Devishataka 103_74

103_74

By him whose speech was charming in the Ānandakathā and in the Tridaśānanda,
by him this very difficult hymn to the Devī has been composed with devotion. (104)

The meaning of this too is: By that poet, the son of Noṇa, Ānandavardhana, this hymn, of the kind described, a new creation, has been composed, woven, made with devotion, with service, directed toward the Goddess. What kind of hymn? Very difficult—wherein are fine, difficult verse-arrangements like the cakra-bandha, or extremely difficult, impossible for anyone else to make.
By which poet? He says: By him by whom speech—the goddess of eloquence—was cherished and delighted in the Ānandakathā, that is, the Viṣamabāṇalīlā, and in the Tridaśānanda, that is, the Arjunacarita. The sentence means: this hymn is the work of the poet who composed the Viṣamabāṇalīlā and the Arjunacarita.

[The Īśvaraśataka]
Having obtained birth from Candrāditya and Vallabhādevī,
he named Kayyaṭa composed a commentary on the Devīśataka stotra.
Whatever merit has been obtained by me by thus declaring the true nature of Vāgīśvarī,
by that may the world attain supreme awakening in every birth.
When the period of the Vasus, the sages, the sky, and the oceans (4078) of the Kali age had passed in the world,
in the fifty-second year, while King Bhīmagupta was reigning, this was composed.
May Vāgīśvarī protect you—she who has arisen from the sphere of karma, dwelling within the circles of the moon, the sun, and fire,
whose radiant splendor ceases only with the light of the rays of the doomsday sun, for the awakening of the knower of the field,
who has the constant humming of gentle bees, who is the abode of [the sounds of] the ka, ca, ṭa, ta, pa classes, coursing through the middle channel,
subtle in form from infancy, the mother of the three worlds.
This was composed by Kayyaṭa, the disciple and match of the teacher named Nārāyaṇagarta,
who was single-minded, whose form was like Acyuta, and who knew endless scriptures.

Thus concludes the Devīśataka composed by the venerable teacher Ānandavardhana, son of Noṇa, together with the commentary composed by Kayyaṭa.