Kalika Purana — Chapter 5
KaP 5.1
कालिकापुराणम् पञ्चमोऽध्यायः कालीस्तुतिः अथ कालिका पुराण अध्याय ५ ।। मार्कण्डेय उवाच ।। अथ ब्रह्मा तदोवाच दक्षाय सुमहात्मने । मरीचिप्रमुखेभ्यश्च वचनञ्चेदमञ्जसा
kālikāpurāṇam pañcamo'dhyāyaḥ kālīstutiḥ atha kālikā purāṇa adhyāya 5 || mārkaṇḍeya uvāca || atha brahmā tadovāca dakṣāya sumahātmane | marīcipramukhebhyaśca vacanañcedamañjasā
The Kālikā Purāṇa, fifth chapter: The Praise of Kālī. Kālikā Purāṇa, chapter 5. Mārkaṇḍeya said: Then Brahmā spoke to the great-souled Dakṣa and to those headed by Marīci, and (said) this word straightaway.
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KaP 5.2
।। ब्रह्मोवाच ।। भवित्री शम्भुपत्नी का का तं सन्मोहयिष्यति । इति सञ्चिन्तयन् कान्तां न स्थिरीकर्तुमुत्सहे
|| brahmovāca || bhavitrī śambhupatnī kā kā taṃ sanmohayiṣyati | iti sañcintayan kāntāṃ na sthirīkartumutsahe
Brahmā said: Who is to become Śambhu's wife? Who will thoroughly infatuate him? Pondering thus upon a bride, I cannot settle (on any).
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KaP 5.3
विष्णुमायामृते दक्ष महामायां जगन्मयीम् । नान्या तन्मोहकर्त्री स्यात् सन्ध्यासावित्र्युमामृते
viṣṇumāyāmṛte dakṣa mahāmāyāṃ jaganmayīm | nānyā tanmohakartrī syāt sandhyāsāvitryumāmṛte
Apart from Viṣṇu's māyā, O Dakṣa, the great Māyā who consists of the world, no other could bewilder him — apart from Sandhyā, Sāvitrī and Umā.
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KaP 5.4
तस्मादहं विष्णुमायां योगनिद्रां जगत्प्रसूम् । स्तौमि सा चारुरूपेण शङ्करं मोहयिष्यति
tasmādahaṃ viṣṇumāyāṃ yoganidrāṃ jagatprasūm | staumi sā cārurūpeṇa śaṅkaraṃ mohayiṣyati
Therefore I praise Viṣṇumāyā, Yoganidrā, the mother of the world; she, with a lovely form, will infatuate Śaṅkara.
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KaP 5.5
भवांस्तु दक्ष तामेव यजतां विश्वरूपिणीम् । यथा तव सुता भूत्वा हरजाया भविष्यति ॥ श्रीकालिकापुराणे कालीस्तुतिर्नाम पञ्चमोऽध्यायः
bhavāṃstu dakṣa tāmeva yajatāṃ viśvarūpiṇīm | yathā tava sutā bhūtvā harajāyā bhaviṣyati || śrīkālikāpurāṇe kālīstutirnāma pañcamo'dhyāyaḥ
But you, Dakṣa, worship that very one whose form is the universe, so that, becoming your daughter, she may become Hara's wife. || In the glorious Kālikāpurāṇa, the fifth chapter, called 'The Praise of Kālī'.
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KaP 5.6
।। मार्कण्डेय उवाच ।। एवं वचनमाकर्ण्य ब्रह्मण: परमात्मनः । उवाच दक्षः स्रष्टारं मरीच्यादिभिरीरितः
|| mārkaṇḍeya uvāca || evaṃ vacanamākarṇya brahmaṇa: paramātmanaḥ | uvāca dakṣaḥ sraṣṭāraṃ marīcyādibhirīritaḥ
Mārkaṇḍeya said: Having heard this speech of Brahmā, the supreme Self, Dakṣa, urged on by Marīci and the others, said to the Creator:
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KaP 5.7
।। दक्ष उवाच ।। यथात्थ भगवंस्तथ्यं त्वं लोकेश जगद्धितम् । तत् करिष्यामहे सम्यग् यथा स्यात्तन्मनोहरा
|| dakṣa uvāca || yathāttha bhagavaṃstathyaṃ tvaṃ lokeśa jagaddhitam | tat kariṣyāmahe samyag yathā syāttanmanoharā
Dakṣa said: What you have said, O lord, O ruler of the world, is true and beneficial to the world; that we shall do properly, in such a way that she becomes captivating.
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KaP 5.8
तथा तथा भविष्यामि यथा मम सुता स्वयम् । विष्णुमाया भवेत् पत्नी भूत्वा शम्भोर्महात्मनः
tathā tathā bhaviṣyāmi yathā mama sutā svayam | viṣṇumāyā bhavet patnī bhūtvā śambhormahātmanaḥ
I shall so act that my own daughter, Viṣṇumāyā, having become (my child), may become the wife of the great-souled Śambhu.
