ककारकूटस्तवमाहात्म्यम्The greatness of the hymn made of the letter ka
Verse 9
असौभाग्यप्रशमनं सुखसम्पद्विवर्द्धनम् । अकालमृत्युहरणं सर्वापद्विनिवारणम् ॥ ९ ॥
asaubhāgyapraśamanaṁ sukhasampadvivarddhanam | akālamṛtyuharaṇaṁ sarvāpadvinivāraṇam || 9 ||
Translation
It quells misfortune, increases happiness and wealth, takes away untimely death and wards off every calamity;
Word by word
- asaubhāgya
- misfortune
- praśamanaṁ
- it quells
- sukha
- happiness
- sampad
- (sampad) and wealth
- vivarddhanam
- increases
- akāla
- untimely
- mṛtyu
- death
- haraṇaṁ
- takes away
- sarva
- every
- āpad
- (āpad) calamity
- vinivāraṇam
- wards off
Meaning
The fruits continue, now very concrete: the end of ill luck (asaubhāgya), the growth of happiness and prosperity, protection from untimely death (akāla-mṛtyu) and from every kind of calamity (āpad). Hymns of this kind speak to whole human lives, with their fears of illness, poverty and early death, and do not separate the spiritual from the everyday. The sentence runs on into verse 10.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
See the commentary on verse 8.