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Translation of Krishnashtaka (Kṛṣṇāṣṭaka)
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- 11 passages, 479 words
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- complete digital text
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- pramana-mt · Machine translation by Gemini 3.8 Flash (2026-10-06) of in.sampradaya.vaisnava.stotra.krsnastaka · Machine output without human authorship: no copyright is claimed (CC0 1.0). The original text keeps its own…
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|| Śrīḥ
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|| Kṛṣṇāṣṭakam
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Embraced by Śrī, Viṣṇu, teacher of the unmoving and moving, the scope of the Vedas, / witness of thoughts, pure, Hari, slayer of asuras, lotus-eyed, / bearer of the mace, the conch, and the discus, wearing an immaculate forest garland, of steadfast radiance, / the refuge, the Lord of the world—may Kṛṣṇa come within the range of my sight. || 1
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From whom this whole world arose, beginning with space and wind; / who in its maintenance protects everything entirely through a portion of his own bliss, the slayer of Madhu; / and who, in dissolution, gathers everything into himself by a mere fraction, that all-pervading Lord, / the refuge, the Lord of the world—may Kṛṣṇa come within the range of my sight. || 2
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Restraining the breaths first with the excellent means beginning with yama and niyama, / checking this mind and bringing all [modifications] to dissolution in the heart, / whom, praise-worthy, the lord of māyā, those of supreme intellect perceive—may he, / the refuge, the Lord of the world, Kṛṣṇa come within the range of my sight.
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"Standing in the earth, who controls the earth, whom the earth does not know"— / thus and so forth the Veda speaks of the spotless Lord of the worlds, / the controller, the object of meditation, who bestows liberation upon sages, gods, and men—may he, / the refuge, the Lord of the world, Kṛṣṇa come within the range of my sight.
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By whose power the god Indra and others conquer the sons of Diti, / without whose agency no one whatsoever has independence in any action, / who humbles the pride of victorious Indra, the enemy of Bala—may he, / the refuge, the Lord of the world, Kṛṣṇa come within the range of my sight.
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Without whose meditation people pass into bestial states such as that of a pig, / without whose knowledge mankind falls into the fear of birth and death, / without remembrance of whom one goes to birth as hundreds of worms—that all-pervading Lord, / the refuge, the Lord of the world—may Kṛṣṇa come within the range of my sight. || 6
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The chisel [cutting away] the distress of men, the refuge of the surrendered, the dispeller of delusion, / dark as a raincloud, beautiful, playmate of the boys of Vraja, friend of Arjuna, / self-born, father of living beings, bestower of happiness through proper conduct, / the refuge, the Lord of the world—may Kṛṣṇa come within the range of my sight. || 7
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Whenever there is a decline of dharma causing distress to the worlds, / then the Master of the world manifests his form, the unborn upholder of bounds, / sustainer of the virtuous, pure, sung by the hosts of the Vedas, the Lord of Vraja— / the refuge, the Lord of the world—may Kṛṣṇa come within the range of my sight. || 8
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Thus the Kṛṣṇāṣṭakam composed by the venerable Śaṅkarabhagavat, paramahaṃsa and wandering ascetic teacher, disciple of the revered feet of holy Govinda, is complete.