पाठ
ॐ नमः शिवाय
oṃ namaḥ śivāya
Salutation to Shiva. The Panchakshara, the five-syllable mantra, the fundamental Shaiva formula.
ॐ नमो भगवते रुद्राय
oṃ namo bhagavate rudrāya
Salutation to the Lord Rudra. (Yajurveda-based; the Shaiva counterpart of the Vaishnava dvadashakshara.)
ॐ तत्पुरुषाय विद्महे महादेवाय धीमहि ।
तन्नो रुद्रः प्रचोदयात् ॥
oṃ tatpuruṣāya vidmahe mahādevāya dhīmahi |
tanno rudraḥ pracodayāt ||
May we know that Supreme Person; may we meditate on Mahadeva; may that Rudra impel us. The Rudra Gayatri, Taittiriya Aranyaka 10.43.1.
ॐ महाकालाय नमः
oṃ mahākālāya namaḥ
Salutation to Mahakala. The principal name-mantra of the Ujjain deity.
ॐ श्री महाकालेश्वराय नमः
oṃ śrī mahākāleśvarāya namaḥ
Salutation to Shri Mahakaleshwara. The temple-specific form used at the Ujjain Jyotirlinga.
ॐ ह्रीं श्रीं महाकालभैरवाय नमः
oṃ hrīṃ śrīṃ mahākālabhairavāya namaḥ
Salutation to Mahakala-Bhairava, with the seed-syllables hrīṃ and śrīṃ. A Tantric form associated with Bhairava worship at Ujjain.
कर्पूरगौरं करुणावतारं संसारसारं भुजगेन्द्रहारम् ।
सदा वसन्तं हृदयारविन्दे भवं भवानीसहितं नमामि ॥
karpūragauraṃ karuṇāvatāraṃ saṃsārasāraṃ bhujagendrahāram |
sadā vasantaṃ hṛdayāravinde bhavaṃ bhavānīsahitaṃ namāmi ||
Camphor-white, the very incarnation of compassion, the essence of worldly existence, wearing the king of serpents as his garland — I bow to Bhava together with Bhavani, who dwells forever in the lotus of my heart. Recited at the conclusion of Shiva aarti.
ॐ त्र्यम्बकं यजामहे सुगन्धिं पुष्टिवर्धनम् ।
उर्वारुकमिव बन्धनान्मृत्योर्मुक्षीय मामृतात् ॥
oṃ tryambakaṃ yajāmahe sugandhiṃ puṣṭivardhanam |
urvārukamiva bandhanānmṛtyormukṣīya māmṛtāt ||
The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra, which is the central mantra of Mahakaleshwar worship. See the separate record 'mahamrityunjaya_mantra' for full apparatus.
कब और कैसे पढ़ा जाता है
Monday is Shiva's day; Pradosha and Mahashivaratri are the great occasions; the month of Shravana is observed throughout. At Mahakaleshwar specifically, the Bhasma Aarti is performed in the pre-dawn brahma-muhurta and is unique to this temple. Nagapanchami opens the Nagachandreshwar shrine. Standard japa counts: 108 (one mala), 1,008, or 11,000 for an anushthana.
पाठ के बारे में
| रचयिता | No single author. These are traditional formulae drawn from the Vedic Samhitas, the Puranas and later stotra literature. |
|---|---|
| काल | Ranges from the second millennium BCE (Mahamrityunjaya, Rigveda 7.59.12) through the Vedic Aranyakas (Rudra Gayatri, Taittiriya Aranyaka 10.43.1) to the Puranic period. All pre-modern. |
| भाषा | Sanskrit (Vedic for the Rudra Gayatri and Mahamrityunjaya; Puranic/Tantric for the rest) |
पाठभेद
अलग-अलग संस्करणों में कुछ पंक्तियाँ भिन्न हैं। हम दोनों पाठ स्रोत सहित दे रहे हैं और चुपचाप एक नहीं चुनते।
| item 7 | संसारसारं — most printed texts संसारसारम् — pausal form in some prints |
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| item 6 | ॐ ह्रीं श्रीं महाकालभैरवाय नमः — common Tantric form various bija combinations — Tantric sources differ |
स्रोत
- https://sa.wikisource.org/wiki/ऋग्वेदः_सूक्तं_७.५९
- https://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_shiva/
- https://archive.org/details/MahakalshanimrityunjayaStotra