SrI Panjaram

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- samvAdam (conversation). vyAsa-nArada samvAdam Sri HayagrIvaPanjaramispart Vandhanam / namaskaraNam to Him and (3) the recitation of His embedded manthram. manthram. His embedded toHimand(3)therecitationof / namaskaraNam Vandhanam (2) (gaining desiredfruits), HayagrIvan forIshtArTasiddhi OfLord ThirumEni Sri HayagrIvaPanjaram isadelightfulam “Sri LakshmiHayagrivan– Poundarikapuram Andavan Ashramam” Andavan Poundarikapuram “Sri LakshmiHayagrivan– S RI H . ïI hy¢Iv pÃrm! . . ïIhy¢IvpÃrm! of Naarada puraaNam. It has 94 verses and is part of the of the 94versesandispart Naarada puraaNam.Ithas of AYAGR . ïI> . . ïI> I 3 VA

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sadagopan.org sadagopan.org akhaNDa saarair havishAm pradhAnai: havishAm saarair akhaNDa allthe havisto thesesweet You distribute recite (“aatasTivAnmanthram thatthey of thosemanthrams Youstandintheform tongues, flameswithseven sparkling !whenYajamAnAspresent Oh LordHayagrIva (M sapthatanthO: samiddhArchishi agnou Ao{f sarEr! hiv;a< àdanE> AaPyayn< Vyaem sda< ivxTse. 10. zrIrm!, mÙmy< AatiSwvan! sÝtNtae> simÏaicRi; AGnaE HayagrIva SthOthram: salutedin Sareeram” ofLordHyagrIvan This Panjaram of HayagrIvan (HayagrIvasya continously(“ananthai:th limitless vEdAnthams mayamcage”,LordHayagrIvan's “Veda From that of ajn~Anam. thedarkness andbanishes avadhAtha thribhuvanam) dhyuthibhi: His n thethreeworldswith He illumines (likeablemishless prathipaDam” bhUbhruth resides Insidethatopencage . is asacredcagecons panjaram.It manjUshikaa” Panjaram meansacageaswell thebody EANING ): ayam SarIram”) and accept those havis. After that, andacceptthosehavis.Afterthat, SarIram”) ayam DevAs and make them feel contented. feelcontented. makethem DevAs and aatasTivAn manthramayam SarIram SarIram manthramayam aatasTivAn aapyAyanam vyOma sadhAm vidhathsE vidhathsE sadhAm vyOma aapyAyanam ectar-like white radiance (SudhAsadhrIcheebhi: whiteradiance(SudhAsadhrIcheebhi: ectar-like the Lord, who is like “Suddha Spatika MaNi Lord, whoislike“SuddhaSpatika the 4 the tenth slOkam of Swamy Desikan's SrI ofSwamyDesikan's the tenthslOkam Panjaram) pays tribute to “the Mantramayam paystributeto“the Panjaram) rayyanthai: anuvihitha hEshAhalahalam”). anuvihitha rayyanthai: Hala Hala sabdham is heard echoing in the inthe echoing Hala sabdhamisheard tituted by the essence of the meanings of all bytheessenceofmeaningsall tituted the sacred havis in the kuntams with kuntams in theAgni the sacredhavis . The cage here is “nikhila Upanishad . Thecagehereis“nikhilaUpanishad white crystal mountain); from there, white crystalmountain);from aTa kalpam pravakshyAmi HaygrIvasya Panjaram Panjaram HayagrIvan. of Lord Panjaram the describing now commence announcesthathewill Here thevakthrA(speaker) HaygrIvasya M pravakshyAmi kalpam aTa pÃrm hy¢IvSy àvúyaim Aw kLpm! T Let us enjoy the dhyAna-janitha aanandham of the VakthrA of Sri HayagrIva Panjaram. of SriHayagrIva VakthrA ofthe aanandham the dhyAna-janitha Let usenjoy (HayagrIvasya Panjaram). HayagrIvan forward (comm means moving it “pravakshyAmi”, means Iwilldescribe.Whenthepref VakshyAmi Sri HayagrIvaPanjaram.Kalpaal thathewi sacred percept.Thenarratorstates Kalpa meansadayofBrahmaor420million C OMMENTS HE EANING F IRST :

