti lokān khalu satvayukto nirmāti lokān rajasā guṇena avismṛtirmaccaraṇe dṛḍhā bhaktiśca te bhavet | smṛtā'haṃ purataḥ syāṃ te mahatkāryaupasthite suparvāṇaśca keśādyā yena syuḥ kiṅkarā iva | dhariṣyase dharāṃ mūrniena puṣpamālāmivārbhakaḥ
Gaurī entered first, her child set upon her hip; Śiva, taking him upon his lap, kissed his head with a mantra. || Having obtained the teacher's permission, he should sprinkle the articles of worship; with the sixteen services he should worship the Lord of the Gaṇas. || Rati said: I bow to the god, the consort of the mountain-born, the bull-bannered, with an eye upon his brow, who, joined with sattva, protects the worlds, and fashions the worlds by the quality of rajas. || "May you have no forgetfulness of my feet, and firm devotion; when remembered, I shall be before you when a great task is at hand." || "By which the gods, from their hair down(?), will be as if servants; you will bear the earth on your head as a child bears a garland of flowers."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.6
रमयामास परया मुदा देवस्त्रिलोचनः । गंगा वह्निः षट्स्त्रियस्ता गृहं जग्मुर्यथा गतम् कांचनं राजतं वापि स्वस्वशक्त्या विनिर्मितम् । एकविंशति पक्वान्नैरेकविंशति संख्यकैः यः स्वेच्छया संहरतेऽखिलेशो जगत्तमोविष्टतनुर्महेशः । यो नुः कपालं वहते जनानां भिक्षाशनः पूरयतेऽखिलार्थान् ब्रह्मोवाच । एवं तस्मै वरान् दत्त्वा कामायाथ गजाननः । अन्तर्दधे महाभाग पश्यत्सु च सुरर्षिषु शेष उवाच । किंचित् पुरातनं पुण्यमासीच्चेद्दर्शनं तव। अजन्य कस्मादग्रेऽपि सम्यङ्मे स्यान्न संशयः
ramayāmāsa parayā mudā devastrilocanaḥ | gaṃgā vahniḥ ṣaṭstriyastā gṛhaṃ jagmuryathā gatam kāṃcanaṃ rājataṃ vāpi svasvaśaktyā vinirmitam | ekaviṃśati pakvānnairekaviṃśati saṃkhyakaiḥ yaḥ svecchayā saṃharate'khileśo jagattamoviṣṭatanurmaheśaḥ | yo nuḥ kapālaṃ vahate janānāṃ bhikṣāśanaḥ pūrayate'khilārthān brahmovāca | evaṃ tasmai varān dattvā kāmāyātha gajānanaḥ | antardadhe mahābhāga paśyatsu ca surarṣiṣu śeṣa uvāca | kiṃcit purātanaṃ puṇyamāsīcceddarśanaṃ tava| ajanya kasmādagre'pi samyaṅme syānna saṃśayaḥ
The three-eyed god took delight (in him) with supreme joy; Gaṅgā, Fire and those six women went home as they had come. || Golden or else silver, fashioned according to each one's means; with twenty-one cooked dishes, twenty-one in number... || He who at will withdraws (all), the lord of all, Maheśa whose body is pervaded by the world's darkness; who bears a skull, eating the alms of men, yet fulfils every desire. || Brahmā said: Having thus granted boons to Kāma, the elephant-faced one vanished, O greatly fortunate one, while the gods and seers looked on. || Śeṣa said: If there was some ancient merit (of mine), (there was) the sight of you, O unborn one; for what other reason? Henceforth too all will be well with me — there is no doubt.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.7
तन्नामकरणार्थाय ब्रह्मणं च बृहस्पतिम् । आहूय शिव ऊचे तौ नामास्य क्रियतामिति गजाननाय देवाय नैवेद्यं परिकल्पयेत् । एकविंशति मुद्रास्तु दक्षिणार्थं निवेदयेत् दीनानुकम्पी भगवान् महेशो गतप्रियायाः शरणं ममास्ताम् । कर्तुं तथाऽकर्तुमदीनसत्त्वः शक्तोऽन्यथा कर्तुमपीह देवः तत्र कामो महामूर्तिं गणेशस्य तथाविधाम् । संपाद्य स्थापयामास पूजयामास तां तदा अन्यथा कृतपुण्यानां दर्शनं तु कथं भवेत्। अति विह्वलगात्रत्वादशक्तो भूमिधारणे
tannāmakaraṇārthāya brahmaṇaṃ ca bṛhaspatim | āhūya śiva ūce tau nāmāsya kriyatāmiti gajānanāya devāya naivedyaṃ parikalpayet | ekaviṃśati mudrāstu dakṣiṇārthaṃ nivedayet dīnānukampī bhagavān maheśo gatapriyāyāḥ śaraṇaṃ mamāstām | kartuṃ tathā'kartumadīnasattvaḥ śakto'nyathā kartumapīha devaḥ tatra kāmo mahāmūrtiṃ gaṇeśasya tathāvidhām | saṃpādya sthāpayāmāsa pūjayāmāsa tāṃ tadā anyathā kṛtapuṇyānāṃ darśanaṃ tu kathaṃ bhavet| ati vihvalagātratvādaśakto bhūmidhāraṇe
For the sake of his naming, Śiva summoned Brahmā and Bṛhaspati and said to those two: "Let his name be made." || For the god Gajānana one should prepare the food-offering; and one should present twenty-one coins as the fee. || "May the Lord Maheśa, compassionate to the wretched, be a refuge to me whose beloved is gone; the god, undaunted in his being, is able here to do, and not to do, and even to do otherwise." || There Kāma, having procured a great image of Gaṇeśa of that kind, installed it and then worshipped it. || "Otherwise, how could there be the sight (of you), which belongs to those who have done merit? Because my body is exceedingly overcome, I am unable to bear the earth."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.8
ब्रह्माबृहस्पती ऊचतुः । कार्तिके मासि जातोऽयं कार्तिकेय इति स्फुटम् । नामास्य प्रथमं देव पार्वतीनन्दनोऽपि च सौवर्णी राजतीर्वापि वित्तशाठ्यं विवर्जितः । एकविंशति दूर्वाश्च श्वेता वा हरिता अपि स मे विधत्तां शरणं गताया सौभाग्यमुच्चैर्मृतजीवनेन । नो चेदहं प्राणविसर्जनेन यशः करिष्ये विपरीतमीश रतिनिर्मित पक्वान्नैर्मोदकैर्लड्डुकादिभिः । महोत्कटेति नामास्य तेजस्वित्वात्तथाऽकरोत् तं प्रयत्नं वद मुने येनाहं स्यां यथा पुरा । नारद उवाच । भणे महामनुं तेऽद्य तस्य देवस्य नागराट्।
brahmābṛhaspatī ūcatuḥ | kārtike māsi jāto'yaṃ kārtikeya iti sphuṭam | nāmāsya prathamaṃ deva pārvatīnandano'pi ca sauvarṇī rājatīrvāpi vittaśāṭhyaṃ vivarjitaḥ | ekaviṃśati dūrvāśca śvetā vā haritā api sa me vidhattāṃ śaraṇaṃ gatāyā saubhāgyamuccairmṛtajīvanena | no cedahaṃ prāṇavisarjanena yaśaḥ kariṣye viparītamīśa ratinirmita pakvānnairmodakairlaḍḍukādibhiḥ | mahotkaṭeti nāmāsya tejasvitvāttathā'karot taṃ prayatnaṃ vada mune yenāhaṃ syāṃ yathā purā | nārada uvāca | bhaṇe mahāmanuṃ te'dya tasya devasya nāgarāṭ|
Brahmā and Bṛhaspati said: This one is born in the month of Kārtika, so clearly "Kārtikeya" — let this be his first name, O God, and also "Pārvatī's delight." (Images) of gold or of silver, (made by one) free of stinginess with wealth; and twenty-one dūrvā blades, white or green. May he grant refuge to me who have come to him, and high good fortune, by bringing the dead to life; if not, I shall win fame by giving up my life — the reverse, O Lord — (thus) made by Rati. With cooked foods, modakas, laḍḍus and the like — he made his name "Mahotkaṭa" because of his fiery splendour. Tell, O sage, that effort by which I may become as before. Nārada said: I shall utter for you today the great mantra of that god, O king of serpents.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.9
शरद्वीपेऽयमुत्पन्नः शरजन्मा ततोऽपि च । कृत्तिकाभ्योऽपि जातत्वात् कार्तिकेय इति स्मृतः अर्पयेद्देवदेवाय मन्त्रपुष्पांजलिं तथा । ब्राह्मणान्वेदविदुषः पूजयेदेकविंशतिम् ब्रह्मोवाच । एवं तया स्तुता शम्भुः प्रसन्नस्तामथाब्रवीत् । शम्भुरुवाच । वरं वृणु महाभागे कामपत्नि शुभानने प्रासादं निर्ममे कान्तं रत्नस्तम्भविराजितम् । रुक्मिण्या उदराज्जातस्त्यक्तो दैत्येन वारिधौ यस्य प्रसादादिन्द्राद्यास्तत्तत् पदमवाप्नुवन् । केशा यदाज्ञयाऽशेष सृष्टिस्थित्यन्तकारिणः
śaradvīpe'yamutpannaḥ śarajanmā tato'pi ca | kṛttikābhyo'pi jātatvāt kārtikeya iti smṛtaḥ arpayeddevadevāya mantrapuṣpāṃjaliṃ tathā | brāhmaṇānvedaviduṣaḥ pūjayedekaviṃśatim brahmovāca | evaṃ tayā stutā śambhuḥ prasannastāmathābravīt | śambhuruvāca | varaṃ vṛṇu mahābhāge kāmapatni śubhānane prāsādaṃ nirmame kāntaṃ ratnastambhavirājitam | rukmiṇyā udarājjātastyakto daityena vāridhau yasya prasādādindrādyāstattat padamavāpnuvan | keśā yadājñayā'śeṣa sṛṣṭisthityantakāriṇaḥ
He was born on Śara island, and therefore also "Śarajanman"; and because he was born of the Kṛttikās he is known as Kārtikeya. And one should offer to the God of gods a handful of flowers with mantras; one should honour twenty-one brahmins learned in the Vedas. Brahmā said: Thus praised by her, Śambhu was pleased and then said to her. Śambhu said: Choose a boon, greatly blessed one, wife of Kāma, fair-faced one. He built a lovely palace shining with jewelled pillars. Born from Rukmiṇī's womb, he was cast into the ocean by a demon — he by whose grace Indra and the rest obtained their several stations, whose hairs, by whose command, are the agents of the entire creation, maintenance and destruction.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.11
देवसेनापतिर्भावी सेनानीरिति शब्दितः । तत एव महासेनः षण्मुखत्वात् षडाननः पार्थिवस्य गणेशस्य विधानं कथितं पुरा । पूजाप्रकारः सोऽप्यत्र सर्व एव उदाहृतः सौभाग्यकामा तं देवं निजगाद भृशातुरा । रतिरुवाच । स्वामिन् यदि प्रसन्नश्चेच्छृणु मे परमं वचः विभिन्नेऽस्मिंस्तदुदरान्निर्गतो वर्द्धितस्तया। नारदोऽकथयत्तस्यै कामोऽयं वर्द्धितस्त्वया अतः षडक्षरं मन्त्रं गणेशस्य ददामि ते । अस्यानुष्ठानमात्रेण प्रत्यक्षस्ते गजाननः
