राज्ञ्युवाच जय जन्मजराज्वालादाहदोषशशिप्रभे । जय हार्दान्धकारौघनिवारणरविप्रभे ॥ ३७ ॥
rājñyuvāca jaya janmajarājvālādāhadōṣaśaśiprabhē | jaya hārdāndhakāraughanivāraṇaraviprabhē || 37 ||
Translation
The queen said: "Victory to you, with the moon's light against the burning flames of birth and old age! Victory to you, with the sun's light that drives away the masses of the heart's darkness!
Word by word
- jaya
- victory to you
- janma
- of birth
- jarā
- and old age
- jvālā
- flames
- dāha
- burning
- dōṣa
- against the
- śaśi
- moon’s
- prabhē
- with the light
- hārda
- of the heart
- andhakāra
- darkness
- ōgha
- the masses
- nivāraṇa
- that drives away
- ravi
- sun’s
Meaning
The commentary: the queen said, Blessed One, you are cool moonlight that removes the fever of the flames of birth and age; victory to you, that is, I bow at your feet. Mother, you are like sunlight in destroying the dense darkness of the heart, ignorance. The two lines of the hymn have fifteen syllables a pāda, unlike the anuṣṭubh around them; the praise names the goddess as cure for exactly the fear Līlā has: birth, age and the darkness that hides the Self.