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OF S “Sri LakshmiHayagrivan with Acharyas” “Sri LakshmiHayagrivanwithAcharyas” R I H so stands for the sacred Vedic angam of Kalpa soothrams. soothrams. angamofKalpa sacred Vedic the so standsfor AYAGR I VA 5 P ll commence delivery of the sacred percept of sacred percept ofthe ll commencedelivery years of human beings;Kalpaalsomeansa years ofhuman ANJARAM ix, “Pra” is added to vakshyAmi to become tobecome “Pra”isadded tovakshyAmi ix, encing) to describe the Panjaram of SrI of the Panjaram encing) todescribe

sadagopan.org sadagopan.org with divine vaak that flows in an unimpeded manner. manner. inanunimpeded thatflows vaak with divine Ha AadhAra Moorthy,Sri avathAram. inSriHayagrIva MahA Lakshmi HayagrIvan's (SakalaVidhyAMoorthy's)dhivya pathnee), theGoddessoflearning,who hasbeen isdivinespeech;Italsomean VaaNi here (C nissarEth andspeed. with majesty pravAham GangA like thedescending GangEva By merecomprehensionofthissacredPanjar VaaNi (M vijn~Ana-mAthrENa Yasya inSsret! g¼eev vai[ maÇe[ ySy iv}an 2 ND OMMENTS EANING N AMASK ): ): A RAM “Parakala MatamSwamy celebra : yagrIvan, the reciter of Sri HayagrIva Panjaram is blessed Panjaram isblessed HayagrIva yagrIvan, thereciterofSri

6 am, the speech (words and language) will flow am, thespeech(wordsandlanguage)willflow Through the anugraham of the Sarva VidhyA the SarvaVidhyA of the anugraham Through s Saraswathy ( SarOja Aasana dharma s Saraswathy(DeviSarOjaAasanadharma empowered byalavalesam(Trifle)ofLord anugraham. VaaNi is also the name for VaaNiisalsothename anugraham. ting Hayagriva Jayanthi” Daasan in the first slOkam of slOkam Daasan inthefirst stands which the mighty kingofmountains, mean (of dew).Sannibhan means awhitemountain “Thusharaachala Sannibhan”.Thushaaraachalam meansHimaalaya Italso Mountain. namaskAram as butheisalsosalutedinthis SankAsan” SphaDika only “Suddha SankAsam gems aremade. of which crystal out (W pure(blemishless)sphaDika He islikea (M sankAsam sphaDika Suddha siÚÉm! tu;aracl s»azm! S)iqk zuÏ 3 cool them.Thosewhohave thebhAgyamtomedita YoucastYourThirum Oh HayagrIvaPerumAnE! ThvA (M yE kalayanthy kshaNArdham api vaca< àvahEr! AinvairtESte mNdaiknI— mNdiytu< ]mNte. 15. Aip ][ax¡ klyiNt ye Tva< AaPlavyNt< ivzdEr! myUoE>, onhere: tobereflected isalso Sthothram HayagrIva Sri of The 15thslOkam sadhreechibhi: dhyuthibhi:av whit the threeworlds He makes siddham). ofHaya mountain sphaDika blemishless This --2ndSlOkampassage. prathipaDam” bhUbhruth manI “Suddha sphaDika passage SlOkam -Ist “nirmala sphadikAkruthim” sthOth Hayagriva Sri Desikan's hereasaloft Lord HayagrIvanissaluted RD vaachAm pravAhai: anavArithaistE ma anavArithaistE pravAhai: vaachAm EANING EANING N AMASK ): ): A RAM : adhAtha thribhuvanam). Megha Sandesam ram echoes these Salutations: these ram echoes thushaarAchala sannibham . . sannibham thushaarAchala

