प्रोक्षणमन्त्रम्The sprinkling mantras
Verse 130
फलैः पत्रैश्च शाखाद्यैश्छायाभिश्च प्रियङ्कराः । यच्छन्तु मेऽखिलान् कामान् प्रोक्षितास्तीर्थवारिभिः ॥ १३० ॥
phalaiḥ patraiśca śākhādyaiśchāyābhiśca priyaṅkarāḥ | yacchantu mē’khilān kāmān prōkṣitāstīrthavāribhiḥ || 130 ||
Translation
"Dear to all through your fruits, leaves, branches and shade, may you, sprinkled with holy water, grant me all my desires."
Word by word
- phalaiḥ
- (phalaiḥ) through fruits
- patraiḥ
- (patraiḥ) leaves
- ca
- and
- śākhā
- branches
- ādyaiḥ
- (ādyaiḥ) and the rest
- chāyābhiḥ
- (chāyābhiḥ) and shade
- priyaṅkarāḥ
- (priyaṅkarāḥ) giving joy
- yacchantu
- may you grant
- mē
- me
- akhilān
- (akhilān) all
- kāmān
- desires
- prōkṣitāḥ
- (prokṣitāḥ) sprinkled
- tīrtha
- holy
- vāribhiḥ
- (vāribhiḥ) with water
Meaning
The mantra for a garden; the plural addresses all its trees together.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Now he tells the mantra for sprinkling a garden, "phalaiḥ patraiś ca śākhādyaiḥ".