ककारकूटकीर्त्तनफलम्The fruit of reciting the hymn of ka
Verse 48
सर्वत्र विजयस्तस्य न कुत्रापि पराभवः । तस्य दर्शनमात्रेण पलायन्ते विपद्गणाः ॥ ४८ ॥
sarvatra vijayastasya na kutrāpi parābhavaḥ | tasya darśanamātrēṇa palāyantē vipadgaṇāḥ || 48 ||
Translation
Victory is his everywhere, defeat nowhere; at the mere sight of him hosts of misfortunes flee.
Word by word
- sarvatra
- everywhere
- vijayas
- (vijayaḥ) victory
- tasya
- his; of him
- na
- not
- kutrāpi
- anywhere
- parābhavaḥ
- defeat
- darśana
- at the sight
- mātrēṇa
- mere
- palāyantē
- flee
- vipad
- (vipat) of misfortunes
- gaṇāḥ
- hosts
Meaning
The reciter becomes a kind of protection himself: misfortunes run at the sight of him. The image turns the protected into a protector, a common movement in such texts.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
See the commentary on verse 44.