m AaplAvayantham visadhairmayUkhai: visadhairmayUkhai: AaplAvayantham m ndhAkineem mandhayithum kshamanthE kshamanthE mandhayithum ndhAkineem 7 as the measuring rod for the universe (KaaLi rodfortheuniverse the measuring as ). y, faultless white crystal mountain. Swamy y, faultlesswhitecrystal mountain. Swamy e with His nectar-like effulgence (SudhA effulgence (SudhA nectar-like withHis e hite crystal)gem.SphaDikamisclearrock means resembling. Lord Hayagrivan is not isnot Hayagrivan Lord means resembling. grIvan however is self-manifested (svatha grIvan howeveris Eni's white effulgence on Your adiyArs and Eni's whiteeffulgenceon YouradiyArs te on You of such attributes (like the cool te onYouofsuchattributes (likethecool s one that resembles. He is compared to to He iscompared resembles. that s one

sadagopan.org sadagopan.org the GangApravAhaminspeedofdelivery. floodofdhivyavaak.Theyareable uninterrupted achalam)evenfor HimAlaya mountain/TushAra “Hayagriva Jayanthi–Pa 8 rthiba—Parakala Matam” rthiba—Parakala to have the power of speech, whichexceeds to havethepowerofspeech, half a second areblessedbyYoutohave half asecond ThirumEni with his he visual Swamy Desikanstatesherethat » Chandramivasphurantham SaradhganE ThvAm nava-puNDareekE « niSAmayE SthOthram: HayagrIva Sri slOkam of 26th fromthe in thepassage matching Hishue lotus on afreshlyblossomedwhite Moon Hayagr Lord to reference makes Swamy Desikan autumn Moon(Saradhchandran). madhyagam no is Moon This Moon (Chandran). the orbit of salutedhere.Heisalsovisuali is ThirumEni maNDala parvath (svEtha mountain white He islikea (M sankAsa-chandhra parvatha svEtha s»az cNÔmNflmXygm! pvRt ñet 4 white cloudsoftheautumnseason TH

EANING N “niSAmayE ThvAm nava-puNDareekE SaradhganE Chandramivasphurantham” SaradhganE ThvAm nava-puNDareekE “niSAmayE AMASK ): A RAM : inner eye as the Moon seated ona Moonseated inner eyeasthe (Iyppasi-Kaarthikai months). months). (Iyppasi-Kaarthikai 9 am); Lord HayagrIvan's Suddha Satthvamaya Suddha Satthvamaya Lord HayagrIvan's am); zed here asbeingseatedatthecenterof zed izes Lord HayagrIvan's Suddha sphaDika sphaDika Suddha HayagrIvan's Lord izes ordinary Moon but the unmistakably bright bright theunmistakably ordinary Moonbut Ivan seated at the center of the autumn Ivan seatedatthecenterof new white lotus amidst the radiant the radiant white lotusamidst new

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Sankha-chakra dharam dEvam kireeDa makuDojvalam makuDojvalam head shinesacr OnHis Sudarsanam. kireeDa identified handsare four ofthe adorning two dEvam The lastnamaskAramreferredtofourarms dharam Sankha-chakra zŒ c³ xrm! devm! ikrIq mk…qaeJJvlm! S SaamudhrikA lakshaNams. yathEkshaNam thehandsthatreachalmostdown as aajAnubaahu, PuNdareekA generous limbsandlotuslikesoftbeau atthecentreof Lord HayagrIvanisvisualized udhArAngam Chathurbhujam ctuÉuRjm! %dara¼m! puNfrIkay te][m! 5 TH IXTH N AMASK N AMASK A RAM A RAM : : “Chetipuniyam Yoga Hayagreeva” Yoga “Chetipuniyam own befitting that of SarvEswaran. own befittingthatof

