पुंसवनम्Puṁsavana
Verse 124
पूर्ववच्चरुमादाय मायां कूर्च्चं समुच्चरन् । ये गर्भविघ्नकर्त्तारो ये च गर्भविनाशकाः ॥ १२४ ॥
pūrvavaccarumādāya māyāṁ kūrccaṁ samuccaran | yē garbhavighnakarttārō yē ca garbhavināśakāḥ || 124 ||
Translation
Taking caru as before and uttering māyā and kūrca: "Those who obstruct the embryo, those who destroy it,
Word by word
- pūrvavat
- (pūrvavat) as before
- carum
- (carum) caru
- ādāya
- having taken
- māyāṁ
- māyā (hrīṁ)
- kūrccaṁ
- kūrca (hūṁ)
- samuccaran
- uttering
- yē
- those who
- garbha
- of the embryo
- vighna
- obstruction
- karttāraḥ
- (kartāraḥ) the makers
- ca
- and
- vināśakāḥ
- (vināśakāḥ) destroyers
Meaning
A protective mantra against the beings that threaten pregnancy. It opens with hrīṁ (māyā) and hūṁ (kūrca), the seed of wrath that drives off what is hostile.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Pūrvavat". As before, taking caru in the sruva and uttering the seeds māyā, hrīṁ, and kūrca, hūṁ, he should utter the sentence "ye garbha" and the rest, up to "tān sarvān"; then he should utter the pair "nāśaya" (nāśaya nāśaya); then say "garbharakṣāṁ kuru"; then dviṭha, svāhā. Putting all the words together the mantra is: hrīṁ hūṁ ye garbhavighnakartāro ye ca garbhavināśakā bhūtāḥ pretāḥ piśācāś ca vetālā bālaghātakās tān sarvān nāśaya nāśaya garbharakṣāṁ kuru svāhā. With this mantra, thinking of the fire as rakṣoghna, under the name Rakṣoghna (slayer of demons), and meditating on Rudra and Prajāpati, he should give twelve oblations.