शतनामस्तोत्रम्The hymn of a hundred names
Verse 31
कामबीजजपानन्दा कामबीजस्वरूपिणी । कुमतिघ्नी कुलीनार्त्तिनाशिनी कुलकामिनी ॥ ३१ ॥
kāmabījajapānandā kāmabījasvarūpiṇī | kumatighnī kulīnārttināśinī kulakāminī || 31 ||
Translation
Kāmabījajapānandā, Kāmabījasvarūpiṇī, Kumatighnī, Kulīnārtināśinī, Kulakāminī;
Word by word
- kāma
- of desire
- bīja
- of the seed
- japa
- in the japa
- ānandā
- who rejoices
- svarūpiṇī
- whose form is
- kumati
- wrong thinking
- ghnī
- destroyer of
- kulīna
- of those of the kula
- ārtti
- the suffering
- nāśinī
- who ends
- kula
- of the kula
- kāminī
- the beloved
Meaning
Kāmabīja, the seed of desire, is klīṁ, as the commentary says. She rejoices in its japa and is herself its form. Kumatighnī: destroyer of wrong thinking. Kulīnārtināśinī: she who ends the suffering of those of the kula. Kulakāminī: the beloved of the kula, or she who loves it. Klīṁ is the seed of attraction and love; that she is its very form (svarūpiṇī) says that the mantra is not a means of reaching her, but she herself in sound.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Kāmabīja-japānandā: she whose joy (ānanda) is in the japa of the kāmabīja, the seed klīṁ. (This explanation covers verses 31 and 32.)