tiful eyes. UdhArAngam can also be understood tiful eyes.UdhArAngamcanalsobeunderstood 10 the orbit of the autumn Moon with four hands, Moonwithfourhands, orbit oftheautumn the as the conch, Paanchajanyam and the disc, disc, Paanchajanyam andthe astheconch, (Chathurbhujam); here the divine weapons herethedivineweapons (Chathurbhujam); to his knees. This is one of the thirty two two thirty ofthe isone This his knees. to KousthubhOdh-bhAsithOraskam vanamAlA virAjitham virAjitham vanamAlA KousthubhOdh-bhAsithOraskam ïIvTsai»t v]sm! devm! pItaMbrxrm! kaEStuÉaeÑaistaerSkm! vnmala ivraijtm! S ayellowsilkgarmen Lord. Hehas also seenonthatchestaswell.The divine mole the garla and gem theKousthubham adorned with His lakshaN HayagrIvan. taken theavathAramof vi Devan, Ubhaya isDeva HayagrIvan Sri EVENTH PeethAmbharadharam dEvam SrIvathsaankitha vakshasam vakshasam SrIvathsaankitha dEvam PeethAmbharadharam &8 “Lakshmi Hayagrivan -Paravakotta Hayagrivan “Lakshmi TH N AMASK A RAMS t (PeethAmbharam) on His waist. onHis t (PeethAmbharam) : bhUthi NaaTan, NaarAyaNan, whohas bhUthi NaaTan,Sriman 11 i Andavan Ashramam ” i Andavan Ashramam Srirangam” of Srivathsam is visible on the chest of the isvisibleonthechestof of Srivathsam ams arerevealed tous here: Hischestis nd of wild flowers (Vyjayanthi Maalai) is Maalai) flowers(Vyjayanthi nd ofwild

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“Thiruvendipuram Hayagrivan” Hayagrivan” “Thiruvendipuram ~Ana mudhrAksha Pusthakam Pusthakam mudhrAksha ~Ana AyEth ishtArTa siddhayE siddhayE ishtArTa AyEth 12 His left lower hand should be meditated upon upon meditated be should left lowerhand His boon, what one desires among the four four the boon, whatonedesiresamong es that Lord HayagrIvan carrying Jn~Ana HayagrIvan carryingJn~Ana Lord es that AaivÉURyad! An" mihma manse vagxIz>. 32. 32. vagxIz>. manse mihma An" AaivÉURyad! AMlan ïIr! Am&t ivzdEr! A Plavyn! ma< ibæd! i_aÚ S)iqk éicre pu{frIke in;{[>, zŒc³e puStk< krsrisjE> muÔa< VyaOya vagwaRn! Aaidmpué;m! hymuom! Xyayaim h

ruchirE puNareekE nishaNNa: nishaNNa: puNareekE ruchirE vam. Swamy Desikan prays to the First Lord of VidhyA to First LordofVidhyA praystothe Swamy Desikan vam. 13 immerse him in that comforting coolness and and coolness thatcomforting in him immerse ram. The two other dhyAna SlOkams for Lord Lord SlOkams for other dhyAna ram. Thetwo - - - 32nd slOkam of Sri HayagrIva SthOthram HayagrIvaSthOthram - 32ndslOkamofSri His effulgence never diminishes. There is no is no never diminishes.There His effulgence also be instructive for roopa dhyAnam and forroopadhyAnam instructive be also a is connected to this passage a BhagavAnisconnectedtothispassage

sadagopan.org sadagopan.org “Bhukthi Mukthi PradhAyaka HayagrIvan” an PradhAyaka HayagrIvan” “Bhukthi Mukthi Paan of The VishNuTilakam head. andhorse's man's trunk HamsaSabdham horse. ForLordHayagrIvan, hasbeen Sabdham Kosam, In theMedhini Hamsa: Hi and theSrikOsamin withonehand Lakshmi of Hisembrace and hands Lord's onthe dhyAna slOkamdescribesthemudhrAs The second DhyA saluted attheendof on th on awhitelotusandinstructingHisson hill Moorthy) beinglikeablemishlessSpaDika VidhyA oftheLord (the HayagrIvan ofthe body The us divine reminds first slOkam VisvAthmA viSada-prabhA prat viSada-prabhA VisvAthmA ihr{yCDd> h ivñaTma ivzd-àÉa àitlst! vaGdevta m{flae akhaNDa-chandr moorthim VidhyA