devasenāpatirbhāvī senānīriti śabditaḥ | tata eva mahāsenaḥ ṣaṇmukhatvāt ṣaḍānanaḥ pārthivasya gaṇeśasya vidhānaṃ kathitaṃ purā | pūjāprakāraḥ so'pyatra sarva eva udāhṛtaḥ saubhāgyakāmā taṃ devaṃ nijagāda bhṛśāturā | ratiruvāca | svāmin yadi prasannaścecchṛṇu me paramaṃ vacaḥ vibhinne'smiṃstadudarānnirgato varddhitastayā| nārado'kathayattasyai kāmo'yaṃ varddhitastvayā ataḥ ṣaḍakṣaraṃ mantraṃ gaṇeśasya dadāmi te | asyānuṣṭhānamātreṇa pratyakṣaste gajānanaḥ
He will become commander of the gods' army, and so is called "Senānī"; from that very fact "Mahāsena"; and from having six faces, "Ṣaḍānana." The rite of the earthen Gaṇeśa was told before; that whole mode of worship too has been set forth here. Desiring good fortune, greatly afflicted, she spoke to that god. Rati said: Lord, if you are pleased, hear my highest words. When he was split open, (the child) came out of his belly and was reared by her. Nārada told her: this Kāma has been reared by you. Therefore I give you the six-syllabled mantra of Gaṇeśa; by the mere practice of it Gajānana will be visible to you.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.12
स्कन्नं त्रिवारं रेतो यत् तेन स्कन्दोऽयमुच्यते । तयोस्तु वदतोरेवं शक्राद्या आययुः सुराः कथां तामेव शृणुयात् पश्चाद् बन्धुयुतः स्वयम् । ध्यायन् गणेशं भुंजीत मौनेर्नोपवसेत वा रसायां दिवि भूमौ वा कान्ताः स्युः कामिनीगुणाः । मम लावण्यलेषो न तेषु कापि त्रिलोचन उपदिष्टोऽनेकमायाः शम्बरं स ततोऽवधीत् । गणेशस्य प्रसादेन बहुनेको व्यजिग्यत सर्वान् विधास्यते कामान्यान्यांस्त्वं वृणुषे ततः
skannaṃ trivāraṃ reto yat tena skando'yamucyate | tayostu vadatorevaṃ śakrādyā āyayuḥ surāḥ kathāṃ tāmeva śṛṇuyāt paścād bandhuyutaḥ svayam | dhyāyan gaṇeśaṃ bhuṃjīta maunernopavaseta vā rasāyāṃ divi bhūmau vā kāntāḥ syuḥ kāminīguṇāḥ | mama lāvaṇyaleṣo na teṣu kāpi trilocana upadiṣṭo'nekamāyāḥ śambaraṃ sa tato'vadhīt | gaṇeśasya prasādena bahuneko vyajigyata sarvān vidhāsyate kāmānyānyāṃstvaṃ vṛṇuṣe tataḥ
Because the seed was shed three times, he is therefore called Skanda. While the two were speaking thus, Śakra and the other gods came. Afterwards one should oneself, together with one's kinsmen, listen to that very story; meditating on Gaṇeśa one should eat in silence, or else fast. In the netherworld, in heaven or on earth there may be lovely women with a woman's charms; (yet) not a trace of my beauty is in any of them, O three-eyed one. Being instructed, he then slew Śambara of many magic arts; by Gaṇeśa's grace he alone defeated many. He will fulfil all (your) desires; ask, then, for whatever else you wish.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.13
आननन्दुश्च नेमुस्तं पुपूजुस्तुष्टुवुर्जगुः । व्यानशे रोदसी दिव्यं वाद्यशब्दो रसातलम् मां दृष्ट्वा मुमुचुः शक्रमुख्या वीर्यमपत्रपाः । ततो मे महती लज्जा जातामेतामपाकुरु मायावत्या शिक्षिताभिर्मायाभिर्बहुभिश्च सः । प्रद्युम्न इति विख्यातः सरस्वत्याः पुरं ययौ क उवाच । कृत्वोपदेशं शेषाय नारदोन्तर्हितोऽभवत् । शेषोऽपि तपसे कृत्वा निश्चयं परमं शुभम् । निरुद्धाशेषकरणो ध्यात्वा देवं गजाननम्
ānananduśca nemustaṃ pupūjustuṣṭuvurjaguḥ | vyānaśe rodasī divyaṃ vādyaśabdo rasātalam māṃ dṛṣṭvā mumucuḥ śakramukhyā vīryamapatrapāḥ | tato me mahatī lajjā jātāmetāmapākuru māyāvatyā śikṣitābhirmāyābhirbahubhiśca saḥ | pradyumna iti vikhyātaḥ sarasvatyāḥ puraṃ yayau ka uvāca | kṛtvopadeśaṃ śeṣāya nāradontarhito'bhavat | śeṣo'pi tapase kṛtvā niścayaṃ paramaṃ śubham | niruddhāśeṣakaraṇo dhyātvā devaṃ gajānanam
And they rejoiced, bowed to him, worshipped, praised and sang; the sound of divine music filled heaven and earth and the netherworld. Seeing me, Śakra and the chief gods shamelessly shed their seed; from that a great shame arose for me — remove it. And with the many magic arts taught by Māyāvatī, he, famed as Pradyumna, went to the city of Sarasvatī. Ka said: Having given the instruction to Śeṣa, Nārada vanished. Śeṣa too, having made the supreme, auspicious resolve upon austerity, with all his organs restrained, meditating on the god Gajānana...
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.14
ततस्ते प्रार्थयामासुः सेनान्यं प्रणिपत्य च । त्रैलोक्यकंटकं देव जहि त्वं तारकासुरम् एवं मासव्रतं कुर्यांद्यावद् भाद्रचतुर्थिका। तस्यां महोत्सवः कार्यो यथाविभवमादरात् १३॥ पूर्वोक्तेन विधानेन पूजयेद् गणनायकम् । रात्रौ जागरणं कार्यं गीतवादित्रनि:स्वनैः लावण्यं च वृथा जातं विना कामेन शंकर । अयशो दहते मह्यं रतिः सा विधेवति च सर्वदेवेषु मान्यश्च त्रैलोक्यजयकारकः । गजाननप्रसादेन बभूवानन्दनिर्वृतः जजाप परमं मन्त्रं सहस्रपरिवत्सरम् । तदन्ते पुरतोऽपश्यद् देवदेवं गजाननम्
tataste prārthayāmāsuḥ senānyaṃ praṇipatya ca | trailokyakaṃṭakaṃ deva jahi tvaṃ tārakāsuram evaṃ māsavrataṃ kuryāṃdyāvad bhādracaturthikā| tasyāṃ mahotsavaḥ kāryo yathāvibhavamādarāt 13|| pūrvoktena vidhānena pūjayed gaṇanāyakam | rātrau jāgaraṇaṃ kāryaṃ gītavāditrani:svanaiḥ lāvaṇyaṃ ca vṛthā jātaṃ vinā kāmena śaṃkara | ayaśo dahate mahyaṃ ratiḥ sā vidhevati ca sarvadeveṣu mānyaśca trailokyajayakārakaḥ | gajānanaprasādena babhūvānandanirvṛtaḥ jajāpa paramaṃ mantraṃ sahasraparivatsaram | tadante purato'paśyad devadevaṃ gajānanam
Then they, bowing down, entreated the general: "O god, slay Tāraka the demon, the thorn of the three worlds." Thus one should keep the monthly vow until the fourth of Bhādra; on that day a great festival should be held with care, according to one's means. By the rite stated before one should worship the Lord of Hosts; at night a vigil should be kept with the sounds of song and instruments. "And my beauty has become useless without Kāma, O Śaṅkara; disgrace burns me" — that Rati (spoke thus). And he is honoured among all the gods and brings victory over the three worlds; by Gajānana's grace he became content in bliss. He recited the supreme mantra for a thousand years; at the end of it he saw before him Gajānana, God of gods.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.15
नानाभिषेकसम्भारैः सेनापत्येऽभिषिच्य तम् । वैदिकै स्तान्त्रिकैर्मन्त्रैर्नानामुनिसमीरितैः पुराणश्रवणैरन्यैर्नानाख्यानवरैरपि । सहस्रनाममन्त्रेण स्तुवीत द्विरदाननम् । प्रभाते विमलं स्नात्वा पूजयेद् द्विरदाननम् भर्तुदानेन देवेश मां जीवय दयानिधे। एवं तया प्रार्थितोऽसौ शंकरो लोकशंकरः रुक्मिणिप्रभृतिस्त्रीभिर्दृष्टः कृष्ण इवापरः । तत उत्थाय याताभिर्लज्जिताभिः समन्ततः सिंहारूढं त्रिनेत्रं दशभुजमुरगं कुंडले चांगदे च । मुक्तामालां वहंतं सुललितमुकुटं रत्नमुद्राक्षसूत्रम् । नानादेवर्षिवृन्दैरनुगतमनिशं वक्रतुण्डं गजास्यं । भक्तेच्छोपात्तदेहं सुरनरपरदं चिन्तयेदेकदन्तम्
nānābhiṣekasambhāraiḥ senāpatye'bhiṣicya tam | vaidikai stāntrikairmantrairnānāmunisamīritaiḥ purāṇaśravaṇairanyairnānākhyānavarairapi | sahasranāmamantreṇa stuvīta dviradānanam | prabhāte vimalaṃ snātvā pūjayed dviradānanam bhartudānena deveśa māṃ jīvaya dayānidhe| evaṃ tayā prārthito'sau śaṃkaro lokaśaṃkaraḥ rukmiṇiprabhṛtistrībhirdṛṣṭaḥ kṛṣṇa ivāparaḥ | tata utthāya yātābhirlajjitābhiḥ samantataḥ siṃhārūḍhaṃ trinetraṃ daśabhujamuragaṃ kuṃḍale cāṃgade ca | muktāmālāṃ vahaṃtaṃ sulalitamukuṭaṃ ratnamudrākṣasūtram | nānādevarṣivṛndairanugatamaniśaṃ vakratuṇḍaṃ gajāsyaṃ | bhaktecchopāttadehaṃ suranaraparadaṃ cintayedekadantam
With various materials for the consecration they consecrated him into the office of general, with Vedic and Tantric mantras uttered by many sages, and with recitations of Purāṇas and other excellent tales; one should praise the two-tusked one with the thousand-name mantra; at dawn, having bathed clean, one should worship the two-tusked one. "By the gift of my husband, O lord of gods, revive me, treasury of compassion." Thus entreated by her, that Śaṅkara, benefactor of the world... He was seen by Rukmiṇī and the other women as though a second Kṛṣṇa; then, when they had risen and gone away ashamed on every side... Mounted on a lion, three-eyed, ten-armed, serpent-(bearing), with earrings and armlets, wearing a pearl garland, a most graceful crown, a jewelled ring and a rosary, followed unceasingly by throngs of gods and sages, curved-trunked, elephant-faced, taking on a body at his devotees' wish, granting the highest to gods and men — thus should one contemplate the one-tusked.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.16
