ಕಾಮಾಸಿಕಾಷ್ಟಕಮ್
Kamasika Ashtakam in Kannada · ಕನ್ನಡ
ನಿಮ್ಮ ಭಾಷೆ/ಲಿಪಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಿ
ಮೂಲ & ಕಥೆ
Composed by Sri Vedanta Desika (Stotra literature, Kanchipuram) · Sri Vedanta Desika (Venkatanatha) · c. 13th–14th century CE
At Kanchipuram, near the Ashtabhuja temple on the bank of the river Vegavati, Lord Narasimha is enshrined in the serene Yoga-Narasimha form known as Kamasika. Sri Vedanta Desika, who spent much of his life at Kanchi, composed this eight-verse hymn in praise of this very deity. Rather than dwelling only on the terrifying man-lion who tore apart Hiranyakashipu, Desika reveals the Lord's inner calm and boundless compassion — a yogi seated in meditation, fierce only as a 'disguise' for his grace toward devotees.
✦ ಶಾಸ್ತ್ರಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಹೇಳಿದಂತೆ
Devotees of Kamasika Narasimha hold that the Lord, though fierce enough to rend a demon with his bare claws, is in truth as tender as a mother nursing her child; it is said that sincere recitation of this hymn, especially its closing verse of surrender, draws the Lord's protective grace so completely that no fear or affliction can touch one who has taken refuge in him.
ಅರ್ಥದೊಂದಿಗೆ ಪೂರ್ಣ ಪಾಠ
ಯಾವುದೇ ಸಾಲನ್ನು ಅಥವಾ ▶ ಬಟನ್ ಒತ್ತಿ ಕೇಳಿ
ಶ್ರುತೀನಾಮುತ್ತರಂ ಭಾಗಂ ವೇಗವತ್ಯಾಶ್ಚ ದಕ್ಷಿಣಮ್ । ಕಾಮಾದಧಿವಸನ್ ಜೀಯಾತ್ಕಶ್ಚಿದದ್ಭುತಕೇಸರೀ ॥ ೧ ॥
śrutīnāmuttaraṃ bhāgaṃ vegavatyāścha dakṣiṇam | kāmādadhivasan jīyātkaśchidadbhutakesarī || 1 ||
ಅರ್ಥ:May that wondrous Lion-Lord (Narasimha) be ever glorious, who out of loving desire dwells to the north of the Vedas' crown (the Upanishads) and to the south of the river Vegavati (at Kanchipuram).
ತಪನೇನ್ದ್ವಗ್ನಿನಯನಃ ತಾಪಾನಪಚಿನೋತು ನಃ । ತಾಪನೀಯರಹಸ್ಯಾನಾಂ ಸಾರಃ ಕಾಮಾಸಿಕಾಹರಿಃ ॥ ೨ ॥
tapanendvagninayanaḥ tāpānapachinotu naḥ | tāpanīyarahasyānāṃ sāraḥ kāmāsikāhariḥ || 2 ||
ಅರ್ಥ:May Kamasika Hari — whose three eyes are the sun, moon and fire, and who is the very essence of the secrets of the Nrisimha-tapaniya Upanishad — take away all our afflictions.
ಆಕಣ್ಠಮಾದಿಪುರುಷಂ ಕಣ್ಠೀರವಮುಪರಿ ಕುಣ್ಠಿತಾರಾತಿಮ್ । ವೇಗೋಪಕಣ್ಠಸಙ್ಗಾದ್ವಿಮುಕ್ತವೈಕುಣ್ಠಬಹುಮತಿಮುಪಾಸೇ ॥ ೩ ॥
ākaṇṭhamādipuruṣaṃ kaṇṭhīravamupari kuṇṭhitārātim | vegopakaṇṭhasaṅgādvimuktavaikuṇṭhabahumatimupāse || 3 ||
ಅರ್ಥ:I worship that Primal Person who is man up to the neck and a lion above, who blunts the power of his foes, and who, drawn to the bank of the Vegavati, has set aside even his fondness for Vaikuntha to abide here.
