Soundarya Lahari Verse 3 — Avidyanam Antah — Complete Lyrics
सौन्दर्यलहरी श्लोक ३ — अविद्यानामन्तः
Sanskrit text with English transliteration and translation
अविद्यानामन्त-स्तिमिर-मिहिरद्वीपनगरी
जडानां चैतन्य-स्तबक-मकरन्द-स्रुतिझरी ।
दरिद्राणां चिन्तामणिगुणनिका जन्मजलधौ
निमग्नानां दंष्ट्रा मुररिपु-वराहस्य भवति ॥ ३॥
avidyānāmanta-stimira-mihiradvīpanagarī
jaḍānāṃ caitanya-stabaka-makaranda-srutijharī |
daridrāṇāṃ cintāmaṇiguṇanikā janmajaladhau
nimagnānāṃ daṃṣṭrā muraripu-varāhasya bhavati || 3||
The dust of Your feet is, for the ignorant, a sunlit city that scatters the inner darkness of nescience; for the dull-minded, a stream of flowing honey from the blossom-cluster of pure consciousness; for the poor, a necklace strung with wish-granting Chintamani gems; and for those drowning in the ocean of birth and death, it is the upraising tusk of Vishnu in His Boar incarnation.
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