ततोऽनुज्ञां गृहीत्वा ते देवाः स्वस्थानमागमन् । ऋषयोऽपि निरुद्योगा स्पतस्तेषु यथां पुरा ब्राह्मणान् भोजयेद् भक्त्या शतं चैवैकविंशतिम् । गोभूकांचन वस्त्राणि भूषणानि धनानि च उवाच श्लक्ष्णया वाचा हर्षयन् कामयोषितम् । शिव उवाच । चिन्ता मां कुरु कल्याणि न लज्जां कर्तुमर्हसि बुद्ध्वा पुत्रं नारदस्य वाक्येन मुमुदुश्च ताः। आलिलिंगुस्तमभ्येत्य प्रणनाम रतिश्च ताः एवं गजाननस्तस्य दर्शनार्थं समाययौ । सिद्धिबुद्धियुतस्तादृग यादृग् ध्यातोऽहिनापुरा
tato'nujñāṃ gṛhītvā te devāḥ svasthānamāgaman | ṛṣayo'pi nirudyogā spatasteṣu yathāṃ purā brāhmaṇān bhojayed bhaktyā śataṃ caivaikaviṃśatim | gobhūkāṃcana vastrāṇi bhūṣaṇāni dhanāni ca uvāca ślakṣṇayā vācā harṣayan kāmayoṣitam | śiva uvāca | cintā māṃ kuru kalyāṇi na lajjāṃ kartumarhasi buddhvā putraṃ nāradasya vākyena mumuduśca tāḥ| āliliṃgustamabhyetya praṇanāma ratiśca tāḥ evaṃ gajānanastasya darśanārthaṃ samāyayau | siddhibuddhiyutastādṛga yādṛg dhyāto'hināpurā
Then, having taken leave, those gods went to their own places; the sages too, free of effort, (settled) among them as before. One should devoutly feed a hundred and twenty-one brahmins, (and give) cows, land, gold, garments, ornaments and wealth. He spoke with smooth words, gladdening Kāma's wife. Śiva said: Do not worry, blessed lady; you should not be ashamed. And having recognized (him as their) son through Nārada's words, they rejoiced; approaching, they embraced him, and Rati bowed to them. Thus Gajānana came to give him his sight, accompanied by Siddhi and Buddhi, just such as the serpent had meditated on him before.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.17
सेनान्यां विद्यमाने नो न भयं विद्यते क्वचित् । स बालो ववृधेऽत्यन्तं शुक्लपक्षे यथा शशी तेभ्यो दद्याद्यथाशक्ति दीनान्धकृपणेषु च । अशक्तौ भोजयेदेकं विंशत्येकं तु वाडवान् स्मृतमात्रस्त्वया बाले कामः स्याद् दृष्टिगोचरः। मनसा चिन्तितो वापि मनोभूरिति संज्ञितः सर्वा पुरी हर्षयुता तस्मिंज्ञाते बभूव सा । क उवाच । एवं जनस्थानगत गणेशस्य महामुने सहस्रसूर्य सदृशो दीप्त्याक्रान्त दिगन्तरः । तेजसा तस्य शेषोऽपि धर्षितोऽन्ध इवाभवत्
senānyāṃ vidyamāne no na bhayaṃ vidyate kvacit | sa bālo vavṛdhe'tyantaṃ śuklapakṣe yathā śaśī tebhyo dadyādyathāśakti dīnāndhakṛpaṇeṣu ca | aśaktau bhojayedekaṃ viṃśatyekaṃ tu vāḍavān smṛtamātrastvayā bāle kāmaḥ syād dṛṣṭigocaraḥ| manasā cintito vāpi manobhūriti saṃjñitaḥ sarvā purī harṣayutā tasmiṃjñāte babhūva sā | ka uvāca | evaṃ janasthānagata gaṇeśasya mahāmune sahasrasūrya sadṛśo dīptyākrānta digantaraḥ | tejasā tasya śeṣo'pi dharṣito'ndha ivābhavat
"While the general exists, no fear exists for us anywhere." That boy grew exceedingly, like the moon in the bright fortnight. To them one should give according to one's ability, and also to the poor, the blind and the wretched; if unable, one should feed one brahmin, or twenty-one. "As soon as he is remembered by you, girl, Kāma will come within your sight; even if merely thought of in the mind, he is named Manobhū." That whole city became filled with joy when he was recognized. Ka said: Thus, O great sage, when Gaṇeśa had gone to Janasthāna — like a thousand suns, the quarters overrun by his blaze — by his radiance even Śeṣa was overwhelmed and became as if blind.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.18
एकदा बालभावात्स उड्डीय शशिनं ययौ। गृहीतुं ब्रह्मणाऽवारि नेदृशं साहसं कुरु ब्राह्मणाय प्रदातव्या मूर्तिश्चेद्धातुनिर्मिताः । अन्यथा परमोत्साहैर्जलमध्ये विसर्जयेत् पूरयिष्यति ते कामान् मान्या त्वं च भविष्यसि । विष्णोः सकाशादुत्पत्तिं रमायां प्राप्स्यते यदा महिमा कथितो यत्र रामेणाच्छेदि नासिका । शूपणख्या स्नतस्तत्तु नाम्ना ख्यातं तु नासिकम् चकम्पे भयसंविग्नो व्यग्रचित्तोऽतिविह्वलः । स्वस्थो मुहूर्तमात्रेण चिन्तयामास चेतसि
ekadā bālabhāvātsa uḍḍīya śaśinaṃ yayau| gṛhītuṃ brahmaṇā'vāri nedṛśaṃ sāhasaṃ kuru brāhmaṇāya pradātavyā mūrtiśceddhātunirmitāḥ | anyathā paramotsāhairjalamadhye visarjayet pūrayiṣyati te kāmān mānyā tvaṃ ca bhaviṣyasi | viṣṇoḥ sakāśādutpattiṃ ramāyāṃ prāpsyate yadā mahimā kathito yatra rāmeṇācchedi nāsikā | śūpaṇakhyā snatastattu nāmnā khyātaṃ tu nāsikam cakampe bhayasaṃvigno vyagracitto'tivihvalaḥ | svastho muhūrtamātreṇa cintayāmāsa cetasi
Once, out of childishness, he flew up and went to seize the moon; he was stopped by Brahmā: "Do not do such a rash thing!" If images made of metal are made, they should be given to a Brahmin; otherwise, with the greatest zeal, one should release (them) into the water. "(He) will fulfil your desires, and you too will become honoured. When (he) obtains birth from Viṣṇu in Ramā—" Where the greatness (of the place) was told, where Rāma cut off the nose of Śūrpaṇakhā—from that it is famed by the name Nāsika. He trembled, shaken with fear, his mind distracted, utterly overwhelmed; recovering himself in but a moment, he pondered in his mind.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.19
बुद्ध्या बृहस्पति शक्त्या जिगायेन्द्रं च सोऽर्भकः । एकदा सुखमासीनं पार्वत्या सहितं शिवम् दिव्यवादित्रनिर्घोषैर्नरयानस्थितां च ताम् । छत्रध्वजपताकाभिर्वेदगीतादिनिःस्वनैः भर्ता तव जने ख्यातो नाम्ना प्रद्युम्नसंज्ञितः । भविष्यति महाभागे गच्छेदानीं निजालयम् तत्राद्यापि हि दृश्यन्त उपला मोदका इव । एवं नाराधितस्तेन कामेनासौ गजाननः किमिदं तेज आयातं प्रलयानलसन्निभम् । तच्चेद्दहेत सर्वलोकानिदं मामेव धक्ष्यति
buddhyā bṛhaspati śaktyā jigāyendraṃ ca so'rbhakaḥ | ekadā sukhamāsīnaṃ pārvatyā sahitaṃ śivam divyavāditranirghoṣairnarayānasthitāṃ ca tām | chatradhvajapatākābhirvedagītādiniḥsvanaiḥ bhartā tava jane khyāto nāmnā pradyumnasaṃjñitaḥ | bhaviṣyati mahābhāge gacchedānīṃ nijālayam tatrādyāpi hi dṛśyanta upalā modakā iva | evaṃ nārādhitastena kāmenāsau gajānanaḥ kimidaṃ teja āyātaṃ pralayānalasannibham | tacceddaheta sarvalokānidaṃ māmeva dhakṣyati
That child conquered Bṛhaspati in intelligence and Indra in power. Once, Śiva was sitting at ease together with Pārvatī... and her, seated on a human-borne palanquin, with the noise of divine musical instruments, with parasols, banners and flags, with the sounds of Vedic chanting and song. "Your husband will be known among men by the name Pradyumna, O greatly fortunate one; go now to your own home." There even today stones are seen that look like modaka sweets. Thus was that Elephant-faced one worshipped by Kāma. "What is this radiance that has come, like the fire of the world's dissolution? If it should burn all the worlds, it will burn up me alone."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.21
सर्वसिद्धिकरं देव पुत्रसंपत् प्रवर्धनम् । सर्वपापहरं चैव धर्मार्थकाममोक्षदम् सर्वान् कामानवाप्यैव गाणेशं पदमाप्नुयात् । ब्रह्मणाऽकारि सृष्टयर्थं एकार्णं जपता मनुम् । प्रत्यक्षो विकटस्तस्य सामर्थ्यं विविधं ददौ ईश्वरेच्छा वशात्तस्याः प्रत्यक्षं समजायत । इतिश्चाश्चर्ययुक्ता सा जहृषे पतिना सह व्यास उवाच । कथमाराधितो ब्रह्मन् शेषेणासौ गजाननः । किमर्थं किं च तेनाप्तं सुप्रसन्नाद् गजाननात् एवं चिन्तातुरे तस्मिन्नुवाच द्विरदानन । मा भैः कुतर्ककुशल वरदोऽहं समागतः
sarvasiddhikaraṃ deva putrasaṃpat pravardhanam | sarvapāpaharaṃ caiva dharmārthakāmamokṣadam sarvān kāmānavāpyaiva gāṇeśaṃ padamāpnuyāt | brahmaṇā'kāri sṛṣṭayarthaṃ ekārṇaṃ japatā manum | pratyakṣo vikaṭastasya sāmarthyaṃ vividhaṃ dadau īśvarecchā vaśāttasyāḥ pratyakṣaṃ samajāyata | itiścāścaryayuktā sā jahṛṣe patinā saha vyāsa uvāca | kathamārādhito brahman śeṣeṇāsau gajānanaḥ | kimarthaṃ kiṃ ca tenāptaṃ suprasannād gajānanāt evaṃ cintāture tasminnuvāca dviradānana | mā bhaiḥ kutarkakuśala varado'haṃ samāgataḥ
"(This vow), O god, brings about all attainments, increases the wealth of sons, removes all sins, and gives dharma, wealth, pleasure and liberation. Having obtained all desires, one would attain the state of Gaṇeśa." It was performed by Brahmā for the sake of creation, while he recited the one-syllable mantra; Vikaṭa (Gaṇeśa) became manifest to him and gave him manifold power. By the force of the Lord's will, (the god) became manifest to her; and she, filled with wonder at this, rejoiced together with her husband. Vyāsa said: "How, O Brahman, was that Elephant-faced one worshipped by Śeṣa? For what purpose, and what was obtained by him from the well-pleased Elephant-faced one?" While he was thus afflicted with anxiety, the Two-tusked one said: "Do not fear, O you who are skilled in false reasoning; I have come as a giver of boons."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.22
त्रैलोक्यस्य गुरोस्त्वत्तस्तृप्तिर्नास्ति तथापि मे । वद मे सर्वशत्रूणां जयकारि व्रतं शुभमि विष्णुनाऽप्रापि शक्तिश्च पालने कुर्वता व्रतम् । षडक्षरं महामन्त्रं जपता परमाद्भुतम ततोऽनंगो ययौ शंम्भुं प्रणम्याभिदधे वचः । अनंग उवाच । विनाऽपराधं देवेश गमितोऽनंगतां कथम् एतत् सविस्तरं ब्रूहि पृच्छतश्चतुरानन । प्रष्टुः श्रोतुश्च वक्तुश्च यतः पुण्यं विवर्धते यं ध्यायसि दिवारात्रौ वृणु यत्ते हृदि स्थितम् । अहमेव जगत्कर्ता पाता हर्ताऽखिलेश्वर
