འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 168

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Listen to me with undistracted minds.
I will recite these verses
Based upon relative truth,
In order to praise the supreme goddess Sarasvatī.

“I pay homage to the goddess with great power,
Who has attained power over this world realm.
I am going to praise you because
This has been taught by the ṛṣis of the past.

“Your glorious mind possesses bliss and learning
And it is renowned for its beauty.
You are also the mother who gave birth to this world
And continuously acts with great diligence in glory.

“You are always victorious on the battleground.
Through subjugation you give rise to compassion and patience,
You manifest the body of Yama’s sister,
And you always wear clothes of blue silk.

“You manifest both beauty and ugliness.
Whoever sees your eyes will have trust in you.
Your immeasurable activity transcends the world.
Whoever comes to you for refuge, you take care of them.

“Sometimes you dwell on mountains and rocks,
Sometimes in caves or on riverbanks,
Or also within forests of trees—
Those places are the dwellings of the goddess.

“If you continually make offerings to the goddess,
Just as the humans in the borderlands do,
Who make parasols from peacock feathers,
Then she will protect the world at all times.

“She is encircled by tigers and lions;
Birds and cattle also depend on her.
When the sound of her great bell resounds
It is heard even on the Vindhya mountains.

“In her hands she holds a trident,
Or she holds the sun and moon as her standard.
On the eleventh day of the waning moon,
Or on the ninth, make offerings to her.

“Because she looks upon the entire world,
When a battle is being waged, through her kindness,
She manifests as the goddess Vasu.
She is a supreme goddess beyond analogy.

“She manifests the form of the gopi Rādhā,³⁵⁶
And even fighting devas, she is always victorious.
She dwells happily for a long time in the world,
Sometimes wrathful, and sometimes peaceful.

“She is skilled in the four Dharmas³⁵⁷ that are taught
By the brahmins, and in all miracles and mantras.
She has attained the power of the ṛṣis and devas
And creates this great earth and its seeds.