Laghustutih (vrittisameta) 121

121

vāma iti . he amba ! jaganmātaḥ! ye tvāṃ manasā na śīlayanti na dhyāyanti . vācā
tvanmantraṃ na japanti ca . teṣāṃ kutaḥ kavitvaṃ krāntadarśitvaṃ sārvajñyaṃ na
kutaścit . ye tu punaḥ śīlayanti teṣāṃ kavitvābhāvo vā kutaḥ . kīdṛśīṃ tvāṃ
caturṣu kareṣu vāme ūrdhvādhaḥkrameṇa pustakadhāriṇīm abhayadām
abhayamudrādhāriṇīṃ ca . dakṣiṇe sākṣasrajaṃ bhaktebhyo varadānapeśalakarāṃ
sphāṭikākṣamālādhāriṇīṃ varadamudrādhāriṇīṃ ca . karpūrakundojjvalāṃ
karpūravat kundavaccojjvalāṃ śobhamānām .
ujjṛmbhāmbujapatrakāntinayanasnigdhaprabhālokinīm ujjṛmbhā
ujjṛmbhaṇaṃ

"On the left" and so forth. O Mother! O Mother of the universe! Those who do not cherish you with the mind, [that is,] do not meditate on you, and do not recite your mantra with speech—whence would poetic power, [that is,] visionary insight and omniscience, come to them? From nowhere. But for those who do cherish you, whence could there be an absence of poetic power? What kind of you? In four hands: on the left, from above to below in order, holding a book and granting fearlessness, [that is,] holding the gesture of fearlessness; on the right, with a rosary, her hands gracious in granting boons to devotees, [that is,] holding a rosary of crystals and holding the boon-granting gesture; radiant as camphor and jasmine, [that is,] shining brilliantly like camphor and like jasmine; gazing with a soft radiance from eyes having the splendor of blossoming lotus petals: "blossoming" means blooming,