trailokyasya gurostvattastṛptirnāsti tathāpi me | vada me sarvaśatrūṇāṃ jayakāri vrataṃ śubhami viṣṇunā'prāpi śaktiśca pālane kurvatā vratam | ṣaḍakṣaraṃ mahāmantraṃ japatā paramādbhutama tato'naṃgo yayau śaṃmbhuṃ praṇamyābhidadhe vacaḥ | anaṃga uvāca | vinā'parādhaṃ deveśa gamito'naṃgatāṃ katham etat savistaraṃ brūhi pṛcchataścaturānana | praṣṭuḥ śrotuśca vaktuśca yataḥ puṇyaṃ vivardhate yaṃ dhyāyasi divārātrau vṛṇu yatte hṛdi sthitam | ahameva jagatkartā pātā hartā'khileśvara
"From you, the teacher of the three worlds, there is no satiety for me; nevertheless, tell me the auspicious vow that brings victory over all enemies." And power was obtained by Viṣṇu, who performed the vow while reciting the most wonderful six-syllabled great mantra. Then Anaṅga (the bodiless Kāma) went to Śambhu and, having bowed, spoke these words. Anaṅga said: "O lord of gods, without any offence, how was I reduced to bodilessness? Tell this in full to me who ask, O four-faced one—since merit increases for the asker, the hearer, and the speaker." "Whatever you meditate on day and night, choose it—whatever stands in your heart. I alone am the maker, protector and destroyer of the world, the lord of all."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.23
ईश्वर उवाच । सम्यक्पृष्टं त्वया स्कन्द सर्वलोकोपकारकम् । व्रतं तेऽहं प्रवक्ष्यामि सर्वसिद्धिकरं नृणाम् स्वेच्छावतारसामर्थ्यं ततः प्राप्तं षडानन । मयाऽप्यकारि पुत्रैतज्जपताऽष्टाक्षरं मनुम् इन्द्रादिदेवतावृन्दैस्तारकासुर पीडितः। मुनिभिश्च विशाखस्य त्वत्त उत्पत्तिवेदिभिः ब्रह्मोवाच । सम्यक्पृष्टं त्वया ब्रह्मन् कथयामि कथामृतम् । शृणुष्वावहितो भूत्वा सर्वं सत्यवती सुत मत्तेजसा भाति चन्द्रो वह्निः सूर्यश्च भानि च । परब्रह्मस्वरूपोऽपि तपसा तव तोषितः
īśvara uvāca | samyakpṛṣṭaṃ tvayā skanda sarvalokopakārakam | vrataṃ te'haṃ pravakṣyāmi sarvasiddhikaraṃ nṛṇām svecchāvatārasāmarthyaṃ tataḥ prāptaṃ ṣaḍānana | mayā'pyakāri putraitajjapatā'ṣṭākṣaraṃ manum indrādidevatāvṛndaistārakāsura pīḍitaḥ| munibhiśca viśākhasya tvatta utpattivedibhiḥ brahmovāca | samyakpṛṣṭaṃ tvayā brahman kathayāmi kathāmṛtam | śṛṇuṣvāvahito bhūtvā sarvaṃ satyavatī suta mattejasā bhāti candro vahniḥ sūryaśca bhāni ca | parabrahmasvarūpo'pi tapasā tava toṣitaḥ
Īśvara said: "Well have you asked, Skanda, in a way that benefits all the worlds; I shall declare to you the vow that brings all attainments to men." "Thence, O six-faced one, was obtained the power of incarnating at will. By me too, my son, was this done, reciting the eight-syllabled mantra." (He was) tormented by the hosts of gods headed by Indra, and by the Tāraka demon, and by the sages who knew of the birth of Viśākha from you. Brahmā said: "Well have you asked, O Brahman; I shall tell the nectar of the tale. Listen attentively to it all, O son of Satyavatī." "By my radiance the moon shines, and fire, and the sun, and the stars; though I am of the nature of the supreme Brahman, I have been pleased by your austerity."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.24
सर्वपापक्षयकरं धर्मार्थकाममोक्षदम् । सर्वशत्रुक्षयकरं पुत्रसंपत् प्रवर्धनम् वृत्रं च शम्बरं दैत्यं शक्रेण मदनेन च । जिघांसताऽकारि व्रतं तौ तौ जेतुं च शेकतुः प्रार्थितस्तव निष्ठाया भंगं कर्तुमहं विभो । उपकाराय सर्वेषामकार्ष कर्म तादृशम् कस्मिंश्चित्समये शम्भुः पार्वत्या सहितो मुने । सुखासीनो गिरिवरे रम्यसानुशिलोच्चये अविर्भूतो वरं दातुं लोकोपकृतयेऽपि च । त्वं तु मत्तो वरान्ब्रूहि यान्यान् कामयसेऽखिलान्
sarvapāpakṣayakaraṃ dharmārthakāmamokṣadam | sarvaśatrukṣayakaraṃ putrasaṃpat pravardhanam vṛtraṃ ca śambaraṃ daityaṃ śakreṇa madanena ca | jighāṃsatā'kāri vrataṃ tau tau jetuṃ ca śekatuḥ prārthitastava niṣṭhāyā bhaṃgaṃ kartumahaṃ vibho | upakārāya sarveṣāmakārṣa karma tādṛśam kasmiṃścitsamaye śambhuḥ pārvatyā sahito mune | sukhāsīno girivare ramyasānuśiloccaye avirbhūto varaṃ dātuṃ lokopakṛtaye'pi ca | tvaṃ tu matto varānbrūhi yānyān kāmayase'khilān
"(The vow) destroys all sins, gives dharma, wealth, pleasure and liberation, destroys all enemies, and increases the wealth of sons." The vow was performed by Śakra wishing to slay Vṛtra, and by Madana (wishing to slay) the demon Śambara, and both were able to conquer (them). "I was requested to break your steadfastness, O lord; for the benefit of all I did such a deed." At a certain time Śambhu, together with Pārvatī, O sage, was sitting at ease on a fine mountain with its delightful slopes and heaps of rock. "(I) have appeared in order to give a boon and also for the benefit of the world; so tell me the boons—whatever and all that you desire—from me."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.25
अलक्ष्मीसंकटहरं गणनाथस्य तोषकृत । यः करोति नरो भक्त्या सपूज्यस्त्रिदशैरपि नानासामर्थ्यवानस्मि संहरामि जगत् त्रयम् । यक्षगन्धर्वमुनिभिः किन्नरोरगराक्षसैः । अकारि स्वेष्टसिद्ध्यर्थं सिद्धचारणमानवैः उपकारसमं पुण्यं न चास्ति भुवनत्रये । विपरीतं तु तज्जातं मम दैवाद् सुरेश्वर नानाद्रुमलताकीर्णे निर्झरारावशब्दिते । गुञ्जन्ति भ्रमरा यत्र रुक्मपंकजवासिनः शेष उवाच । तेजसा धर्षितो देव द्रष्टुं वक्तुं च नोत्सहे । अनुग्रहश्च पूर्णस्ते मयि सौम्यो भवानघ
alakṣmīsaṃkaṭaharaṃ gaṇanāthasya toṣakṛta | yaḥ karoti naro bhaktyā sapūjyastridaśairapi nānāsāmarthyavānasmi saṃharāmi jagat trayam | yakṣagandharvamunibhiḥ kinnaroragarākṣasaiḥ | akāri sveṣṭasiddhyarthaṃ siddhacāraṇamānavaiḥ upakārasamaṃ puṇyaṃ na cāsti bhuvanatraye | viparītaṃ tu tajjātaṃ mama daivād sureśvara nānādrumalatākīrṇe nirjharārāvaśabdite | guñjanti bhramarā yatra rukmapaṃkajavāsinaḥ śeṣa uvāca | tejasā dharṣito deva draṣṭuṃ vaktuṃ ca notsahe | anugrahaśca pūrṇaste mayi saumyo bhavānagha
"(The vow) removes misfortune and distress and pleases the Lord of Hosts; the man who performs it with devotion is worthy of worship even by the gods." "I possess manifold powers; I destroy the three worlds." It was performed for the accomplishment of their own desires by Yakṣas, Gandharvas and sages, by Kinnaras, serpents and Rākṣasas, by Siddhas, Cāraṇas and men. "There is no merit in the three worlds equal to doing a benefit; yet by fate the opposite of that has happened to me, O lord of gods." (In a place) covered with various trees and creepers, resounding with the noise of waterfalls, where bees hum, dwelling in golden lotuses—Śeṣa said: "Overpowered by your radiance, O god, I have no strength to look or to speak; and your grace toward me is complete—be gentle toward me, O sinless one."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.26
इच्छाविहारी भवति सृष्टिस्थित्यन्तकृच्च सः । दर्शनात्तस्य चान्येषां महापापं लयं व्रजेत् एतत्त्वं स्कन्द वरदचतुर्थीव्रतमाचर । भविष्यसि रणेऽजेयो विख्यातो भुवनत्रये त्रयस्त्रिंशत्कोटिदेवेष्वहं चारुतरः पुरा। उपमा चारुपुरुषे ममैव दीयतेऽखिलैः चम्पकाशोक बकुल मालती कुसुमानिलः । आनन्दयति चित्तानि वसतां यस्य शेखरे क उवाच । एवं संप्रार्थितस्तेन करुणाब्धिर्गजाननः । अभवत् कोटिचन्द्राभः सौम्यतेजाः सुरेश्वर
icchāvihārī bhavati sṛṣṭisthityantakṛcca saḥ | darśanāttasya cānyeṣāṃ mahāpāpaṃ layaṃ vrajet etattvaṃ skanda varadacaturthīvratamācara | bhaviṣyasi raṇe'jeyo vikhyāto bhuvanatraye trayastriṃśatkoṭideveṣvahaṃ cārutaraḥ purā| upamā cārupuruṣe mamaiva dīyate'khilaiḥ campakāśoka bakula mālatī kusumānilaḥ | ānandayati cittāni vasatāṃ yasya śekhare ka uvāca | evaṃ saṃprārthitastena karuṇābdhirgajānanaḥ | abhavat koṭicandrābhaḥ saumyatejāḥ sureśvara
"He moves about at will and is the maker of creation, preservation and destruction; and by the sight of him the great sin of others goes to dissolution. Practise this vow, Skanda, of the boon-giving Caturthī; you will become unconquerable in battle and famed in the three worlds." "Formerly I was the most beautiful among the thirty-three crores of gods; the comparison for a beautiful man is given by all to me alone." The breeze bearing the flowers of campaka, aśoka, bakula and mālatī gladdens the minds of those who dwell on its summit. Ka (Brahmā) said: "Thus entreated by him, the Elephant-faced one, an ocean of compassion, became of the radiance of a crore of moons, gentle in his brilliance, O lord of gods."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.27
