प्रोक्षणमन्त्रम्The sprinkling mantras
Verse 132
संक्रम त्वां प्रोक्षयामि लोकानां संक्रमं यथा । ददासीह तथा स्वर्गे संक्रमो मे प्रदीयताम् ॥ १३२ ॥
saṁkrama tvāṁ prōkṣayāmi lōkānāṁ saṁkramaṁ yathā | dadāsīha tathā svargē saṁkramō mē pradīyatām || 132 ||
Translation
"O causeway, I sprinkle you. As you give people a crossing here, so let a crossing be given to me in heaven."
Word by word
- saṁkrama
- O causeway
- tvāṁ
- you
- prōkṣayāmi
- I sprinkle
- lōkānāṁ
- to people
- saṁkramaṁ
- a crossing
- yathā
- as
- dadāsi
- you give
- iha
- here
- tathā
- so
- svargē
- in heaven
- saṁkramaḥ
- (saṅkramaḥ) a crossing
- mē
- to me
- pradīyatām
- let be given
Meaning
The commentary explains saṅkrama as a kind of bridge, "that on which people step well"; the prayer turns the crossing over water into a passage to heaven.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Now he tells the mantra for sprinkling a causeway (saṅkrama), "saṅkrama tvāṁ prokṣayāmi". That on which people step well, set their feet properly (saṅkramyate), is a saṅkrama, a particular kind of bridge; "saṅkrama" is its vocative. Saṅkramam: a good passage across.