hrudhyAm sphaDikaadhri nirmal sphaDikaadhri hrudhyAm dEvo dakshiNa-paaNi-yugma vi dakshiNa-paaNi-yugma dEvo vaamOdagrakarE dharam tadh-itarENa-aaslishya dhOshNA RamAm RamAm dhOshNA tadh-itarENa-aaslishya dharam vaamOdagrakarE AamnAya- vyAkhyAntham sadhaa prathi VaamAnga-sTitha-VallabhAm hasthAgrE dhrutha-pusthaka: sa sa dhrutha-pusthaka: hasthAgrE Haya Aadhimapurusham VAgarTAn na SlOkam as HamsAthmakan. na SlOkamasHamsAthmakan. charAthra Saasthramrecogni hilasadh VaakdEvathA maNDalO maNDalO VaakdEvathA hilasadh lasadh BhOdhAnga chakrAyudha: chakrAyudha: BhOdhAnga lasadh a tanum vidhyOtamAnam SriyA SriyA vidhyOtamAnam tanum a avalaya-svEthAravindhAsTitham avalaya-svEthAravindhAsTitham dayathAm HamsO HiraNyacchada: HamsO dayathAm mukham dhyAyAmi HamsAthmakam dhyAyAmi mukham 14 e meanings of e meanings the Veda Manthrams.Heis seated in the middle of Mandalam ofChandra inthemiddle seated denotes MahA avathAran with a a MahAVishNuavathAranwith denotes d goes on to describe the yEkAkshara the yEkAkshara d goesontodescribe s hand. This slOkam also salutes Him as as slOkam alsosalutesHim s hand.This equated to VishNu, Sooryan and a type of Sooryan andatype VishNu, to equated zes this Hamsasabdhan as ----DhyAyana SlOkam2 ----DhyAyana ---- DhyAna SlOkam1

PlavyNtm! jgt! svRm! Sv-dehaeTwaèuta seivtm! äü-z»r-vagezÉarit-Vyas VyOyaNtm! iniolagman! vaca meg-gMÉIrya VyaOyaM½ puStkm! zNom! c³í xtMkrE> smiNvtm! srSvTya cNÔm{fl-mXyStm! S)iqkacl Ahm! hy¢Ivm! siÚÉm! vNde When one attains Mantra Siddhi of this yEkAkshari of Hamsa sabdhan (HayagrIvan), (HayagrIvan), sabdhan ofHamsa of thisyEkAkshari Siddhi Mantra When oneattains Vaac VaaNi Hamsamanou SiddhE Éuiv ivXyte mÙrajen nasaXym! Anen isÏe hMsmnae vai[ vaic n&Tyit svRda andJalatarpaN for thejapam The phalaSruthi vandhE aham HayagrIvam this yEkAkshariof for The dhyAnam HayAnan istheDevathA. HayagrIvan forwhichBrahmA of Manthram ChandramaNDala-madhyastham SarasvathyA samanvitham samanvitham SarasvathyA ChandramaNDala-madhyastham anEna ManthrarAjEna nA ManthrarAjEna anEna vyAkhyAmccha pusthakam Sankham Sankham pusthakam vyAkhyAmccha mEga-gambheerayA vAchA vykhyAntham nikhilAgamAn nikhilAgamAn vykhyAntham vAchA mEga-gambheerayA -Sankara-Vaagheesa plAvayantham jagath sarvam jagath plAvayantham sAdhyam vidhyathE bhuvi bhuvi vidhyathE sAdhyam sphaDikAchala sannibham sannibham sphaDikAchala bharathy-VyAsa sEvitham sEvitham bharathy-VyAsa PaancharAthram (VishNuTilakam)is: hi nruthyathi sarvadhA, sarvadhA, nruthyathi hi sva-dEhOtTaamruthAmsubhi: sva-dEhOtTaamruthAmsubhi: chakrasccha dhatham karai: karai: dhatham chakrasccha 15 am with this manthram is Rishi, chandas is Devi Gayathri and