ಬನ್ಧುಮಖಿಲಸ್ಯ ಜನ್ತೋರ್ಬನ್ಧುರಪರ್ಯಙ್ಕಬನ್ಧರಮಣೀಯಮ್ । ವಿಷಮವಿಲೋಚನಮೀಡೇ ವೇಗವತೀಪುಲಿನಕೇಲಿನರಸಿಂಹಮ್ ॥ ೪ ॥
bandhumakhilasya jantorbandhuraparyaṅkabandharamaṇīyam | viṣamavilochanamīḍe vegavatīpulinakelinarasiṃham || 4 ||
ಅರ್ಥ:I extol that fierce-eyed Narasimha who sports on the sandy shore of the Vegavati — the true kinsman of every creature, beautiful as he sits bound in the graceful yogic posture upon his couch.
ಸ್ವಸ್ಥಾನೇಷು ಮರುದ್ಗಣಾನ್ ನಿಯಮಯನ್ ಸ್ವಾಧೀನಸರ್ವೇನ್ದ್ರಿಯಃ ಪರ್ಯಙ್ಕಸ್ಥಿರಧಾರಣಾಪ್ರಕಟಿತಪ್ರತ್ಯಙ್ಮುಖಾವಸ್ಥಿತಿಃ । ಪ್ರಾಯೇಣ ಪ್ರಣಿಪೇದುಷಃ ಪ್ರಭುರಸೌ ಯೋಗಂ ನಿಜಂ ಶಿಕ್ಷಯನ್ ಕಾಮಾನಾತನುತಾದಶೇಷ ಜಗತಾಂ ಕಾಮಾಸಿಕಾ ಕೇಸರೀ ॥ ೫ ॥
svasthāneṣu marudgaṇān niyamayan svādhīnasarvendriyaḥ paryaṅkasthiradhāraṇāprakaṭitapratyaṅmukhāvasthitiḥ | prāyeṇa praṇipeduṣaḥ prabhurasau yogaṃ nijaṃ śikṣayan kāmānātanutādaśeṣa jagatāṃ kāmāsikā kesarī || 5 ||
ಅರ್ಥ:Controlling the vital airs in their seats, master of all his senses, fixed in steady meditation upon his couch and turned inward — this Lord, as though teaching his own yoga to those who bow before him, the Lion of Kamasika, fulfils the desires of all the worlds.
ವಿಕಸ್ವರನಖಸ್ವರುಕ್ಷತಹಿರಣ್ಯವಕ್ಷಃಸ್ಥಲೀ ನಿರರ್ಗಲವಿನಿರ್ಗಲದ್ರುಧಿರಸಿನ್ಧುಸನ್ಧ್ಯಾಯಿತಾಃ । ಅವನ್ತು ಮದನಾಸಿಕಾ ಮನುಜಪಞ್ಚವಕ್ತ್ರಸ್ಯ ಮಾಂ ಅಹಮ್ಪ್ರಥಮಿಕಾ ಮಿಥಃ ಪ್ರಕಟಿತಾಹವಾ ಬಾಹವಃ ॥ ೬ ॥
vikasvaranakhasvarukṣatahiraṇyavakṣaḥsthalī nirargalavinirgaladrudhirasindhusandhyāyitāḥ | avantu madanāsikā manujapañchavaktrasya māṃ ahamprathamikā mithaḥ prakaṭitāhavā bāhavaḥ || 6 ||
ಅರ್ಥ:May the arms of the Man-Lion protect me — those arms that, rivalling one another as if each cried 'I first!', revealed open battle, while his blossoming claws tore open Hiranyakashipu's golden chest so that the unchecked torrent of gushing blood glowed red like the twilight sky.
