शतनामस्तोत्रम्The hymn of a hundred names
Verse 32
क्रीँ ह्रीँ श्रीँ मन्त्रवर्णेन कालकण्टकघातिनी । इत्याद्याकालिकादेव्याः शतनाम प्रकीर्त्तितम् ॥ ३२ ॥
krīm̐ hrīm̐ śrīm̐ mantravarṇēna kālakaṇṭakaghātinī | ityādyākālikādēvyāḥ śatanāma prakīrttitam || 32 ||
Translation
Kālakaṇṭakaghātinī with the mantra letters krīṁ hrīṁ śrīṁ: thus have been declared the hundred names of the Goddess Ādyā Kālikā,
Word by word
- krīm̐
- krīṁ
- hrīm̐
- hrīṁ
- śrīm̐
- śrīṁ
- mantra
- mantra
- varṇēna
- with the letters
- kāla
- of time
- kaṇṭaka
- the thorn
- ghātinī
- who slays
- iti
- thus
- ādyā
- Ādyā
- kālikā
- Kālikā
- dēvyāḥ
- of the Goddess
- śata
- the hundred
- nāma
- names
- prakīrttitam
- have been declared
Meaning
The last name, with three seeds before it, as the first had: krīṁ hrīṁ śrīṁ Kālakaṇṭakaghātinī, "she who slays the thorn of time", that is, death. Spoken as a mantra: "krīṁ hrīṁ śrīṁ kālakaṇṭakaghātinī". The hymn thus begins and ends with seed syllables, the same three in reverse order, enclosing the hundred names like a casket. Then the closing statement: these are the hundred names of Ādyā Kālikā.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
See the commentary on verse 31.