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KaP 5.9
।। मार्कण्डेय उवाच ।। एवमेवेति तैरुक्तं मरीचिप्रमुखैस्तदा । यष्टुं दक्षः समारेभे महामायां जगन्मयीम्
|| mārkaṇḍeya uvāca || evameveti tairuktaṃ marīcipramukhaistadā | yaṣṭuṃ dakṣaḥ samārebhe mahāmāyāṃ jaganmayīm
Mārkaṇḍeya said: When Marīci and the others had then said, "Just so," Dakṣa began to worship the great Māyā who consists of the world.
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KaP 5.10
क्षीरोदोत्तरतीरस्थस्तां कृत्वा हृदयस्थिताम् । तपस्तप्तुं समारेभे द्रष्टुं प्रत्यक्षतोऽम्बिकाम्
kṣīrodottaratīrasthastāṃ kṛtvā hṛdayasthitām | tapastaptuṃ samārebhe draṣṭuṃ pratyakṣato'mbikām
Standing on the northern shore of the Ocean of Milk, having set her in his heart, he began to practise austerity in order to see Ambikā face to face.
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KaP 5.11
दीव्यवर्षेण दक्षोऽपि सहस्राणां त्रयः समाः । तपश्चचार नियतः संयतात्मा दृढव्रतः
dīvyavarṣeṇa dakṣo'pi sahasrāṇāṃ trayaḥ samāḥ | tapaścacāra niyataḥ saṃyatātmā dṛḍhavrataḥ
And Dakṣa practised austerity for three thousand years by divine reckoning, restrained, self-controlled, firm in his vow.
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KaP 5.12
मारुताशी निराहारो जलाहारी च पर्णभुक् । एवं निनाय तत्कालं चिन्तयंस्तां जगन्मयीम्
mārutāśī nirāhāro jalāhārī ca parṇabhuk | evaṃ nināya tatkālaṃ cintayaṃstāṃ jaganmayīm
Feeding on air, without food, drinking water, and eating leaves — thus he passed that time, meditating on her who consists of the world.
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KaP 5.13
गते दक्षे तपः कर्तुं ब्रह्मा सर्वजगत्पतिः । जगाम मन्दराभ्यासं पुण्यात्पुण्यतरं वरम्
gate dakṣe tapaḥ kartuṃ brahmā sarvajagatpatiḥ | jagāma mandarābhyāsaṃ puṇyātpuṇyataraṃ varam
When Dakṣa had gone to perform austerity, Brahmā, lord of all the worlds, went to the vicinity of Mandara, the excellent place holier than the holy.
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KaP 5.14
तत्र गत्वा जगद्धात्रीं विष्णुमायां जगन्मयीम् । तुष्टाव वाग्भिरर्थ्याभिरेकतानं शतं समाः
tatra gatvā jagaddhātrīṃ viṣṇumāyāṃ jaganmayīm | tuṣṭāva vāgbhirarthyābhirekatānaṃ śataṃ samāḥ
Going there, he praised the world's supporter, Viṣṇumāyā who consists of the world, with fitting words, single-minded, for a hundred years.
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KaP 5.15
।। ब्रह्मोवाच ।। विद्याविद्यात्मिकां शुद्धां निरालम्बां निराकुलाम् । स्तौमि देवीं जगद्धात्रीं स्थूलाणीयः स्वरूपिणीम्
|| brahmovāca || vidyāvidyātmikāṃ śuddhāṃ nirālambāṃ nirākulām | staumi devīṃ jagaddhātrīṃ sthūlāṇīyaḥ svarūpiṇīm
Brahmā said: I praise the goddess who consists of knowledge and ignorance, pure, without support, undisturbed, the supporter of the world, whose own form is (both) gross and most minute.
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KaP 5.16
यस्या उदेति च जगत्प्रधानाख्यं जगत्परम् । यस्यास्तदंशभूतां त्वां स्तौमि निद्रां सनातनीम्
yasyā udeti ca jagatpradhānākhyaṃ jagatparam | yasyāstadaṃśabhūtāṃ tvāṃ staumi nidrāṃ sanātanīm
She from whom arises what is called the pradhāna of the world, that which is beyond the world — you, who are a portion of her, I praise, the eternal Sleep.
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KaP 5.17
त्वं चितिः परमानन्दा परमात्मस्वरूपिणी । शक्तिस्त्वं सर्वभूतानां त्वं सर्वेषां च पावनी
tvaṃ citiḥ paramānandā paramātmasvarūpiṇī | śaktistvaṃ sarvabhūtānāṃ tvaṃ sarveṣāṃ ca pāvanī
You are consciousness, supreme bliss, having the nature of the supreme Self; you are the power of all beings, and you are the purifier of all.