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an is PraNava Roopi; PraNavam an isPraNavaRoopi; is theaaNi PraNavam njUshika (Panjaram, Cage, abode), then the njUshika (Panjaram,Cage, abode),thenthe under Swamy Desikan's Sri HayagrIva SriHayagrIva SwamyDesikan's under sampath, SankalpachinthAmaNi”).Asthe rsion of PraNavam as in the Saama Vedam Saama asinthe PraNavam rsion of a prathishtaiasperthe 12thslOkamof

sadagopan.org sadagopan.org salutation for the Lord, who grants what grants salutation fortheLord,who isaprayerful Manthram and HayagrIva fragments ofSri two contains The tenthverse nidhana is istheSun, PrathihAra “TheheemkAraisEarth,thePras Lord : is the onthefive to meditate asksus ChAndhOgyam forms thelasttwo (5) Nidhana upadhravaSaaman sings thefragment, (4) UdhghAtApriestalso whojoins (3) PrathiharthApriest, PraNavam. by initiated is priest. This chiefprie the sung by Saaman (2) UdhgeeTa priest PrastOtA sungby fragment theintroductory (1) PrastAva, These fivedivisionsare: unison byallofthepriests: in is recited of takesupthesinging and theassignedpriest GhAnam hasfivedi Saama Vaak). Sarasvatheemdisathy” ksharantheem KaamadhEnum LordHa PraNavOpAsanai, UdhgItha Through visions. Aparticularverse(Saaman constituents of PraNavam constituents ofPraNavam the above twoinSaamaghAnam. the the heaven; so in an ascending line”. the heaven;soinanascending onedesires(VaanchithArTaPradhAyakan). 18 fold Saamans as the five worlds, whose Master whose five worlds, the Saamansas fold st of Saama ghAnam. st of individual parts. Among these fragments, one yagrIvan grants His UpAsakAs “amrutham “amrutham grantsHisUpAsakAs yagrIvan thAva is Fire; the UdhgithA is the Sky; the the the Sky; is theUdhgithA Fire; is thAva (the boon of flowing nectar of dhivya dhivya of flowing nectar of (theboon ) is broken in to several parts in toseveral broken ) is He is theUdhghATA He

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20 yers are for Praj~nA (consciousness, intuitive intuitive (consciousness, are forPraj~nA yers intellect. One should recall MedhA Sooktham Oneshouldrecall MedhA Sooktham intellect. of my poverty! Make me the receptacle of all Makemethereceptacleofall of mypoverty! . al.)have anddeep Vedicconnotations ion against snake-bite ion against death by the bite of king serpents like like of kingserpents death bythebite inducedpoisonsare sthree-vaSyam jana-vaSyam cha rAja vaSayam ParAthparam ParAthparam vaSayam rAja cha jana-vaSyam sthree-vaSyam pdaMbuj seVyman deva¼na-b&Nd k…é ôIvZym! crajvZym! jnvZym! praTprm! 16 Rg-Yajus-Saama roopAya rithAya mahathE nama: wordwithenor Vedic Praj~nA isanotherprofound nama: three (Rg,Yajusand SaamaVedams).He mahathE Here, anotherrithAya passage fromroopAya Lord HayagrIva manthram is housed.Rg-Yajus-Saama He is of the form of the \]es ibNÊmXySw rajIvasn Éaijne \g!-yjus!-sam êpay \tay mhte nm> 18 You! salutations to whatonedesires!My whogrants Being!OhLord, Oh Supreme mahOpa after heregainedwithYour Manthrams vaasinE Your so toinstruct Swan (Hamsam) form of whotookthe insidetheorbitofMoon!OhLord, theHaya Oh Lordwith Siras residing chandra-maNDala ParamESAya HamsAya nmae hyaeÄma¼ayvaiÁctawR àdaiyne vaisne cNÔ-m{fl prmezay h

