गतास्ते मञ्चत्वं द्रुहिणहरिरुद्रेश्वरभृतः शिवः स्वच्छच्छायाघटितकपटप्रच्छदपटः। त्वदीयानां भासां प्रतिफलनरागारुणतया शरीरी शृङ्गारो रस इव दृशां दोग्धि कुतुकम्॥
gatās tē mañcatvaṁ druhiṇa-hari-rudrēśvara-bhṛtaḥ śivaḥ svaccha-cchāyā-ghaṭita-kapaṭa-pracchada-paṭaḥ। tvadīyānāṁ bhāsāṁ pratiphalana-rāgāruṇatayā śarīrī śṛṅgārō rasa iva dṛśāṁ dōgdhi kutukam॥
Translation
Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, and Ishvara have become your couch, O Shiva, with a clear shadow-formed deceitful cloth. Your splendors’ red-hued reflections, like embodied love-sentiment, milk delight from eyes.
Word by word
- gatāḥ
- gone
- tē
- your
- mañcatvaṁ
- couch-state
- druhiṇa
- Brahma
- hari
- Vishnu
- rudra
- Rudra
- īśvara
- Ishvara
- bhṛtaḥ
- borne
- śivaḥ
- Shiva
- svaccha
- clear
- cchāyā
- shadow
- ghaṭita
- formed
- kapaṭa
- deceit
- pracchada-paṭaḥ
- concealing cloth
- tvadīyānāṁ
- your
- bhāsāṁ
- splendors
- pratiphalana
- reflection
- rāgāruṇatayā
- with red hue
- śarīrī
- embodied
- śṛṅgārō
- love
- rasa
- sentiment
- iva
- like
- dṛśāṁ
- of eyes
- dōgdhi
- milks
- kutukam
- delight
Meaning
The Goddess is enthroned on a couch formed by Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, and Ishvara (druhiṇa-hari-rudrēśvara-bhṛtaḥ), with Shiva (śivaḥ) as a deceptive cloth (kapaṭa-pracchada-paṭaḥ). Her radiant beauty (tvadīyānāṁ bhāsāṁ), reflected red (rāgāruṇatayā), evokes love (śṛṅgāra-rasa), delighting onlookers (dṛśāṁ kutukam). In Śrīvidyā, she is supreme Parāśakti. The verse reflects Shakta devotion, portraying her as the cosmic queen radiating divine love.