नात्येषां स्कन्द वरद चतुर्थी व्रतसाम्यता । एवमाकर्ण्य वचनं सेनानीः शंकरेरितम् षडक्षरं च मन्त्रं ते ददामि वरदस्य ह। ब्रह्मोवाच । सुमुहूर्ते ददौ तस्मै शिवो दीक्षां षडक्षरीम् कथं तिष्ठामि देवेश स्वांगहीनः परेतवत् । अतो मयि महादेव कृपयाऽनुग्रहं कुरु आययुस्तत्र गन्धर्वा अप्सरो यक्ष किन्नराः । देवाश्च मुनयो नागास्तं दृष्टुं गिरिजापतिम् ततो वव्रे वरान् शेषो नत्वा स्तुत्वाऽखिलेश्वरः । अनादिनिधनं देव वन्देऽहं गणनायकम्
nātyeṣāṃ skanda varada caturthī vratasāmyatā | evamākarṇya vacanaṃ senānīḥ śaṃkareritam ṣaḍakṣaraṃ ca mantraṃ te dadāmi varadasya ha| brahmovāca | sumuhūrte dadau tasmai śivo dīkṣāṃ ṣaḍakṣarīm kathaṃ tiṣṭhāmi deveśa svāṃgahīnaḥ paretavat | ato mayi mahādeva kṛpayā'nugrahaṃ kuru āyayustatra gandharvā apsaro yakṣa kinnarāḥ | devāśca munayo nāgāstaṃ dṛṣṭuṃ girijāpatim tato vavre varān śeṣo natvā stutvā'khileśvaraḥ | anādinidhanaṃ deva vande'haṃ gaṇanāyakam
"There is nothing equal to these, Skanda, to the boon-giving Caturthī vow." Having thus heard the words spoken by Śaṅkara, the commander of the army (Skanda)... "And I give you the six-syllabled mantra of the boon-giver." Brahmā said: "At an auspicious moment Śiva gave him the six-syllabled initiation." "How shall I remain, O lord of gods, deprived of my own body, like a corpse? Therefore, O Mahādeva, show me favour with compassion." Gandharvas, Apsarases, Yakṣas and Kinnaras came there, and gods and sages and Nāgas, to see him, the husband of the Mountain's daughter. Then Śeṣa, having bowed and praised the Lord of all, chose boons: "I revere you, O god, leader of the hosts, without beginning or end."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.28
पुनः पप्रच्छ पितरं महिमानं व्रतस्य सः । स्कन्द उवाच । विस्तरेण मम ब्रूहि माहात्म्यं व्रतसम्भवम् तदैव स ययौ स्कन्दस्तपस्तप्तुं द्विजोत्तम । सुनिर्मलतरे देशे वृक्षवल्लीसमाकुले ब्रह्मोवाच । तत एकाक्षरं मन्त्रं गणेशस्य ददौ शिवः । अनंगाय प्रणमतेऽनुष्ठानं चादिशच्च तम्। केचित्तं प्रणिपातेन साष्टांगेनाभ्यवादयन् । उच्चैर्जगुश्च गन्धर्वा ननृतुश्चाप्सरोगणाः सर्वव्यापिनमीशानं जगत्कारणकारणम्। सर्वस्वरुपं विश्वेशं विश्ववन्द्यं नमाम्यहम्
punaḥ papraccha pitaraṃ mahimānaṃ vratasya saḥ | skanda uvāca | vistareṇa mama brūhi māhātmyaṃ vratasambhavam tadaiva sa yayau skandastapastaptuṃ dvijottama | sunirmalatare deśe vṛkṣavallīsamākule brahmovāca | tata ekākṣaraṃ mantraṃ gaṇeśasya dadau śivaḥ | anaṃgāya praṇamate'nuṣṭhānaṃ cādiśacca tam| kecittaṃ praṇipātena sāṣṭāṃgenābhyavādayan | uccairjaguśca gandharvā nanṛtuścāpsarogaṇāḥ sarvavyāpinamīśānaṃ jagatkāraṇakāraṇam| sarvasvarupaṃ viśveśaṃ viśvavandyaṃ namāmyaham
He asked his father again about the greatness of the vow. Skanda said: "Tell me at length the glory arising from the vow." At that very moment Skanda went to perform austerity, O best of the twice-born, in a very pure region thick with trees and creepers. Brahmā said: "Then Śiva gave the one-syllabled mantra of Gaṇeśa to Anaṅga, who bowed, and instructed him in its practice." Some saluted him with prostration touching all eight limbs; and the Gandharvas sang aloud and the hosts of Apsarases danced. "I bow to the all-pervading Lord, the cause of the cause of the world, of the form of all, lord of the universe, worshipped by the universe."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.29
कस्मिन्मासि दिने चास्य प्रारम्भः क्रियते हर । को विधिः किं फलं चास्य कस्याऽभूत् प्रत्ययोऽस्य च बहुमूलफले रम्ये सरोवापीसुशोभिते । एकपादस्थितः स्कन्दस्तपस्तेपे सुदारुणम् ततोऽनंगो ययौ रम्यं जनस्थानं सुसिद्धिदम्। तत्रानुष्ठानमकरोदनंगः शंकराज्ञया पुपूजुस्तं दशभुजं व्याघ्राजिनधरं हरमि । नन्दिर्भृंगिगणाकीर्णं भालचन्द्रत्रिशूलिनम् गजाननं गणाध्यक्षं गरूडेशस्तु तं विभुम् । गुणाधीशं गुणातीतं गणाधीशं नमाम्यहम्
kasminmāsi dine cāsya prārambhaḥ kriyate hara | ko vidhiḥ kiṃ phalaṃ cāsya kasyā'bhūt pratyayo'sya ca bahumūlaphale ramye sarovāpīsuśobhite | ekapādasthitaḥ skandastapastepe sudāruṇam tato'naṃgo yayau ramyaṃ janasthānaṃ susiddhidam| tatrānuṣṭhānamakarodanaṃgaḥ śaṃkarājñayā pupūjustaṃ daśabhujaṃ vyāghrājinadharaṃ harami | nandirbhṛṃgigaṇākīrṇaṃ bhālacandratriśūlinam gajānanaṃ gaṇādhyakṣaṃ garūḍeśastu taṃ vibhum | guṇādhīśaṃ guṇātītaṃ gaṇādhīśaṃ namāmyaham
"In what month and on what day is its commencement made, O Hara? What is its procedure, what its fruit, and who had experience of it?" In a delightful place abounding in roots and fruits, adorned with lakes and ponds, Skanda, standing on one foot, performed very severe austerity. Then Anaṅga went to the delightful Janasthāna, the giver of good attainment; there Anaṅga carried out the observance by Śaṅkara's command. They worshipped Hara, the ten-armed, wearer of the tiger-skin, surrounded by the hosts of Nandin and Bhṛṅgin, moon-browed, trident-bearing—the Elephant-faced lord of the hosts; but the lord of Garuḍa (worshipped) him thus: "I bow to the lord of the guṇas, who transcends the guṇas, the lord of the hosts."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.31
प्रसन्नोऽभूत्तदैवास्य परमात्मा गजाननः । दर्शयामास सेनान्ये योगिध्येयमनुत्तमम् वायुमात्राशनो नित्यं सदा रति सहायवान् । ततः प्रसन्नो भगवान् देवदेवो गजाननः निमील्य नयने तस्थुः केचिद् ध्यानपरायणाः । वसिष्ठो वामदेवश्च जमदग्निस्त्रितो द्विजः सर्वविघ्नहरं देवं नमामि गणनायकम् । क उवाच । एवं स्तुत्वा तु देवेशं वरदं द्विरदानननम्
prasanno'bhūttadaivāsya paramātmā gajānanaḥ | darśayāmāsa senānye yogidhyeyamanuttamam vāyumātrāśano nityaṃ sadā rati sahāyavān | tataḥ prasanno bhagavān devadevo gajānanaḥ nimīlya nayane tasthuḥ kecid dhyānaparāyaṇāḥ | vasiṣṭho vāmadevaśca jamadagnistrito dvijaḥ sarvavighnaharaṃ devaṃ namāmi gaṇanāyakam | ka uvāca | evaṃ stutvā tu deveśaṃ varadaṃ dviradānananam
At that very time his supreme Self, the Elephant-faced one, became pleased, and showed to the commander of the army (that form) unsurpassed, to be meditated on by yogins. Feeding on air alone, always, ever accompanied by Rati—then the Lord, god of gods, the Elephant-faced one, became pleased. Some stood with eyes closed, intent on meditation: Vasiṣṭha and Vāmadeva, Jamadagni, the twice-born Trita— "I bow to the god, the leader of the hosts, remover of all obstacles." Ka (Brahmā) said: "Having thus praised the lord of gods, the boon-giving Two-tusked one..."
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GnP 1 86.32
निजं रूपं महातेजाश्चतुर्भुजविराजितम् । महामुकुट संशोभि कुंडलांगदशोभितम् आविरासीद्दशभुजो महामुकुटशोभितः । ज्वलद्रत्नप्रभाचारु कुंडलांगद मंडिताः अत्रिः कण्वो भरद्वाजो गौतमाद्या मुनीश्वराः । तुष्टुवुर्विविधैः स्तोत्रैस्तत्र तं पार्वतीपतिम् वरयामास यान् कामांस्तां शृणुष्व महामुने । शेष उवाच । अद्य धन्यं तपो ज्ञानं पिता माता जनुर्मम
nijaṃ rūpaṃ mahātejāścaturbhujavirājitam | mahāmukuṭa saṃśobhi kuṃḍalāṃgadaśobhitam āvirāsīddaśabhujo mahāmukuṭaśobhitaḥ | jvaladratnaprabhācāru kuṃḍalāṃgada maṃḍitāḥ atriḥ kaṇvo bharadvājo gautamādyā munīśvarāḥ | tuṣṭuvurvividhaiḥ stotraistatra taṃ pārvatīpatim varayāmāsa yān kāmāṃstāṃ śṛṇuṣva mahāmune | śeṣa uvāca | adya dhanyaṃ tapo jñānaṃ pitā mātā janurmama
His own form, of great radiance, resplendent with four arms, shining with a great crown, adorned with earrings and armlets—he became manifest, ten-armed, adorned with a great crown, decked with earrings and armlets lovely with the flashing lustre of jewels. Atri, Kaṇva, Bharadvāja, Gautama and the other lords of sages praised him there, the husband of Pārvatī, with various hymns. Hear, O great sage, those desires which he chose as boons. Śeṣa said: "Today my austerity, my knowledge, my father, my mother, my birth are blessed."
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GnP 1 86.33
एकदन्तं भालचन्द्रं शुण्डादण्डविराजितम् । पाशांकुशकरं माला दन्तहस्तं सुशोभनम् कोटिसूर्यप्रतीकाशो मुक्तामाला विभूषितः । दिव्यमाल्यांबरधरो दिव्यगन्धानुलेपनः स्तुवस्तु तेषु मुनिषु शेषो गर्वपरं ययौ । अहमेव श्रेष्ठतरो लोकेषु त्रिषु नापरः
ekadantaṃ bhālacandraṃ śuṇḍādaṇḍavirājitam | pāśāṃkuśakaraṃ mālā dantahastaṃ suśobhanam koṭisūryapratīkāśo muktāmālā vibhūṣitaḥ | divyamālyāṃbaradharo divyagandhānulepanaḥ stuvastu teṣu muniṣu śeṣo garvaparaṃ yayau | ahameva śreṣṭhataro lokeṣu triṣu nāparaḥ
(I bow to) the single-tusked, moon-browed one, resplendent with his trunk like a staff, holding noose and goad, with a garland and a tusk in his hands, most beautiful. Like a crore of suns, adorned with a pearl necklace, wearing divine garlands and garments, anointed with divine perfumes—but while those sages were praising him, Śeṣa fell into extreme pride: "I alone am the most excellent in the three worlds, no other."
