ककारकूटकीर्त्तनफलम्The fruit of reciting the hymn of ka
Verse 55
श्रीसदाशिव उवाच । कथितं परमं ब्रह्मप्रकृतेः स्तवनं महत् । आद्यायाः श्रीकालिकायाः कवचं शृणु साम्प्रतम् ॥ ५५ ॥
śrīsadāśiva uvāca | kathitaṁ paramaṁ brahmaprakṛtēḥ stavanaṁ mahat | ādyāyāḥ śrīkālikāyāḥ kavacaṁ śṛṇu sāmpratam || 55 ||
Translation
Śrī Sadāśiva said: The great praise of the supreme Brahma-Prakṛti has been told; now hear the armour of Ādyā, glorious Kālikā.
Word by word
- śrī
- glorious
- sadāśiva
- Sadāśiva
- uvāca
- said
- kathitaṁ
- has been told
- paramaṁ
- supreme
- brahma
- of Brahma-
- prakṛtēḥ
- Prakṛti
- stavanaṁ
- the praise
- mahat
- great
- ādyāyāḥ
- of Ādyā
- kālikāyāḥ
- Kālikā
- kavacaṁ
- the armour
- śṛṇu
- hear
- sāmpratam
- now
Meaning
Śiva passes from the hymn to the armour, which the Goddess had asked for earlier (verse 7), as the commentary notes. He calls her "Brahma-Prakṛti", the Prakṛti who is Brahman: in this Tantra the Goddess is not a power separate from the absolute but the absolute itself as power.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
Urged earlier by Pārvatī to tell the armour (kavaca), Śrī Sadāśiva spoke, beginning "kathitam…". (This explanation covers verses 55 and 56.)