शतनामस्तोत्रम्The hymn of a hundred names
Verse 18
किशोरी कलकण्ठा च कलनादनिनादिनी । कादम्बरीपानरता तथा कादम्बरीप्रिया ॥ १८ ॥
kiśōrī kalakaṇṭhā ca kalanādaninādinī | kādambarīpānaratā tathā kādambarīpriyā || 18 ||
Translation
Kiśorī, Kalakaṇṭhā and Kalanādaninādinī, Kādambarīpānaratā and Kādambarīpriyā;
Word by word
- kiśōrī
- Kiśorī, the young maiden
- kala
- sweet-sounding
- kaṇṭhā
- whose throat
- ca
- and
- nāda
- with notes
- ninādinī
- who resounds
- kādambarī
- kādambarī wine
- pāna
- in drinking
- ratā
- who delights
- tathā
- and
- priyā
- to whom dear
Meaning
Kiśorī: the young maiden. Kalakaṇṭhā: the commentary, she whose throat utters a deep, sweet sound. Kalanādaninādinī: she who resounds with sweet notes. Then two names on kādambarī, a wine distilled from kadamba flowers: she who delights in drinking it and to whom it is dear. Wine is one of the five tattvas of Kaula worship, and the hymn names it without embarrassment as dear to the Goddess. What the Tantra prescribes here is its own teaching, given as the text presents it; taking up any practice is a matter for one's tradition and teacher.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Kalakaṇṭhā: she whose throat (kaṇṭha) is kala, uttering a deep, sweet sound.