ಸಟಾಪಟಲಭೀಷಣೇ ಸರಭಸಾಟ್ಟಹಾಸೋದ್ಭಟೇ ಸ್ಫುರತ್ಕ್ರುಧಿಪರಿಸ್ಫುಟಭ್ರುಕುಟಿಕೇಽಪಿ ವಕ್ತ್ರೇ ಕೃತೇ । ಕೃಪಾಕಪಟಕೇಸರಿನ್ ದನುಜಡಿಮ್ಭದತ್ತಸ್ತನಾ ಸರೋಜಸದೃಶಾ ದೃಶಾ ವ್ಯತಿವಿಷಜ್ಯ ತೇ ವ್ಯಜ್ಯತೇ ॥ ೭ ॥
saṭāpaṭalabhīṣaṇe sarabhasāṭṭahāsodbhaṭe sphuratkrudhiparisphuṭabhrukuṭike'pi vaktre kṛte | kṛpākapaṭakesarin danujaḍimbhadattastanā sarojasadṛśā dṛśā vyativiṣajya te vyajyate || 7 ||
ಅರ್ಥ:O Lion whose fierceness is but a mask of grace! Even when your face is made terrible with its mane-like bristling, your roaring laughter and the quivering knit of your wrathful brows, your love shines through — tender as a mother offering her breast to the demon's child, beheld in your lotus-soft eyes.
ತ್ವಯಿ ರಕ್ಷತಿ ರಕ್ಷಕೈಃ ಕಿಮನ್ಯೈಸ್ತ್ವಯಿ ಚಾರಕ್ಷತಿ ರಕ್ಷಕೈಃ ಕಿಮನ್ಯೈಃ । ಇತಿ ನಿಶ್ಚಿತಧೀಃ ಶ್ರಯಾಮಿ ನಿತ್ಯಂ ನೃಹರೇ ವೇಗವತೀತಟಾಶ್ರಯಂ ತ್ವಾಮ್ ॥ ೮ ॥
tvayi rakṣati rakṣakaiḥ kimanyaistvayi chārakṣati rakṣakaiḥ kimanyaiḥ | iti niśchitadhīḥ śrayāmi nityaṃ nṛhare vegavatītaṭāśrayaṃ tvām || 8 ||
ಅರ್ಥ:When you protect, what need of any other guardian? And when you do not protect, what use is any other guardian? Resolved in this conviction, O Narahari, I take eternal refuge in you who abide on the bank of the Vegavati.
ಪದ-ಪದ ಅರ್ಥ
ಉಚ್ಚಾರಣೆ ಕೇಳಲು ಯಾವುದೇ ಪದವನ್ನು ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ
Kamasika Ashtakam ಪಾರಾಯಣದ ಪ್ರಯೋಜನಗಳು
Invokes the protective grace of Yoga-Narasimha, who calms and shields his devotees
A model hymn of prapatti (total surrender) — its final verse expresses complete refuge in the Lord
Believed to remove the three afflictions (tapatraya) — bodily, mental and external sufferings
Distils the secret teaching of the Nrisimha-tapaniya Upanishad into devotional verse
Carries the blessing of Sri Vedanta Desika, the great Sri Vaishnava acharya-poet
Balances the fierce and gracious aspects of Narasimha, inspiring both awe and love
Traditionally recited for protection, fearlessness and steadiness of mind
Kamasika Ashtakam ಪಾರಾಯಣ ವಿಧಿ
Sit calmly facing east before an image of Lord Narasimha, light a lamp and recite the eight verses slowly, picturing the serene Yoga-Narasimha of Kanchi seated in meditation on the bank of the Vegavati. Dwell on the final verse of surrender, offering yourself wholly to the Lord's protection. It is especially recited on Narasimha Jayanti and as a daily prayer for fearlessness.
ಪದೇ ಪದೇ ಕೇಳುವ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗಳು
ಇವನ್ನೂ ಓದಿ
ॐ
ಪೂರ್ಣ Kamasika Ashtakamವನ್ನು ಶ್ಲೋಕ-ಶ್ಲೋಕ ಅರ್ಥದೊಂದಿಗೆ ಓದಿ, ಅಥವಾ ಇನ್ನಷ್ಟು ಪವಿತ್ರ ಪಾಠಗಳನ್ನು ನೋಡಿ