देवगेहप्रतिष्ठाThe installation of a temple
Verse 193
प्राग्वन्मूलं समुच्चार्य सावित्रीं प्रणवं स्मरन् । देवप्रियेण हविषा आयुःशुक्रेण तेजसा । स्नानं ते कल्पयामीश मामरोगं सदा कुरु ॥ १९३ ॥
prāgvanmūlaṁ samuccārya sāvitrīṁ praṇavaṁ smaran | dēvapriyēṇa haviṣā āyuḥśukrēṇa tējasā | snānaṁ tē kalpayāmīśa māmarōgaṁ sadā kuru || 193 ||
Translation
Uttering the root mantra as before and remembering the Sāvitrī and the praṇava: "With clarified butter dear to the gods, life's vigour and brilliance, I prepare your bath, O Lord; keep me ever free of disease."
Word by word
- prāgvat
- (prāgvat) as before
- mūlaṁ
- the root mantra
- samuccārya
- uttering
- sāvitrīṁ
- the Sāvitrī
- praṇavaṁ
- and the praṇava
- smaran
- remembering
- dēva
- to the gods
- priyēṇa
- dear
- haviṣā
- with clarified butter
- āyuḥ
- (āyuḥ) life's
- śukrēṇa
- vigour
- tējasā
- brilliance
- snānaṁ
- bath
- tē
- your
- kalpayāmi
- I prepare
- īśa
- O Lord
- mām
- me
- arōgaṁ
- free of disease
- sadā
- ever
- kuru
- keep
Meaning
The fourth bath, ghee. The commentary reads "āyuḥśukreṇa" and "tejasā" as qualities of the ghee: it increases life and vigour and makes bright.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Prāgvat" and the rest. Uttering the root mantra as before, then remembering the Sāvitrī, the Gāyatrī, and the praṇava, the oṁkāra, and remembering "devapriyeṇa haviṣā āyuḥśukreṇa tejasā snānaṁ te kalpayāmīśa mām arogaṁ sadā kuru" (with clarified butter dear to the gods, the vigour of life and its brilliance, I prepare your bath, O Lord; keep me ever free of disease), the doer should bathe the deity with ghee. Āyuḥśukreṇa: that which increases life and vigour. Tejasā: that which increases brilliance.