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GnP 1 86.34
मुक्तामणिगणोपेतं सर्पराजयुतोदरम् । दिव्यवस्त्र परीधानं दिव्यगन्धानुलेपनम् सिन्दूरारुणशुंडास्यो दशायुधलसत्करः । शेषालंकृतनाभिश्च नानालंकारराजितः यतः श्रेष्ठतरः शम्भु स्तस्याहं शिरसि स्थितः । धराधरणसामर्थ्यं मयि नान्यत्र कुत्रचित् देहो नेत्राणि भूरीणि मस्तकानि बहूनि च । त्वां स्तोतुं संप्रवृत्ता या धन्यस्या रसना मम। कुलं शीलं च धन्यं मे त्वङ्घ्रियुगदर्शनात् । अखंडितं ते भजनं देहि मेऽखण्डविक्रम
muktāmaṇigaṇopetaṃ sarparājayutodaram | divyavastra parīdhānaṃ divyagandhānulepanam sindūrāruṇaśuṃḍāsyo daśāyudhalasatkaraḥ | śeṣālaṃkṛtanābhiśca nānālaṃkārarājitaḥ yataḥ śreṣṭhataraḥ śambhu stasyāhaṃ śirasi sthitaḥ | dharādharaṇasāmarthyaṃ mayi nānyatra kutracit deho netrāṇi bhūrīṇi mastakāni bahūni ca | tvāṃ stotuṃ saṃpravṛttā yā dhanyasyā rasanā mama| kulaṃ śīlaṃ ca dhanyaṃ me tvaṅghriyugadarśanāt | akhaṃḍitaṃ te bhajanaṃ dehi me'khaṇḍavikrama
(He was) endowed with a mass of pearls and gems, his belly girt with the king of serpents, clothed in divine cloth, anointed with divine perfumes; with trunk and face red with vermilion, his hands bright with ten weapons, his navel adorned with Śeṣa, resplendent with various ornaments. "Since Śambhu is the most excellent, and I abide on his head—the power to bear the earth is in me and nowhere else. I have many bodies, many eyes, and many heads." "Blessed is this tongue of mine, which has set about praising you; blessed are my family and my character, from seeing your two feet. Grant me unbroken devotion to you, O you of unbroken might."
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GnP 1 86.35
अनेकसूर्यसंकाशं तेजोज्वाला सुदीपितम् । ददर्श षण्मुखस्तत्र विस्मयोत्फुल्ललोचनः सिंहस्कन्धो महाश्रीमांश्चीत्कारत्रासिताखिलः । इन्द्रादयोपि मुनय आविर्भूते गजानने वासुके रज्जुभूतान्मत् कुलीनादमृतं सुरैः । प्राप्तं ततोऽमरत्वं च तस्मान्नान्योऽस्ति मत्परः दुःखं किं किं नु वक्तव्यं सर्वज्ञे त्वयि विघ्नराट् । अखर्वगर्वकरणात् स्फुटिता मस्तका मम
anekasūryasaṃkāśaṃ tejojvālā sudīpitam | dadarśa ṣaṇmukhastatra vismayotphullalocanaḥ siṃhaskandho mahāśrīmāṃścītkāratrāsitākhilaḥ | indrādayopi munaya āvirbhūte gajānane vāsuke rajjubhūtānmat kulīnādamṛtaṃ suraiḥ | prāptaṃ tato'maratvaṃ ca tasmānnānyo'sti matparaḥ duḥkhaṃ kiṃ kiṃ nu vaktavyaṃ sarvajñe tvayi vighnarāṭ | akharvagarvakaraṇāt sphuṭitā mastakā mama
The six-faced one saw there, with eyes wide open in wonder, (that form) resembling many suns, brightly blazing with flames of radiance, with shoulders like a lion's, of great splendour, terrifying all with its trumpeting. Even Indra and the others, and the sages, when the Elephant-faced one appeared... "By Vāsuki, who became the rope, one of my lineage, the nectar was obtained by the gods, and thence immortality; therefore there is no other superior to me." "What sorrow is there at all to be told to you, O king of obstacles, who know everything? Because of my making of unlittle pride, my heads have burst apart."
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GnP 1 86.36
व्याकुलीभूतचित्तोऽसौ किमेतदित्यचिन्तयत् । मया यच्चिन्त्यतेऽन्यद्वा तद्वा विन्द्यां न चाप्यहम् आययुरप्सरोभिश्च यक्षगन्धर्वकिन्नरैः । दिव्यवादित्रनिर्घोषैः पुपूजुस्ते गजाननम् तद्धृदिस्थं तदा गर्वं ज्ञात्वा शम्भू त्रिलोककृत् । विज्ञायाखिलदृक्तूष्णीमुत्तस्थौ सहसा शिवः महारुषा महेशेना स्फालितस्य महीतले। नारदस्य प्रसादेन दृष्टं ते चरणाम्बुजम् । इदानीं देव मे देहि श्रेष्ठतां भुवनत्रये
vyākulībhūtacitto'sau kimetadityacintayat | mayā yaccintyate'nyadvā tadvā vindyāṃ na cāpyaham āyayurapsarobhiśca yakṣagandharvakinnaraiḥ | divyavāditranirghoṣaiḥ pupūjuste gajānanam taddhṛdisthaṃ tadā garvaṃ jñātvā śambhū trilokakṛt | vijñāyākhiladṛktūṣṇīmuttasthau sahasā śivaḥ mahāruṣā maheśenā sphālitasya mahītale| nāradasya prasādena dṛṣṭaṃ te caraṇāmbujam | idānīṃ deva me dehi śreṣṭhatāṃ bhuvanatraye
With his mind grown agitated, he thought, "What is this? Whatever I think, or anything else—I cannot make it out." They came with the Apsarases, and with Yakṣas, Gandharvas and Kinnaras; with the sound of divine musical instruments they worshipped the Elephant-faced one. Then Śambhu, maker of the three worlds, knowing that pride abiding in his heart—the all-seeing one, having understood, rose up suddenly in silence. Of him who was struck down on the surface of the earth in great fury by Maheśa... "By Nārada's grace your lotus feet have been seen; now, O god, grant me the highest place in the three worlds."
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GnP 1 86.37
ततः पप्रच्छ तूष्णीं स को भवान्किं च नाम ते । गजानन उवाच । चिन्त्यते यो दिवारात्रौ त्वयैकाग्रेण चेतसा उपचारैः षोडशभिर्भक्त्या देवं पृथक्पृथक् । कामोऽपि तत उत्थाय प्रणिपत्याखिलान् सुरान् आस्फालयद्धरापृष्ठे शेषं तादृशगर्वितम् । एकैको मस्तकस्तस्य दशधा दशधाऽभवत् पाटवं सर्वशिरसि सामर्थ्यं धारणे भुवः। अचलं देहि मे स्थानं दर्शनं ते निरन्तरम्
tataḥ papraccha tūṣṇīṃ sa ko bhavānkiṃ ca nāma te | gajānana uvāca | cintyate yo divārātrau tvayaikāgreṇa cetasā upacāraiḥ ṣoḍaśabhirbhaktyā devaṃ pṛthakpṛthak | kāmo'pi tata utthāya praṇipatyākhilān surān āsphālayaddharāpṛṣṭhe śeṣaṃ tādṛśagarvitam | ekaiko mastakastasya daśadhā daśadhā'bhavat pāṭavaṃ sarvaśirasi sāmarthyaṃ dhāraṇe bhuvaḥ| acalaṃ dehi me sthānaṃ darśanaṃ te nirantaram
Then he asked in a low voice: "Who are you, and what is your name?" The Elephant-faced one said: "He who is thought upon day and night by you with a one-pointed mind..." With the sixteen services, with devotion, (they worshipped) the god each separately. Kāma too then rose and, having bowed to all the gods... He (Śiva) struck Śeṣa, so puffed up with pride, upon the surface of the earth; each single head of his became ten and tenfold. "Grant me skill in all my heads, power to bear the earth, an unshakable place, and unceasing sight of you."
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GnP 1 86.38
सोऽहं प्राप्तो वरं दातुं वद ते हृदि वांछितम् । ददामि तुष्टस्तपसा षडानन गजाननः ववन्दे देवचरणौ पूर्वं नत्वा मुनीनपि । प्रशशंस तदा देवं विकटं करुणाकरम् मूर्छितः प्रहरार्द्धं स गतप्राण इवाभवत् । ततः प्रभृत्यसौ जातः सहस्त्रफणिमंडितः सान्निध्यं शंकरस्यापि कुलश्रेठ्यं शिवे रतिम । गणपतिरुवाच। यदि ते दशधा जातो मस्तको भुजगाधिप
so'haṃ prāpto varaṃ dātuṃ vada te hṛdi vāṃchitam | dadāmi tuṣṭastapasā ṣaḍānana gajānanaḥ vavande devacaraṇau pūrvaṃ natvā munīnapi | praśaśaṃsa tadā devaṃ vikaṭaṃ karuṇākaram mūrchitaḥ praharārddhaṃ sa gataprāṇa ivābhavat | tataḥ prabhṛtyasau jātaḥ sahastraphaṇimaṃḍitaḥ sānnidhyaṃ śaṃkarasyāpi kulaśreṭhyaṃ śive ratima | gaṇapatiruvāca| yadi te daśadhā jāto mastako bhujagādhipa
"So I have come to give a boon; tell what is desired in your heart. Pleased by your austerity, I give it, O six-faced one." The Elephant-faced one—he (Skanda) revered the god's feet, first bowing also to the sages; then he praised the god Vikaṭa, the mine of compassion. He fainted for half a watch and became as if his life had gone; from then on he became adorned with a thousand hoods. "(Grant me) nearness to Śaṅkara too, pre-eminence in my family, and love for Śiva." Gaṇapati said: "Since your head has become tenfold, O lord of serpents..."
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GnP 1 86.39
स्कन्द उवाच । विदुर्न देवा न च शास्त्रकारा ब्रह्मादयः शेषमुखाश्च नागाः । तव स्वरूपं जगदीश सम्यक् ददर्शि तन्मे द्विरदाननाद्य काम उवाच । धन्यस्त्वमसि देवेषु परब्रह्मस्वरूपवान् । निराकारोऽपि साकारो जातोऽसि भक्तवत्सल जीवशेषः शुशोचाथ शेषोऽशेषाहि भूषणः । अलंकरण भूतोऽहं त्रैलोक्येश हरस्य ह तदा सहस्रवदनः सहस्रफणिमण्डितः । भविष्यसि जने ख्यातो यावच्चन्द्रार्कतारकाः
skanda uvāca | vidurna devā na ca śāstrakārā brahmādayaḥ śeṣamukhāśca nāgāḥ | tava svarūpaṃ jagadīśa samyak dadarśi tanme dviradānanādya kāma uvāca | dhanyastvamasi deveṣu parabrahmasvarūpavān | nirākāro'pi sākāro jāto'si bhaktavatsala jīvaśeṣaḥ śuśocātha śeṣo'śeṣāhi bhūṣaṇaḥ | alaṃkaraṇa bhūto'haṃ trailokyeśa harasya ha tadā sahasravadanaḥ sahasraphaṇimaṇḍitaḥ | bhaviṣyasi jane khyāto yāvaccandrārkatārakāḥ
Skanda said: "The gods do not know, nor the makers of the treatises, Brahmā and the rest, nor the Nāgas headed by Śeṣa, your true nature, O lord of the world; today, O Two-tusked one, that has been seen by me." Kāma said: "Blessed are you among the gods, possessing the nature of the supreme Brahman; though formless, you have become formed, O you who are fond of your devotees." Then Śeṣa, whose life barely remained, Śeṣa the ornament of all serpents, grieved: "I have been an ornament of Hara, O lord of the three worlds." "Then, thousand-faced, adorned with a thousand hoods, you will be famed among people as long as moon, sun and stars endure."
