पञ्चामृतम्The five nectars
Verse 130
वाग्भवं मदनं लक्ष्मीं मायां कूर्च्चं पुरन्दरम् । पञ्चद्रव्योपरि शिवे प्रजप्य पञ्च पञ्चधा । एकीकृत्याऽमृतान्यत्र प्राशयेद्दयितां पतिः ॥ १३० ॥
vāgbhavaṁ madanaṁ lakṣmīṁ māyāṁ kūrccaṁ purandaram | pañcadravyōpari śivē prajapya pañca pañcadhā | ēkīkṛtyā’mṛtānyatra prāśayēddayitāṁ patiḥ || 130 ||
Translation
Reciting the vāgbhava, madana, lakṣmī, māyā, kūrca and purandara five times each over the five substances, O Śivā, the husband mixes the nectars into one and gives them to his beloved to eat.
Word by word
- vāgbhavaṁ
- the vāgbhava (aiṁ)
- madanaṁ
- madana (klīṁ)
- lakṣmīṁ
- lakṣmī (śrīṁ)
- māyāṁ
- māyā (hrīṁ)
- kūrccaṁ
- kūrca (hūṁ)
- purandaram
- purandara (laṁ)
- pañca
- five
- dravya
- substances
- upari
- over
- śivē
- O Śivā
- prajapya
- having recited
- pañcadhā
- five times
- ēkīkṛtya
- having mixed into one
- amṛtāni
- the nectars
- atra
- here
- prāśayēt
- (prāśayet) should give to eat
- dayitāṁ
- his beloved
- patiḥ
- the husband
Meaning
Decoded: vāgbhava aiṁ, madana (Kāma) klīṁ, lakṣmī śrīṁ, māyā hrīṁ, kūrca hūṁ, purandara (Indra) laṁ. The six seeds, "aiṁ klīṁ śrīṁ hrīṁ hūṁ laṁ", are said five times over each of the five substances; laṁ, the seed of earth and of Indra, gives firmness.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Vāgbhavam" and the rest. Over each of the five substances, sugar and the rest, reciting the seeds vāgbhava, aiṁ, madana, klīṁ, lakṣmī, śrīṁ, māyā, hrīṁ, kūrca, hūṁ, and purandara, laṁ, five times each, the husband, mixing the nectars, sugar and the rest, into one, should give it here, in the fifth month, to his beloved wife to eat.