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KaP 5.18
त्वं सावित्री जगद्धात्री त्वं सन्ध्या त्वं रतिर्धृतिः । त्वं हि ज्योतिः स्वरूपेण संसारस्य प्रकाशिनी । तथा तमः स्वरूपेण च्छादयन्ती सदा जगत्
tvaṃ sāvitrī jagaddhātrī tvaṃ sandhyā tvaṃ ratirdhṛtiḥ | tvaṃ hi jyotiḥ svarūpeṇa saṃsārasya prakāśinī | tathā tamaḥ svarūpeṇa cchādayantī sadā jagat
You are Sāvitrī, the supporter of the world; you are Sandhyā; you are pleasure and steadfastness. For you, in the form of light, illumine the round of existence; and likewise, in the form of darkness, you ever cover the world.
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KaP 5.19
त्वमेव सृष्टिरूपेण संसारपरिपूरणी
tvameva sṛṣṭirūpeṇa saṃsāraparipūraṇī
You alone, in the form of creation, fill up the round of existence,
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KaP 5.20
स्थितिरूपेण च हरेर्जगतां च हितैषिणी । तथैवान्तस्वरूपेण जगतामन्तकारिणी
sthitirūpeṇa ca harerjagatāṃ ca hitaiṣiṇī | tathaivāntasvarūpeṇa jagatāmantakāriṇī
and in the form of Hari's preservation you seek the welfare of the worlds; and just so, in the form of the end, you bring the worlds to their end.
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KaP 5.21
त्वं मेधा त्वं महामाया त्वं स्वधा पितृमोदिनी । त्वं स्वाहा त्वं नमस्कार वषट्कारौ तथा स्मृतिः
tvaṃ medhā tvaṃ mahāmāyā tvaṃ svadhā pitṛmodinī | tvaṃ svāhā tvaṃ namaskāra vaṣaṭkārau tathā smṛtiḥ
You are intelligence, you are the great Māyā, you are svadhā that gladdens the ancestors; you are svāhā, you are the utterances namaḥ and vaṣaṭ, and also memory.
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KaP 5.22
त्वं पुष्टिस्त्वं धृतिमैत्री करुणा मुदिता तथा । त्वमेव लज्जा त्वं शान्तिस्त्वं कान्तिर्जगदीश्वरी
tvaṃ puṣṭistvaṃ dhṛtimaitrī karuṇā muditā tathā | tvameva lajjā tvaṃ śāntistvaṃ kāntirjagadīśvarī
You are Nourishment, you are Constancy, Friendliness, Compassion and Gladness; you alone are Modesty, you are Peace, you are Loveliness, O Mistress of the world.
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KaP 5.23
महामाया त्वं च स्वाहा स्वधा च पितृदेवता
mahāmāyā tvaṃ ca svāhā svadhā ca pitṛdevatā
You are Mahāmāyā, and Svāhā, and Svadhā, the deity of the ancestors.
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KaP 5.24
या सृष्टिशक्तिरस्माकं स्थितिशक्तिश्च या हरेः । अन्तशक्तिस्तथैशानी सा त्वं शक्तिः सनातनी
yā sṛṣṭiśaktirasmākaṃ sthitiśaktiśca yā hareḥ | antaśaktistathaiśānī sā tvaṃ śaktiḥ sanātanī
The power of creation that is ours, and the power of maintenance that is Hari's, and likewise Īśāna's power of ending — that eternal power are you.
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KaP 5.25
एका त्वं द्विविधा भूत्वा मोक्षसंसारकारिणी । विद्याविद्यास्वरूपेण स्वप्रकाशाप्रकाशतः
ekā tvaṃ dvividhā bhūtvā mokṣasaṃsārakāriṇī | vidyāvidyāsvarūpeṇa svaprakāśāprakāśataḥ
You, being one, become twofold, causing liberation and transmigration, in the form of knowledge and ignorance, through your being manifest and unmanifest.
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KaP 5.26
त्वं लक्ष्मीः सर्वभूतानां त्वं छाया त्वं सरस्वती । त्रयीमयी त्रिमाता त्वं सर्वभूतस्वरूपिणी
tvaṃ lakṣmīḥ sarvabhūtānāṃ tvaṃ chāyā tvaṃ sarasvatī | trayīmayī trimātā tvaṃ sarvabhūtasvarūpiṇī
You are the Lakṣmī of all beings, you are Shadow, you are Sarasvatī; you consist of the three (Vedas), you are the triple mother, you have the form of all beings.