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sEvyamAna padhAmbhuja padhAmbhuja sEvyamAna 21 n Brahma Devan about the meanings of Veda meanings ofVeda n BrahmaDevanaboutthe kAram, the four VedAs stolen by the ! kAram, thefourVedAsstolenbyasurAs! is the abode of MahA Rtham; Rtham like ofMahA Rtham; Rthamlike istheabode mous significance. It refers at one level the Itrefersatonelevelthe significance. mous

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upreme Being(ParaBrahmam),whorestoredthe the center of the Yanthrams(Manthramayam the center ofthe 22 rm of “Sathyam Jn~anam anantham BrahmA”. rm of“SathyamJn~anamananthamBrahmA”. e knower of Veda-VedAnthams (Upanishads). (Upanishads). Veda-VedAnthams e knowerof amangaLams). He is the SathyakAma, Sathya He istheSathyakAma,Sathya amangaLams). ed by confusion between Satthvam (reality, (reality, ed byconfusionbetweenSatthvam aled by Bhagavath Saasthrams). Salutations aled byBhagavathSaasthrams). e delusioncausedbyavivEkamaboutthe is housed in the first line of the above the above lineof inthefirst is housed prajn~Ana dhAyinE nithyam bhajathAm bhAvithAthmanAm bhAvithAthmanAm bhajathAm nithyam dhAyinE prajn~Ana à[vaeÌIw vpu;e à[itm! àitpadye à}an daiyne inTym! Éjtam! ÉaivtaTmnam! 20 to eulogize Him ! Salutations to the Lord with Lord with the to Him !Salutations to eulogize Lord,whoconfers tothe VedAs! Salutations ofthestolen theleelaiofrestoration theMadhuandKaiDabhanduring which crushed magnif with Lord the to fragrance !Salutations Ja MandhAra, to theLordadorning Salutations sphaDika MandhAra-kundha nm> Añ izrse mha devay mnI;a-àd mNdar-k…Nd S)iqk mhnIyaeé vcRse manthramhere: HayagrIva of Sri Sri HayagrivaPanjaramisabou 21 (asAchyuthan,Sa fail protects without Heis paadham ofthisverse. the second Here isincorporationofanotherpassagefrom bhUthabruth-bhAvO bhUthakruth to mindhere: Sahasra Naamamcomes Sri VishNu passages of Himal whoworship Aanandhamaya). Forthose, uswi whoblesses Lord, to the Salutations

PraNavOdhgeetha vapushE praNathim prathipAdhayE prathipAdhayE praNathim vapushE PraNavOdhgeetha poothAthmA ParamAthma cha cha ParamAthma poothAthmA maneeshA-pradha dEvAya Mahaa aSva sSirasE nama: sSirasE aSva Mahaa dEvAya maneeshA-pradha ST TH N N AMASKARA AMASKARA N N AM AM :

t to conclude and now the vakthrA places the final fragment placesthefinalfragment thevakthrA t toconcludeandnow mahaneeyOru varchasE varchasE mahaneeyOru “MahA aSva SiraSe nama:” nama:” SiraSe aSva “MahA mukthAnAm paramaa gathi: gathi: paramaa mukthAnAm bhUthAthma bhUtha-bhAvana: bhUtha-bhAvana: bhUthAthma thyan) those seek His rakshaNam. thyan) thoseseekHisrakshaNam. the embodiment of PraNavOdhgeetham and and embodiment ofPraNavOdhgeetham the 23 the greatheadofaHorse (MahAaSavasiras)! Sri HayagrIva Manthram at the beginning of HayagrIvaManthramatthebeginning Sri the boon of intelligence and comprehension andcomprehension boonofintelligence the icent sphaDika hue with the powerful thighs, powerfulthighs, sphaDikahuewiththe icent th Prajn~A (pure consciousness, which is Prajn~A (pureconsciousness,which th smine and other white flowers of exceptional otherwhiteflowersofexceptional smine and ways, He is the Saviour. The following Thefollowing ways, HeistheSaviour.

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