श्रीपात्रस्थापनम्Setting up the śrīpātra
Verse 32
विशेषार्घ्यजलैः शेषं पूरयित्वा समाहितः । षोडशस्वरबीजेन नाममन्त्रेण पूजयेत् । सचतुर्थीनमोऽन्तेन कलाः सोमस्य षोडश ॥ ३२ ॥
viśēṣārghyajalaiḥ śēṣaṁ pūrayitvā samāhitaḥ | ṣōḍaśasvarabījēna nāmamantrēṇa pūjayēt | sacaturthīnamō’ntēna kalāḥ sōmasya ṣōḍaśa || 32 ||
Translation
Having filled the rest with water of the special arghya, attentive, he should worship the sixteen kalās of the moon with the seeds of the sixteen vowels and their name-mantras in the dative ending in namaḥ.
Word by word
- viśēṣa
- special
- arghya
- arghya
- jalaiḥ
- with the water
- śēṣaṁ
- the rest
- pūrayitvā
- having filled
- samāhitaḥ
- attentive
- ṣōḍaśa
- sixteen
- svara
- vowel
- bījēna
- with the seed
- nāma
- name
- mantrēṇa
- with the mantra
- pūjayēt
- should worship
- sa
- with
- caturthī
- the dative
- namō
- (namaḥ) namaḥ
- antēna
- ending in
- kalāḥ
- kalās
- sōmasya
- of the moon
Meaning
The moon's sixteen digits each take a vowel as seed, from aṁ to aḥ.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Samāhita: attentive. Having filled the remaining fourth part of the arghya vessel with the water of the special arghya, he should worship in the water of the arghya vessel the sixteen kalās of the moon, each with its name-mantra in the dative ending in namaḥ, joined with the seed of one of the sixteen vowels with the anusvāra.