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Stotra · Shiv ji

The Pradosha prayer IAST

प्रदोष स्तोत्र

28 lines · about 1 min to say · Skanda Purana, Brahmottara Khanda 7.59–66

Shiv ji

Shiv ji

The still centre; Monday's deity

1

jaya deva jagannātha jaya śaṅkara śāśvata .

Victory to you, O Dev, lord of the world; victory to you, Shankar, the eternal;

jaya sarvasurādhyakṣa jaya sarvasurārcita .

victory to you, head of all the Devas; victory to you, to whom every Deva offers puja.

2

jaya sarvaguṇātīta jaya sarvavaraprada .

Victory to you, beyond every quality; victory to you, giver of every boon;

jaya nitya nirādhāra jaya viśvambharāvyaya .

victory to you, eternal, resting on nothing; victory to you, who hold up the world and never wane.

3

jaya viśvaikavedyeśa jaya nāgendrabhūṣaṇa .

Victory to you, the one to be known in all the world; victory to you, who wear the king of serpents;

jaya gaurīpate śambho jaya candrārdhaśekhara .

victory to you, Shambhu, husband of Gauri; victory to you, with the half moon in your hair.

4

jaya koṭyarkasaṅkāśa jayānantaguṇāśraya .

Victory to you, bright as ten million suns; victory to you, home of endless good;

jaya rudra virūpākṣa jayācintya nirañjana .

victory to you, Rudra of the three eyes; victory to you, beyond thought, without stain.

5

jaya nātha kr̥pāsindho jaya bhaktārtibhañjana .

Victory to you, O Nath, ocean of mercy; victory to you, who break the pain of those who turn to you;

jaya dustarasaṁsārasāgarottāraṇa prabho .

victory to you, Prabhu, who carry us over the sea of this world that cannot be crossed.

6

prasīda me mahādeva saṁsārārtasya khidyataḥ .

Be pleased with me, Mahadev: I am worn and weary with this world.

sarvapāpabhayaṁ hr̥tvā rakṣa māṁ parameśvara .

Take away all the fear my wrongs have brought, and protect me, Parameshwar.

7

mahādāridryamagnasya mahāpāpahatasya ca .

I am sunk in deep poverty and struck by great wrongs,

mahāśokavinaṣṭasya mahārogāturasya ca .

undone by great grief and sick with great illness,

8

r̥ṇabhāraparītasya dahyamānasya karmabhiḥ .

weighed down by debt and burned by what I have done,

grahaiḥ prapīḍyamānasya prasīda mama śaṅkara .

pressed hard by the planets — be pleased with me, Shankar.

9

daridraḥ prārthayedevaṁ pūjānte girijāpatim .

So, at the end of the puja, let the poor pray to the husband of Girija;

arthāḍhyo vāpi rājā vā prārthayeddevamīśvaram .

and let the rich man, or even a king, pray to the Dev, the Ishwar.

10

dīrghamāyuḥ sadārogyaṁ kośavr̥ddhirbalonnatiḥ .

"Long life, health always, a growing store, rising strength —

mamāstu nityamānandaḥ prasādāttava śaṅkara .

and joy always, may these be mine by your grace, Shankar.

11

śatravaḥ saṁkṣayaṁ yāntu prasīdantu mama grahāḥ .

May my enemies come to nothing, and may the grahas be kind to me;

naśyantu dasyavo rāṣṭre janāḥ santu nirāpadaḥ .

may the robbers in the land be gone, and may the people be free of harm.

12

durbhikṣamārīsantāpāḥ śamaṁ yāntu mahītale .

May famine, plague and suffering be stilled on the earth;

sarvasasyasamr̥ddhiśca bhūyātsukhamayā diśaḥ .

may every crop be plentiful, and every direction full of ease."

13

evamārādhayeddevaṁ pradoṣe girijāpatim .

So let one worship the Dev, the husband of Girija, at pradosh;

brāhmaṇānbhojayetpaścāddakṣiṇābhiśca toṣayet .

then feed brahmins, and please them with dakshina.

14

sarvapāpakṣayakarī sarvadāridryanāśinī .

It wipes away every sin and ends every kind of poverty —

śivapūjā mayākhyātā sarvābhīṣṭavarapradā .

this is the puja of Shiv ji I have told you, which grants every wish.