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GnP 1 86.41
अविस्मृतिः स्यात् तव पादपद्मे सर्वेषु देवेषु वरिष्ठता च कारणं सर्वसिद्धीनां धर्मार्थकाम मोक्षदम । धन्ये नेत्रयुगे मेऽद्य याभ्यां दृष्टः परः पुमान् किं करोमि क्व गच्छामि को मे त्राताऽधुना भवेत् । को मे निजपदं प्राप्तावुपायं कथयेच्छुभम् लप्स्यसे भुजगश्रेष्ठ मत्सान्निध्यं निरन्तरम् । अन्यत्ते वांछितं शेष तदशेषं भविष्यति
avismṛtiḥ syāt tava pādapadme sarveṣu deveṣu variṣṭhatā ca kāraṇaṃ sarvasiddhīnāṃ dharmārthakāma mokṣadama | dhanye netrayuge me'dya yābhyāṃ dṛṣṭaḥ paraḥ pumān kiṃ karomi kva gacchāmi ko me trātā'dhunā bhavet | ko me nijapadaṃ prāptāvupāyaṃ kathayecchubham lapsyase bhujagaśreṣṭha matsānnidhyaṃ nirantaram | anyatte vāṃchitaṃ śeṣa tadaśeṣaṃ bhaviṣyati
"May there be no forgetting of your lotus feet, and (may I have) pre-eminence among all the gods, (you who are) the cause of all attainments, giver of dharma, wealth, pleasure and liberation. Blessed are my two eyes today, by which the Supreme Person has been seen. What shall I do, where shall I go, who now would be my protector? Who would tell me the auspicious means for reaching my own state?" "You shall obtain, O best of serpents, my presence unceasingly; and whatever else you wish, O Śeṣa, that shall be entirely (fulfilled)."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 1 86.42
अलक्ष्यो लक्ष्यतां यातः ततो लक्षविनायकः । नाम्ना ख्यातो भवात्र त्वं भक्तकाम सुरद्रुमः । लक्ष उवाच । सर्वं तद्भविता स्कन्द यद्यत् प्राथितमद्य मे यं न जानन्ति वेदारताः सांख्याः पातंजलादयः । नेति नेत्यभवंस्तूष्णीं वेदोऽपि यत्र कुंठितः कौ वा मेऽपनयेद्दुःखमिति चिन्तापरस्तु सः । ददर्श तेन मार्गेण गच्छन्तं नारदं मुनिम् क उवाच । एवं वरान् ददौ तस्मै स्वोदरे तं बबन्ध ह । व्यालबद्धोदर इति नाम प्राप गजाननः
alakṣyo lakṣyatāṃ yātaḥ tato lakṣavināyakaḥ | nāmnā khyāto bhavātra tvaṃ bhaktakāma suradrumaḥ | lakṣa uvāca | sarvaṃ tadbhavitā skanda yadyat prāthitamadya me yaṃ na jānanti vedāratāḥ sāṃkhyāḥ pātaṃjalādayaḥ | neti netyabhavaṃstūṣṇīṃ vedo'pi yatra kuṃṭhitaḥ kau vā me'panayedduḥkhamiti cintāparastu saḥ | dadarśa tena mārgeṇa gacchantaṃ nāradaṃ munim ka uvāca | evaṃ varān dadau tasmai svodare taṃ babandha ha | vyālabaddhodara iti nāma prāpa gajānanaḥ
(Though) unperceivable, (he) came to be perceived; therefore be renowned here by the name Lakṣavināyaka, you who are the wish-granting tree of the gods, fond of devotees. Lakṣa said: All that shall come to pass, O Skanda, whatever has been requested by me today — (he) whom those devoted to the Veda do not know, nor the Sāṃkhyas, the followers of Patañjali and the rest; they fell silent with "not this, not this," where even the Veda is blunted. "Who, then, could remove my sorrow?" — thus absorbed in that thought, he saw the sage Nārada coming along that road. Ka said: Thus he gave him boons and bound him within his own belly; (hence) the elephant-faced one obtained the name Vyālabaddhodara ("he whose belly is bound with a serpent").
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.43
अविस्मृतिश्च सान्निध्यं चिन्त्यमानस्य मे भवेत् । पराजयो रिपूणां ते देवश्रैष्ठ्यं भविष्यति अनन्तकोटिब्रह्मांड रोमकूपोऽखिलेश्वरः । येन मन्त्रेण सोऽदर्शि मन्त्रो धन्यतरोऽपि सः जहर्ष किंचिन्नागेन्द्रः स्वप्नं प्राप्येव भिक्षुकः । अतिकष्टामवस्थां तां नारदोऽलोकयत्पुरः शेषस्य मस्तके हस्तमभयार्थं ददौ विभुः । स्वयं विराट्स्वरूपं स्वं शेषायादर्शयन् भुवा
avismṛtiśca sānnidhyaṃ cintyamānasya me bhavet | parājayo ripūṇāṃ te devaśraiṣṭhyaṃ bhaviṣyati anantakoṭibrahmāṃḍa romakūpo'khileśvaraḥ | yena mantreṇa so'darśi mantro dhanyataro'pi saḥ jaharṣa kiṃcinnāgendraḥ svapnaṃ prāpyeva bhikṣukaḥ | atikaṣṭāmavasthāṃ tāṃ nārado'lokayatpuraḥ śeṣasya mastake hastamabhayārthaṃ dadau vibhuḥ | svayaṃ virāṭsvarūpaṃ svaṃ śeṣāyādarśayan bhuvā
"And may there be no forgetting, and may (your) presence be (mine) when I meditate (on you); may there be defeat of your enemies and pre-eminence among the gods." The lord of all, whose pores are endless crores of universes — and that mantra by which he was seen is the more blessed. The lord of serpents rejoiced somewhat, like a beggar who has had a dream. Nārada beheld before him that most wretched condition. The Lord placed his hand on Śeṣa's head to grant fearlessness, and himself showed his own universal (virāṭ) form to Śeṣa along with the earth.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.44
ब्रह्मोवाच । एवं वरान् ददौ देवो मयूरं निजवाहनम्। ददौ स्कन्दाय सुप्रीतो विनयाच्च तपोबलात् गणेश उवाच । सम्यगुक्तं रतिपते न मां ब्रह्मादयो विदुः । यदा साकारतां यामि तेऽपि जानन्ति मां तदा निश्चेष्टं निरनुश्वासं ध्याननिष्ठं यथा मुनिम्। अशेष विषयज्ञोऽपि शेषं पप्रच्छ नारद : शब्देनापूरयद् व्योम भूतलं विदिशं दिशः । यस्य पादतले भूमिर्दिशः श्रोत्रेऽक्षिणी रविः
brahmovāca | evaṃ varān dadau devo mayūraṃ nijavāhanam| dadau skandāya suprīto vinayācca tapobalāt gaṇeśa uvāca | samyaguktaṃ ratipate na māṃ brahmādayo viduḥ | yadā sākāratāṃ yāmi te'pi jānanti māṃ tadā niśceṣṭaṃ niranuśvāsaṃ dhyānaniṣṭhaṃ yathā munim| aśeṣa viṣayajño'pi śeṣaṃ papraccha nārada : śabdenāpūrayad vyoma bhūtalaṃ vidiśaṃ diśaḥ | yasya pādatale bhūmirdiśaḥ śrotre'kṣiṇī raviḥ
Brahmā said: Thus the god gave boons, and well pleased he gave to Skanda his own vehicle, the peacock, because of (Skanda's) modesty and the power of his austerity. Gaṇeśa said: Rightly spoken, O lord of Rati: Brahmā and the others do not know me; when I take on form, then even they know me. Nārada asked Śeṣa — though he knew all things without exception — (about him who was) motionless, without breathing, fixed in meditation like a sage. He filled the sky, the earth's surface, the intermediate and the cardinal directions with sound — he at the soles of whose feet is the earth, whose ears are the directions, whose eye is the sun.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.45
मयूरध्वज इत्येवं नाम ख्यातं ततोऽभवत् । गजानन उवाच । मृतिं यास्यन्ति हस्तात्ते तारकाद्या महासुराः ममैवानुग्रहात्काम दृष्टवानसि मां तदा। यतोऽहं परितुष्टस्ते तपसा मनुना तथा ओषध्यो यस्य रोमाणि नखा यस्य धराधराः । मेघाः स्वेदोदकं यस्य प्रजनश्चतुराननः
mayūradhvaja ityevaṃ nāma khyātaṃ tato'bhavat | gajānana uvāca | mṛtiṃ yāsyanti hastātte tārakādyā mahāsurāḥ mamaivānugrahātkāma dṛṣṭavānasi māṃ tadā| yato'haṃ parituṣṭaste tapasā manunā tathā oṣadhyo yasya romāṇi nakhā yasya dharādharāḥ | meghāḥ svedodakaṃ yasya prajanaścaturānanaḥ
From then on the name "Peacock-bannered" became renowned. Gajānana said: The great demons Tāraka and the rest shall meet death at your hand. It was by my grace alone, O Kāma, that you then saw me; for I am well pleased with you by your austerity and by the mantra — (he) whose hairs are the herbs, whose nails are the mountains, whose sweat-water are the clouds, whose offspring is the four-faced one.
