A Microcosm's Prayer(Slokha) -46 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Sloka, is the most common Sanskrit meter and is a descendant of the older Vedic gayatri
The sloka, meaning 'song', although metric, is not considered poetic.
It functions more as the equivalent to Western prose with lines and meter and
is often used in narratives or epics.

The defining features of the sloka are:
stanzaic, written in any number of couplets made up of 2 hemistiches.
The hemistiches can be broken into 4 lines or padas creating quatrains,4 lines or padas
syllabic, either 2 lines of 16 syllables each or 4 hemistiches of 8 syllables each.
metric, alternate hemistiches of trochaic and iambic patterns.

The following verses are my own work, a prayer, based on the great slokha 'Lalitha Sahasranamam'
where the meaningful thousand names of Adi Para Sakthi(primordial cosmic Energy)
are narrated.These verses are not literal or exact translation of the slokha.But I referred to
the translation of the great slokha by Mr.P. R. Ramachander

(Please read the previous parts of this series before reading this)

136 The primal sacred Pranava
From whose mouth flow all sounds, thee who's
That Pranava, its phonic tones
And intonations, so art called

Nadha roopini.Thee who's the
Creator of Science for the whole
who is the Law of all sciences
Who Herself is the Science Of all

So'rt called Vignana kalana
For thy creational skill thee
Who's reckoned with, who's reckoned with
For the skill of arts all, so'rt called

Kalya.Thee whose adept skill shows
Her supreme wisdom art so called
Vidhagdha.On the centre spot
The Bindhu of Sahasrara

Thee who's seated so art known as
Baindavasana.Thee who is
Beyond cosmic realities
Art so known as Tathwadhika

Yet thou'rt the universal Truth
So art thee called Tatwa mayee
Who's the form of That and Thee, so's
Tatwamartha swaroopini

Namaste Mother namaste
Divine Mother, unto thy feet
This tiny droplet surrenders
Rise my size within me, I watch


137 The chanting of sama veda
Thee who adores art so known as
Sama gana priya.Thee who's
Peaceful and serene like full moon

So'rt called Soumya.Sadashiva
Thee the consort of Him, so'rt called
Sada shiva kutumbini
Who is attained by both savya

And apasavya paths, the right
And left paths, thou art so known as
Savyapa savya margastha
Thee who saves us from all perils

Who wards off all the dangers, so'rt
Sarvaapad vinivarini
Fixed within entranced by thyself
Thou art so aptly called Swastha

Who's pleasingly sweet by nature
Thou'rt so Swabhava madura
Thee who has the supreme wisdom
Who has the supreme cognizance

Art so greatly known as Dheera
Who's worshipped by the wise staunchly
With firm fortitude, thou'rt so called
Dheera samarchita.To thee

Namaste Mother namaste
Divine Mother, unto thy feet
This tiny droplet surrenders
Rise my size within me, I watch


138 Chaithanya the full consciousness
Thee who's worshipped by thy bhaktas
With such full wakeful state of mind
So'rt thee greatly known by the name

Chaithanyarkya samaradhya
The flower that blossoms from one's
Cognizance thee who likes it, so'rt
Chaitanya kusuma priya

Who's present agelessly blazing
So'rt thee greatly known by the name
Saddothitha.To such Mother
Powerful and great, namaste

Oh thee, divine our sweet Mother
Thou art beautiful the bestest
Thou art our brave queen the bestest
Thou art our Wisdom the bestest

Thou art our Strength sole the bestest
The Support for mind the bestest
The Support for life the bestest
Thou art all Force the mightiest

So to thee Mother, namaste
The Power of all, namaste
The causer of all, namaste
Creatrix of all, namaste

Namaste Mother namaste
Divine Mother, unto thy feet
This tiny droplet surrenders
Rise my size within me, I watch

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Note: Translation by Mr.P.R Ramachander
Naamaas901-920

* 901 * Nadha roopini - She who is the form of sound
* 902 * Vignana kalana - She who makes science
* 903 * Kalya - She who is expert in arts
* 904 * Vidhagdha - She who is an expert
* 905 * Baindavasana - She who sits in the dot of the thousand petalled lotus
* 906 * Tathwadhika - She who is above all metaphysics
* 907 * Tatwa mayee - She who is Metaphysics
* 908 * Tatwa Martha swaroopini - She who is personification of this and that
* 909 * Sama gana priya - She who likes singing of sama
* 910 * Soumya - She who is peaceful or She who is as pretty as the moon
* 911 * Sada shiva kutumbini - She who is consort of Sada shiva
* 912 * Savyapa savya margastha - 'She who is birth, death and living or
She who likes the priestly and tantric methods'
* 913 * Sarva apadvi nivarini - She who removes all dangers
* 914 * Swastha - She who has everything within her or She who is peaceful
* 915 * Swabhava madura - She who is by nature sweet
* 916 * Dheera - She who is courageous
* 917 * Dheera samarchida - She who is being worshipped by the courageous
* 918 * Chaithanyarkya samaradhya - She who is worshipped by the ablation of water
* 919 * Chaitanya kusuma priya - She who likes the never fading flowers
* 920 * Saddothitha - She who never sets