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KaP 5.27
उद्गीति: सामवेदस्य या पितृगणरञ्जनी । त्वं वेदिः सर्वयज्ञानां सामिधेनी तथा हविः
udgīti: sāmavedasya yā pitṛgaṇarañjanī | tvaṃ vediḥ sarvayajñānāṃ sāmidhenī tathā haviḥ
You are the udgīti (chant) of the Sāmaveda, which delights the hosts of the ancestors; you are the altar of all sacrifices, and the kindling-verse, and the oblation.
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KaP 5.28
यदव्यक्तमनिर्देश्यं निष्कलं परमात्मनः । रूपं तथैव तन्मात्रं सकलं च जगन्मयम्
yadavyaktamanirdeśyaṃ niṣkalaṃ paramātmanaḥ | rūpaṃ tathaiva tanmātraṃ sakalaṃ ca jaganmayam
Whatever unmanifest, indefinable, partless form belongs to the Supreme Self, and likewise that which is mere subtle essence, and that which has parts and consists of the world (— all that is you).
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KaP 5.29
या मूर्त्तिर्वितता सर्वधरित्री विभ्रती क्षितिम् । सा त्वं विश्वम्भरे लोके शक्तिभूतिप्रदा सदा
yā mūrttirvitatā sarvadharitrī vibhratī kṣitim | sā tvaṃ viśvambhare loke śaktibhūtipradā sadā
The extended form that is the all-supporting one, upholding the earth — that are you, O sustainer of the universe, ever the giver of power and prosperity in the world.
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KaP 5.30
त्वं लक्ष्मीश्चेतना कान्तिस्त्वं पुष्टिस्त्वं सनातनी । त्वं कालरात्रिस्त्वं मुक्तिः शान्तिः प्रज्ञा तथा स्मृतिः
tvaṃ lakṣmīścetanā kāntistvaṃ puṣṭistvaṃ sanātanī | tvaṃ kālarātristvaṃ muktiḥ śāntiḥ prajñā tathā smṛtiḥ
You are Lakṣmī, Consciousness, Loveliness; you are Nourishment, you are the Eternal; you are the Night of Time, you are Liberation, Peace, Wisdom, and Memory.
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KaP 5.31
संसारसागरोत्तार- तरणि: सुखमोक्षदे । प्रसीद सर्वजगतां त्वं गतिस्त्वं मतिः सदा
saṃsārasāgarottāra- taraṇi: sukhamokṣade | prasīda sarvajagatāṃ tvaṃ gatistvaṃ matiḥ sadā
O boat for crossing over the ocean of transmigration, O giver of happiness and release, be gracious: you are the goal of all the worlds, you are ever the thought (within them).
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KaP 5.32
त्वं नित्या त्वमनित्या च त्वं चराचरमोहिनी । त्वं सन्धिनी सर्वयोग-साङ्गोपाङ्गविभाविनी
tvaṃ nityā tvamanityā ca tvaṃ carācaramohinī | tvaṃ sandhinī sarvayoga-sāṅgopāṅgavibhāvinī
You are the eternal and you are the transient; you are the deluder of the moving and the unmoving; you are the joiner, revealing all yoga with its limbs and subsidiary limbs.
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KaP 5.33
चिन्ता कीर्तिर्यतीनां त्वं त्वं तदष्टाङ्गसंयुता । त्वं खड्गिनी शूलिनी च चक्रिणी घोररूपिणी
cintā kīrtiryatīnāṃ tvaṃ tvaṃ tadaṣṭāṅgasaṃyutā | tvaṃ khaḍginī śūlinī ca cakriṇī ghorarūpiṇī
You are the Reflection and the Renown of ascetics; you are joined with those eight limbs (of yoga); you bear the sword and the spear and the discus, and you have a terrible form.
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KaP 5.34
त्वमीश्वरी जनानां त्वं सर्वानुग्रहकारिणी । विश्वादिस्त्वमनादिस्त्वं विश्वयोनिरयोनिजा । अनन्ता सर्वजगतस्त्वमेवैकान्तकारिणी
tvamīśvarī janānāṃ tvaṃ sarvānugrahakāriṇī | viśvādistvamanādistvaṃ viśvayonirayonijā | anantā sarvajagatastvamevaikāntakāriṇī
You are the ruler of people, you are the giver of all grace; you are the beginning of the universe, you are without beginning, you are the womb of the universe, born of no womb; you are endless, and you alone bring about the end of the whole world.
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KaP 5.35
नितान्तनिर्मला त्वं हि तामसीति च गीयसे । त्वं हिंसा त्वमहिंसा च त्वं काली चतुरानना
nitāntanirmalā tvaṃ hi tāmasīti ca gīyase | tvaṃ hiṃsā tvamahiṃsā ca tvaṃ kālī caturānanā
You are utterly spotless, and yet you are sung of as 'the dark one (tāmasī)'; you are violence and you are non-violence; you are Kālī and the four-faced one.
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KaP 5.36
त्वं परा सर्वजननी दमनी दामिनी तथा । त्वय्येव लीयते विश्वं भाति तत्त्वं बिभर्षि च
tvaṃ parā sarvajananī damanī dāminī tathā | tvayyeva līyate viśvaṃ bhāti tattvaṃ bibharṣi ca
You are the supreme, the mother of all, the subduer and likewise the binder; in you alone the universe dissolves, and it shines forth, and you bear it up.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
KaP 5.37
त्वं सृष्टिहीना त्वं सृष्टिस्त्वमकर्णापि सश्रुतिः । तपस्विनी पाणिपादहीना त्वं नितरां ग्रहा
tvaṃ sṛṣṭihīnā tvaṃ sṛṣṭistvamakarṇāpi saśrutiḥ | tapasvinī pāṇipādahīnā tvaṃ nitarāṃ grahā
You are devoid of creation, you are creation; though earless you possess hearing; you are the ascetic, without hands and feet, and you are utterly the seizer.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
KaP 5.38
त्वं द्यौस्त्वमापस्त्वं ज्योतिर्वायुस्त्वं च नभो मनः । अहङ्कारोऽपि जगतामष्टधा प्रकृतिः कृतिः
tvaṃ dyaustvamāpastvaṃ jyotirvāyustvaṃ ca nabho manaḥ | ahaṅkāro'pi jagatāmaṣṭadhā prakṛtiḥ kṛtiḥ
You are the sky, you are the waters, you are light, you are wind and space and mind, and also the I-sense: the eightfold nature and the activity of the worlds.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
KaP 5.39
जगन्नाभिर्मेरुरूपधारिणी नालिकापरा । परापरात्मिका शुद्धा माया मोहातिकारिणी
jagannābhirmerurūpadhāriṇī nālikāparā | parāparātmikā śuddhā māyā mohātikāriṇī
You are the navel of the world, bearing the form of Meru, the supreme stalk; you are of the nature of the higher and the lower, pure, and you are Māyā, who works excessive delusion.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
KaP 5.40
कारणं कार्यभूतञ्च सत्यं शान्तं शिवाशिवे । रूपाणि तव विश्वार्थे रागवृक्षफलानि च
kāraṇaṃ kāryabhūtañca satyaṃ śāntaṃ śivāśive | rūpāṇi tava viśvārthe rāgavṛkṣaphalāni ca
Cause and effect, truth, peace, the auspicious and the inauspicious — these are your forms for the sake of the universe, and they are the fruits of the tree of passion.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
KaP 5.41
नितान्त हस्वा दीर्घा च नितान्ताणुबृहत्तनुः । सूक्ष्माप्यखिललोकस्य व्यापिनी त्वं जगन्मयी
nitānta hasvā dīrghā ca nitāntāṇubṛhattanuḥ | sūkṣmāpyakhilalokasya vyāpinī tvaṃ jaganmayī
You are exceedingly short and long, your body exceedingly minute and vast; though subtle, you pervade the entire world, you who consist of the universe.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
KaP 5.42
मानहीना विमानाति - विमानोन्मानसम्भवा । यदष्टिव्यष्टिसम्भोगरागादिगलिताशया । तत्ते महिम्नि तद्रूपं तव भ्रान्त्यादिकं च यत्
mānahīnā vimānāti - vimānonmānasambhavā | yadaṣṭivyaṣṭisambhogarāgādigalitāśayā | tatte mahimni tadrūpaṃ tava bhrāntyādikaṃ ca yat
(You are) without measure, beyond measure, arising from measure and non-measure; whose disposition has dissolved away from the aggregate and the particular, from enjoyment, passion and the rest — that form of yours (abides) in your greatness, as does whatever in you is delusion and the like.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
KaP 5.43
इष्टनिष्ठाविपाकज्ञा यथेष्टानिष्टकारणम् । सर्गादिमध्यान्तमयं निम्नं रूपं तथैव च
iṣṭaniṣṭhāvipākajñā yatheṣṭāniṣṭakāraṇam | sargādimadhyāntamayaṃ nimnaṃ rūpaṃ tathaiva ca
(You are) the knower of the ripening of desired and undesired ends, the cause of the wished-for and the unwished-for; and likewise (yours) is the low form consisting of the beginning, middle and end of creation.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
KaP 5.44
विचाराष्टाङ्गयोगेन सम्पाद्यैवं मुहुर्मुहुः । यत् स्थिरीक्रियते तत्त्वं तत्ते रूपं सनातनम्
vicārāṣṭāṅgayogena sampādyaivaṃ muhurmuhuḥ | yat sthirīkriyate tattvaṃ tatte rūpaṃ sanātanam
That truth which, having been attained again and again in this way through reflection and the eightfold yoga, is made steadfast — that is your eternal form.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
KaP 5.45
वाह्यावाह्ये सुखं दुःखं ज्ञानाज्ञाने लयालयौ । उपतापस्तथा शान्तिर्भूतिस्त्वं जगतः पतेः
vāhyāvāhye sukhaṃ duḥkhaṃ jñānājñāne layālayau | upatāpastathā śāntirbhūtistvaṃ jagataḥ pateḥ
What is to be borne and not to be borne, pleasure and pain, knowledge and ignorance, dissolution and non-dissolution, affliction and likewise peace — you are the (very) being of the lord of the world.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
KaP 5.46
यस्याः प्रभावं नो वक्तुं शक्नोति भुवनत्रये । तस्यैव सन्मोहकरी सा त्वं किं स्तूयसे मया
yasyāḥ prabhāvaṃ no vaktuṃ śaknoti bhuvanatraye | tasyaiva sanmohakarī sā tvaṃ kiṃ stūyase mayā
She whose power no one in the three worlds is able to declare — you, that very deluder of the good — how are you to be praised by me?
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
KaP 5.47
योगनिद्रा महानिद्रा मोहनिद्रा जगन्मयी । विष्णुमाया च प्रकृतिः कस्त्वां स्तुत्या विभावयेत्
yoganidrā mahānidrā mohanidrā jaganmayī | viṣṇumāyā ca prakṛtiḥ kastvāṃ stutyā vibhāvayet
Yoga-sleep, great sleep, sleep of delusion, made of the world, Viṣṇu's māyā and prakṛti — who could make you manifest by praise?
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
KaP 5.48
मम विष्णोः शङ्करस्य या वपुर्वहनात्मिका । तस्याः प्रभावं को वक्तुं गुणान् वेत्तुं च कः क्षमः
mama viṣṇoḥ śaṅkarasya yā vapurvahanātmikā | tasyāḥ prabhāvaṃ ko vaktuṃ guṇān vettuṃ ca kaḥ kṣamaḥ
She who is the very bearing of the bodies of me, of Viṣṇu, and of Śaṅkara — who is competent to tell her power, and who to know her qualities?
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
KaP 5.49
प्रकाश करणज्योति: स्वरूपान्तरगोचरा । त्वमेव जङ्गमस्थेयरूपैका बाह्यगोचरा
prakāśa karaṇajyoti: svarūpāntaragocarā | tvameva jaṅgamastheyarūpaikā bāhyagocarā
(You are) the light of the organ of illumination, having your own nature as your inner range; you alone, as the single form of the moving and the standing, are the range of the outer.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
KaP 5.50
प्रसीद सर्वजगतां जननी स्त्रीस्वरूपिणी । विश्वरूपिणि विश्वेशे प्रसीद त्वं सनातनि
prasīda sarvajagatāṃ jananī strīsvarūpiṇī | viśvarūpiṇi viśveśe prasīda tvaṃ sanātani
Be gracious, mother of all the worlds, you whose form is woman; O you of universal form, mistress of the universe, be gracious, O eternal one.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
KaP 5.51
।। मार्कण्डेय उवाच ।। एवं संस्तूयमाना सा योगनिद्रा विरिञ्चिना । आविर्बभूव प्रत्यक्षं ब्रह्मण: परमात्मनः
|| mārkaṇḍeya uvāca || evaṃ saṃstūyamānā sā yoganidrā viriñcinā | āvirbabhūva pratyakṣaṃ brahmaṇa: paramātmanaḥ
Mārkaṇḍeya said: Thus praised by Viriñci, that Yoganidrā became manifest before the eyes of Brahmā, the supreme Self.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
KaP 5.52
स्त्रिग्धाञ्जनद्युतिश्चारुरूपोत्तुङगा चतुर्भुजा । सिंहस्था खड्गनीलाब्जहस्ता मुक्तकचोत्करा
strigdhāñjanadyutiścārurūpottuṅagā caturbhujā | siṃhasthā khaḍganīlābjahastā muktakacotkarā
With the sheen of glossy collyrium, lovely of form and tall, four-armed, seated on a lion, holding a sword and a blue lotus in her hands, with her mass of hair unbound.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
KaP 5.53
समक्षमथ तां वीक्ष्य स्रष्टा सर्वजगद्गुरुः । भक्त्या विनम्रतुङ्गा सस्तुष्टाव च ननाम च
samakṣamatha tāṃ vīkṣya sraṣṭā sarvajagadguruḥ | bhaktyā vinamratuṅgā sastuṣṭāva ca nanāma ca
Then, seeing her before him, the creator, teacher of all the worlds, tall (though) bowed low with devotion, praised her and made obeisance.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
KaP 5.54
।। ब्रह्मोवाच ।। नमो नमस्ते जगतः प्रवृत्तिनिवृत्तिरूपे स्थितिसर्गरूपे । चराचराणां भवती च शक्तिः सनातनी सर्वविमोहनीति
|| brahmovāca || namo namaste jagataḥ pravṛttinivṛttirūpe sthitisargarūpe | carācarāṇāṃ bhavatī ca śaktiḥ sanātanī sarvavimohanīti
Brahmā said: Homage, homage to you, whose form is the going-forth and the ceasing of the world, whose form is maintenance and creation; and you are the eternal power of moving and unmoving beings, the deluder of all.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
KaP 5.55
या श्रीः सदा केशवमूर्त्तिमाया विश्वम्भरा या सकलं विभर्त्ति । हीर्योगिनी या महिता मनोज्ञा सा त्वं नमस्ते परमात्मसारे
yā śrīḥ sadā keśavamūrttimāyā viśvambharā yā sakalaṃ vibhartti | hīryoginī yā mahitā manojñā sā tvaṃ namaste paramātmasāre
She who is Śrī, ever the māyā of Keśava's form; who as Viśvambharā bears the whole; who is Modesty, the yoginī, honoured and charming — you are she: homage to you, essence of the supreme Self.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
KaP 5.56
यामादिपूर्वे हृदि योगिनो यां विभावयन्ति प्रमितिप्रतीताम् । प्रकाशशुद्धादियुतां विरागां सा त्वं हि विद्या विविधावलम्बा
yāmādipūrve hṛdi yogino yāṃ vibhāvayanti pramitipratītām | prakāśaśuddhādiyutāṃ virāgāṃ sā tvaṃ hi vidyā vividhāvalambā
She whom the yogins, at the first watch, contemplate in the heart, known through right cognition, endowed with luminosity, purity and the rest, free of passion — you indeed are that knowledge with its manifold supports.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
KaP 5.57
कूटस्थमव्यक्तमचिन्त्य रूपं त्वं विभ्रती कालमयं जगन्ति । विकारबीजं प्रकरोषि नित्यं प्रत्नानि न्यूलान्यथ मध्यमानि
kūṭasthamavyaktamacintya rūpaṃ tvaṃ vibhratī kālamayaṃ jaganti | vikārabījaṃ prakaroṣi nityaṃ pratnāni nyūlānyatha madhyamāni
Bearing the immovable, unmanifest, unthinkable form, you (bear) the worlds made of time; you constantly produce the seed of change — the ancient, the low, and the middling.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
KaP 5.58
सत्त्वं रजोऽथो तम इत्यमीषां विकारहीना समवस्थितिर्या । सा त्वं गुणानां जगदेकहेतुर्वाह्यान्तरालं भवतीव याति
sattvaṃ rajo'tho tama ityamīṣāṃ vikārahīnā samavasthitiryā | sā tvaṃ guṇānāṃ jagadekaheturvāhyāntarālaṃ bhavatīva yāti
That balanced condition of these — sattva, rajas, and tamas — which is free from modification: you are that (state) of the qualities, the sole cause of the world; you seem to go between outer and inner.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
KaP 5.59
अशेषजगतां बीजे ज्ञेयज्ञानस्वरूपिणि । जगद्धिताय जगतां विष्णुमाये नमोऽस्तुते
aśeṣajagatāṃ bīje jñeyajñānasvarūpiṇi | jagaddhitāya jagatāṃ viṣṇumāye namo'stute
O seed of all the worlds, you whose nature is the knowable and knowing, O Viṣṇumāyā, homage to you for the welfare of the world, of the worlds.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
KaP 5.60
।। मार्कण्डेय उवाच ।। इत्याकर्ण्य वचस्तस्य काली लोकविमोहिनी । ब्रह्माणमूचे जगतां स्रष्टारं घनशब्दवत्
|| mārkaṇḍeya uvāca || ityākarṇya vacastasya kālī lokavimohinī | brahmāṇamūce jagatāṃ sraṣṭāraṃ ghanaśabdavat
Mārkaṇḍeya said: Having heard his words, Kālī, the deluder of the world, spoke to Brahmā, creator of the worlds, with a voice like a thundercloud.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
KaP 5.61
।। देव्युवाच ।। ब्रह्मन् किमर्थं भवता स्तुताहमवधारय । उच्यतां यदधृष्योऽस्ति तच्छीघ्रं पुरतो मम
|| devyuvāca || brahman kimarthaṃ bhavatā stutāhamavadhāraya | ucyatāṃ yadadhṛṣyo'sti tacchīghraṃ purato mama
The Goddess said: Brahmā, consider for what purpose I have been praised by you. Let it be told at once before me — whatever is unassailable.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
KaP 5.62
प्रत्यक्षं मयि जातायां सिद्धिः कार्यस्य निश्चिता । तस्मात्ते वाञ्छितं ब्रूहि यत् करिष्यामि भाविता
pratyakṣaṃ mayi jātāyāṃ siddhiḥ kāryasya niścitā | tasmātte vāñchitaṃ brūhi yat kariṣyāmi bhāvitā
When I have become manifest before (you), the accomplishment of the task is assured; therefore tell (me) your wish, which I shall bring about.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