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GnP 1 86.46
लक्षविनायक इति नाम्नाऽहं भक्तवत्सलः । भविष्यामि चिरादत्र क्षेत्रे त्वद्वाक्यतोऽनघ वृणु मत्तोऽखिलान् कामान् कामे कामं ददामि ते । ब्रह्मोवाच । इति देववचः श्रुत्वा पुनरूचे मनोभवः कुक्षौ यस्य जगत्सर्वं चत्वारश्चैव सागराः । अनन्तानन एको योऽप्यनन्तनयन: स्वराट्
lakṣavināyaka iti nāmnā'haṃ bhaktavatsalaḥ | bhaviṣyāmi cirādatra kṣetre tvadvākyato'nagha vṛṇu matto'khilān kāmān kāme kāmaṃ dadāmi te | brahmovāca | iti devavacaḥ śrutvā punarūce manobhavaḥ kukṣau yasya jagatsarvaṃ catvāraścaiva sāgarāḥ | anantānana eko yo'pyanantanayana: svarāṭ
By the name Lakṣavināyaka I, fond of devotees, shall abide here in this holy place for a long time, at your word, O sinless one. Choose from me all your desires; in desire I grant you your desire. Brahmā said: Hearing this speech of the god, the mind-born one (Kāma) spoke again — (he) in whose belly is the whole world and the four oceans, who though one has endless faces and endless eyes, self-ruling.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 1 86.47
ब्रह्मोवाच । एवमुक्त्वा तु विकटस्तत्रैवान्तर्हितोऽभवत् । ततः स्कन्दो महामूर्तिं कृत्वा स्थाप्य द्विजैः सह आनुपूर्व्येण सकलं वृतान्तं शिवकारितम् । तस्मै चाकथयत्काम: प्रसन्नार्थप्रदायिने अनन्तरूपी चानन्त शक्तिरत्यन्त दीप्तिमान् । यद्रोमकूपे भान्ति स्म ब्रह्माण्डानि सहस्रशः
brahmovāca | evamuktvā tu vikaṭastatraivāntarhito'bhavat | tataḥ skando mahāmūrtiṃ kṛtvā sthāpya dvijaiḥ saha ānupūrvyeṇa sakalaṃ vṛtāntaṃ śivakāritam | tasmai cākathayatkāma: prasannārthapradāyine anantarūpī cānanta śaktiratyanta dīptimān | yadromakūpe bhānti sma brahmāṇḍāni sahasraśaḥ
Brahmā said: Having spoken thus, Vikaṭa vanished there itself. Then Skanda, having made a great image and installed it together with the twice-born, related to him the whole account in order, as brought about by Śiva — Kāma (related it) to that granter of boons who is well pleased — (he) of endless forms and endless power, exceedingly radiant, in whose pores the universes shone by the thousands.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.48
लक्षविनायक इति नाम चक्रे शुभं तदा । मोदकैर्लक्षसंख्याकैः पुष्पैर्दूर्वांकुरैरपि अनंगतां स्वस्य रतेराक्रन्दं मनुमेव च । अ नुष्ठानं चिरकृतं शिवदत्तं वरं तथा दृष्ट्वा तं तादृशं शेषो भीत्या भ्रान्त इवाभवत् । प्रार्थयामास विघ्नेशं पुनः सौम्यो भवेति च
lakṣavināyaka iti nāma cakre śubhaṃ tadā | modakairlakṣasaṃkhyākaiḥ puṣpairdūrvāṃkurairapi anaṃgatāṃ svasya raterākrandaṃ manumeva ca | a nuṣṭhānaṃ cirakṛtaṃ śivadattaṃ varaṃ tathā dṛṣṭvā taṃ tādṛśaṃ śeṣo bhītyā bhrānta ivābhavat | prārthayāmāsa vighneśaṃ punaḥ saumyo bhaveti ca
Then he made the auspicious name "Lakṣavināyaka," with a hundred thousand sweetmeats, with flowers and with dūrvā shoots — his own bodilessness, the lamentation of Rati, and the mantra, and the observance long performed, and the boon granted by Śiva. Seeing him in that form, Śeṣa became as if bewildered with fear, and he prayed to the Lord of Obstacles: "Become gentle again."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.49
पूजयामास तां मूर्तिमन्यैर्द्रव्यस्तथाविधैः । ब्राह्मणान् भोजयामास तावत् संख्याऽयुतान् द्विजान् वृणोति स्म वरं तस्मात् सुप्रसन्नाद् गजाननात् । काम उवाच । यदि प्रसन्नो भगवांस्तन्मे देहि सदेहताम् ततो दशभुजो देवः सिंहारूढोऽभवच्च सः । उवाच वरदो देवो नेदृग् दृष्टः सुरैरपि
pūjayāmāsa tāṃ mūrtimanyairdravyastathāvidhaiḥ | brāhmaṇān bhojayāmāsa tāvat saṃkhyā'yutān dvijān vṛṇoti sma varaṃ tasmāt suprasannād gajānanāt | kāma uvāca | yadi prasanno bhagavāṃstanme dehi sadehatām tato daśabhujo devaḥ siṃhārūḍho'bhavacca saḥ | uvāca varado devo nedṛg dṛṣṭaḥ surairapi
He worshipped that image with other such materials, and fed brahmins, twice-born to the number of ten thousand; and he was asking a boon from that well-pleased Gajānana. Kāma said: If the Lord is pleased, then grant me embodiment. Then that god became ten-armed, mounted on a lion; the boon-giving god said: "Such (a form) has not been seen even by the gods."
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.51
मयूरध्वज इति च नाम देवकृतं जगौ । तारकासुरनाशाय ययौ स्कन्दः शिवाज्ञया शेष उवाच । धरे धरां स्वशिरसि धरणीधर इत्यपि । ममापि तेऽपि विख्यातं नाम लोकेऽति विश्रुतम्
mayūradhvaja iti ca nāma devakṛtaṃ jagau | tārakāsuranāśāya yayau skandaḥ śivājñayā śeṣa uvāca | dhare dharāṃ svaśirasi dharaṇīdhara ityapi | mamāpi te'pi vikhyātaṃ nāma loke'ti viśrutam
And he proclaimed the name made by the god, "Peacock-bannered"; and Skanda went, by Śiva's command, to destroy the demon Tāraka. Śeṣa said: "O bearer, since you bear the earth on your own head, the name Dharaṇīdhara ("earth-bearer") is renowned in the world for me too and for you too" — thus greatly famed.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.52
स्मृत्वा गजाननं देवं परिगृह्य शिवाशिषः । देवसेनापतित्वेऽसावभिषिक्तः सुरर्षिभिः अस्मिन्क्षेत्रे स्थिरो भूत्वा भक्तकामान् प्रपूरय । ब्रह्मोवाच । ओमिति तमथोक्त्वाऽसौ विघ्नेशोऽन्तर्दधे स्वयम्
smṛtvā gajānanaṃ devaṃ parigṛhya śivāśiṣaḥ | devasenāpatitve'sāvabhiṣiktaḥ surarṣibhiḥ asminkṣetre sthiro bhūtvā bhaktakāmān prapūraya | brahmovāca | omiti tamathoktvā'sau vighneśo'ntardadhe svayam
Remembering the god Gajānana and receiving Śiva's blessings, he was consecrated by the divine sages into the office of commander of the gods' army. "Remaining fixed in this holy place, fulfil the desires of your devotees." Brahmā said: Then, having said "Om" to him, that Lord of Obstacles himself vanished.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 1 86.53
सेनानीस्तारकं दृष्ट्वा युद्धं चक्रे महाबलः । लक्षवर्षान्तरे तं स मारयामास शक्तितः शेषोऽपि तादृशीं मूर्तिं कृत्वाऽस्थापयदादरात् । अकरोद् बहुरत्नाढयं प्रासादं कांचनं शुभम्
senānīstārakaṃ dṛṣṭvā yuddhaṃ cakre mahābalaḥ | lakṣavarṣāntare taṃ sa mārayāmāsa śaktitaḥ śeṣo'pi tādṛśīṃ mūrtiṃ kṛtvā'sthāpayadādarāt | akarod bahuratnāḍhayaṃ prāsādaṃ kāṃcanaṃ śubham
The commander, seeing Tāraka, waged war, mighty of strength; and within a hundred thousand years he killed him by his power (or: with his spear). Śeṣa too made an image of that same kind and installed it with reverence, and made a fine golden temple rich with many jewels.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 1 86.54
युद्धं तद् वर्णितुं शक्तिः शेषस्यापि न वै भवेत्। तारके निहते दैत्ये ननन्दुः सर्वदेवताः धरणीधर इत्येतन्नामास्य परिकल्पयत् । हरेः शयनतां प्रायादवहत् पुष्पवद्धराम्
yuddhaṃ tad varṇituṃ śaktiḥ śeṣasyāpi na vai bhavet| tārake nihate daitye nananduḥ sarvadevatāḥ dharaṇīdhara ityetannāmāsya parikalpayat | hareḥ śayanatāṃ prāyādavahat puṣpavaddharām
Even Śeṣa would have no power to describe that battle. When the demon Tāraka was slain, all the gods rejoiced. He devised for him this name "Dharaṇīdhara"; he came to be Hari's couch, and he bore the earth as though it were a flower.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GnP 1 86.55
मुनयो लोकपालाश्च नागाश्च मानवास्तथा । मुमुचुः पुष्पवर्षाणि स्कन्दस्योपरि निर्वृताः स्थिरोऽभून्नाभिपद्मेऽपि विघ्नराजस्य भूषणम् । एवं ते कथितो व्यास विघ्नेशमहिमाऽद्भुतः
munayo lokapālāśca nāgāśca mānavāstathā | mumucuḥ puṣpavarṣāṇi skandasyopari nirvṛtāḥ sthiro'bhūnnābhipadme'pi vighnarājasya bhūṣaṇam | evaṃ te kathito vyāsa vighneśamahimā'dbhutaḥ
The sages, the world-guardians, the serpents and men too, contented, released showers of flowers over Skanda. He became fixed as an ornament even on (Viṣṇu's) navel-lotus. Thus, O Vyāsa, the wondrous greatness of the Lord of Obstacles has been told to you.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 1 86.56
सर्वदेवाश्च लोकाश्च स्वं स्वं स्थानं ययुस्तदा । स्वाहास्वधा वषट्कारान् यथापूर्वं च चक्रिरे प्रवालनगरे ख्यातो गणेशो धरणीधरः। एतदर्थं हि शेषेण कृतमाराधनं विभोः
sarvadevāśca lokāśca svaṃ svaṃ sthānaṃ yayustadā | svāhāsvadhā vaṣaṭkārān yathāpūrvaṃ ca cakrire pravālanagare khyāto gaṇeśo dharaṇīdharaḥ| etadarthaṃ hi śeṣeṇa kṛtamārādhanaṃ vibhoḥ
And all the gods and the worlds then went each to his own place, and performed the cries "svāhā," "svadhā" and "vaṣaṭ" as before. In the city of Pravāla, Gaṇeśa is renowned as Dharaṇīdhara; for it was for this purpose that the worship of the Lord was performed by Śeṣa.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 1 86.57
ब्रह्मोवाच । एवं प्रभावो देवोऽसौ कथितस्ते गजाननः । व्रतप्रभावोऽपि मया यथावत्ते निरूपितः
brahmovāca | evaṃ prabhāvo devo'sau kathitaste gajānanaḥ | vrataprabhāvo'pi mayā yathāvatte nirūpitaḥ
Brahmā said: Such is the power of that god Gajānana, as told to you; and the power of the observance too has been set forth by me to you just as it is.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 1 86.58
त्रयस्त्रिंशत् कोटिसुरैरवध्योऽसौ महासुरः । स्कन्देन निहतः संख्ये देवव्रत प्रभावतः
trayastriṃśat koṭisurairavadhyo'sau mahāsuraḥ | skandena nihataḥ saṃkhye devavrata prabhāvataḥ
That great demon, who could not be slain by thirty-three crores of gods, was slain in battle by Skanda through the power of the gods' observance.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 1 86.59
इन्द्रादिदेवतावृन्दैः पूजनीयोऽभवच्च सः । व्यास उवाच । अनुष्ठानं कृतं तेन कस्मिन् स्थाने समाधिना
indrādidevatāvṛndaiḥ pūjanīyo'bhavacca saḥ | vyāsa uvāca | anuṣṭhānaṃ kṛtaṃ tena kasmin sthāne samādhinā
And he became one to be worshipped by the hosts of deities beginning with Indra. Vyāsa said: In what place was the observance performed by him with (deep) concentration?
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GnP 1 86.61
प्रसिद्धो वर्तते नाम्ना आसील्लक्षविनायकः । एलोऽभूत्तत्र नगरे पश्चाद् राजाऽभिविश्रुतः । तन्नाम्ना नगरं ख्यातं ततस्तदभवन् मुने
prasiddho vartate nāmnā āsīllakṣavināyakaḥ | elo'bhūttatra nagare paścād rājā'bhiviśrutaḥ | tannāmnā nagaraṃ khyātaṃ tatastadabhavan mune
He is well known by name: he was Lakṣavināyaka. Afterwards there was in that city a very famous king named Ela; the city became renowned by his name, O sage.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition