तां दुर्गां दुर्गमां देवीं दुराचारविघातिनीम्। नमामि भवभीतोऽहं संसारार्णवतारिणीम् ॥ २५ ॥
tāṁ durgāṁ durgamāṁ dēvīṁ durācāravighātinīm | namāmi bhavabhītō’haṁ saṁsārārṇavatāriṇīm || 25 ||
Translation
Afraid of the round of existence, I bow to that Durgā, the Goddess hard to reach, destroyer of evil conduct, who carries us across the ocean of saṁsāra.
Word by word
- tām
- that
- durgām
- Durgā
- durgamām
- hard to reach
- dēvīm
- Goddess
- durācāravighātinīm
- destroyer of evil conduct
- namāmi
- I bow
- bhavabhītaḥ
- afraid of the round of existence
- aham
- I
- saṁsārārṇavatāriṇīm
- who carries across the ocean of saṁsāra
Meaning
The reciter speaks in the first person, as one afraid of endless birth and death. Durgā, whose name means “hard to reach”, is also the one who carries the devotee across.