KaP 5.63
।। ब्रह्मोवाच ।। एकश्चरति भूतेशो न द्वितीयां समीहते । तं मोहय यथा दारान् स्वयं स च जिघृक्षति
|| brahmovāca || ekaścarati bhūteśo na dvitīyāṃ samīhate | taṃ mohaya yathā dārān svayaṃ sa ca jighṛkṣati
Brahmā said: The Lord of beings wanders alone; he does not desire a second (i.e. a consort). Delude him, so that he himself may wish to take a wife.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
KaP 5.64
त्वदृते तस्य नो काचिद् भविष्यति मनोहरा । तस्मात्त्वमेकरूपेण भवस्य भव मोहनी
tvadṛte tasya no kācid bhaviṣyati manoharā | tasmāttvamekarūpeṇa bhavasya bhava mohanī
Apart from you there will be no woman charming to him; therefore do you, in a single form, become the deluder of Bhava.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
KaP 5.65
यथा धृतशरीरा त्वं लक्ष्मीरूपेण केशवम् । आमोदयसि विश्वस्य हितायैतं तथा कुरु
yathā dhṛtaśarīrā tvaṃ lakṣmīrūpeṇa keśavam | āmodayasi viśvasya hitāyaitaṃ tathā kuru
Just as you, having assumed a body in the form of Lakṣmī, delight Keśava, so do to him, for the good of the universe.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
KaP 5.66
कान्ताभिलाषमात्रं मे निनिन्द वृषभध्वजः । कथं पुनः स वनितां स्वेच्छया संग्रहीष्यति
kāntābhilāṣamātraṃ me nininda vṛṣabhadhvajaḥ | kathaṃ punaḥ sa vanitāṃ svecchayā saṃgrahīṣyati
The bull-bannered one censured my mere longing for a wife; how then will he of his own will take a woman?
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
KaP 5.67
हरेऽगृहीतकान्ते तु कथं सृष्टिः प्रवर्तते । आद्यन्तमध्यहेतौ च तस्मिञ्छम्भौ विरागिणि
hare'gṛhītakānte tu kathaṃ sṛṣṭiḥ pravartate | ādyantamadhyahetau ca tasmiñchambhau virāgiṇi
But if Hara does not take a wife, how does creation proceed—when that Śambhu, who is the cause of (the world's) beginning, end, and middle, is free of passion?
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
KaP 5.68
इति चिन्तापरो नाहं त्वदन्यं शरणन्त्विह । लव्धवांस्तेन विश्वस्य हितायैतत् कुरुस्व मे
iti cintāparo nāhaṃ tvadanyaṃ śaraṇantviha | lavdhavāṃstena viśvasya hitāyaitat kurusva me
Absorbed in this anxiety, I have found here no refuge other than you; therefore do this for me, for the good of the universe.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
KaP 5.69
न विष्णुरस्य मोहाय न लक्ष्मीर्न मनोभवः । न चाप्यहं जगन्मातस्तस्मात् त्वं मोहयेश्वरम्
na viṣṇurasya mohāya na lakṣmīrna manobhavaḥ | na cāpyahaṃ jaganmātastasmāt tvaṃ mohayeśvaram
Neither Viṣṇu, nor Lakṣmī, nor the mind-born (Kāma), nor I myself (can serve) for his deluding, O Mother of the world; therefore you delude the Lord.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
KaP 5.70
कीर्तिस्त्वं सर्वभूतानां यथा त्वं ह्रीर्यतात्मनाम् । यथा विष्णोः प्रियैका त्वं तथा सन्मोहयेश्वरम्
kīrtistvaṃ sarvabhūtānāṃ yathā tvaṃ hrīryatātmanām | yathā viṣṇoḥ priyaikā tvaṃ tathā sanmohayeśvaram
You are the fame of all beings, as you are the modesty of the self-controlled; as you alone are the beloved of Viṣṇu, so thoroughly delude the Lord.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
KaP 5.71
।। मार्कण्डेय उवाच ।। अथ ब्रह्माणमाभाष्य काली योगमयी पुनः। यदुवाच महाभागास्तच्छृण्वन्तु द्विजोत्तमाः
|| mārkaṇḍeya uvāca || atha brahmāṇamābhāṣya kālī yogamayī punaḥ| yaduvāca mahābhāgāstacchṛṇvantu dvijottamāḥ
Mārkaṇḍeya said: Now, what Kālī, made of yoga, said again in reply to Brahmā—hear that, O greatly blessed ones, O best of the twice-born.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition