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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 5.112

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Ullāsa 5 · Verse 112

Verse 112

पञ्चाशल्लिपिभिर्विभक्तमुखदोःपन्मध्यवक्षःस्थलां भास्वन्मौलिनिवद्धचन्द्रशकलामापीनतुङ्गस्तनीम् । मुद्रामक्षगुणं सुधाढ्यकलशं विद्याञ्च हस्ताम्बुजै- र्विभ्राणां विषदप्रभां त्रिनयनां वाग्देवतामाश्रये ॥ ११२ ॥

pañcāśallipibhirvibhaktamukhadōḥpanmadhyavakṣaḥsthalāṁ bhāsvanmaulinivaddhacandraśakalāmāpīnatuṅgastanīm | mudrāmakṣaguṇaṁ sudhāḍhyakalaśaṁ vidyāñca hastāmbujai- rvibhrāṇāṁ viṣadaprabhāṁ trinayanāṁ vāgdēvatāmāśrayē || 112 ||

Translation

"I take refuge in the goddess of speech, whose face, arms, feet, waist and breast are formed of the fifty letters; a crescent moon set in her shining crown; with full, high breasts; holding in her lotus hands the mudrā of knowledge, the rosary, a jar full of nectar and a book; radiant, three-eyed."

Word by word

pañcāśallipibhirvibhaktamukhadōḥpanmadhyavakṣaḥsthalāṁ
whose face, arms, feet, waist and breast are formed of the fifty letters
bhāsvanmaulinivaddhacandraśakalāmāpīnatuṅgastanīm
with a crescent moon set in her shining crown, with full, high breasts
mudrāmakṣaguṇaṁ
the mudrā, the rosary
sudhāḍhyakalaśaṁ
a jar full of nectar
vidyāñca
and a book
hastāmbujai-
in her lotus hands
rvibhrāṇāṁ
holding
viṣadaprabhāṁ
radiant
trinayanāṁ
three-eyed
vāgdēvatāmāśrayē
I take refuge in the goddess of speech

Meaning

The dhyāna of Mātṛkā Sarasvatī, in a longer metre.