Description
The devi mahatamyam , also known as the Durga saptshati , is revered text in Hinduism that glorifies the divine feminine power of goddesss Durga this scripture , the keelka stotram holds a very special place Comprising 22 powerful verses , it seeks invoker the blessing and the proptection of goddess Durga by addressing her various forms and attributes.
The keelka stotram emphasizes the significance of devotion and surrender to the divine mother . recognizing her as the ultimate source of strength and salvation .It serves as a spiritual guide , urging devotees to offer their prayer with atmost sincerity amd humility reciting this stotram believed to grant inner strengthand bring divine grace into one's life.
The Devi Mahatmyam describes a storied battle between good and evil, where the Devi manifesting as goddess Durga leads the forces of good against the demon Mahishasura—the goddess is very angry and ruthless, and the forces of good win. In peaceful prosperous times, states the text, the Devi manifests as Lakshmi, empowering creation and happiness. The verses of this story also outline a philosophical foundation wherein the ultimate reality (Brahman in Hinduism) is female. The text is one of the earliest extant complete manuscripts from the Hindu traditions which describes reverence and worship of the feminine aspect of God. The Devi Mahatmyam is often ranked in some Hindu traditions to be as important as the Bhagavad Gita.
The Devi Mahatmyam has been particularly popular in eastern states of India, such as West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Assam, Goa as well as Nepal. It is recited during Navratri celebrations, the Durga Puja festival, and in Durga temples across India.
Tulunadu, located in Coastal Karnataka draws inspiration from the Devi Mahatmyam for several plays in the form of Yakshagana that are conducted throughout the year at most of Shakti temples to depict the glorious powers of Devi to people of all generations since many centuries. The booking for Yakshagana troupes, not months but years in advance proves the devotion and importance of Devi Mahatme storyline.
History
The Devi Mahatmyam, states C. Mackenzie Brown, is both a culmination of centuries of Indian ideas about the divine feminine, as well as a foundation for the literature and spirituality focused on the feminine transcendence in centuries that followed.
One of the earliest evidence of reverence for the feminine aspect of God appears in chapter 10.125 of the Rig Veda, also called Devīsūkta.
Hymns to goddesses are in the ancient Hindu epic Mahabharata, particularly in the later added Harivamsa section of it. The archaeological and textual evidence implies, states Thomas Coburn, that the Goddess had become as much a part of the Hindu tradition, as God, by about the third or fourth century.
Date
Devi Mahatmyam is a text extracted from Markandeya Purana, and constitutes the latter's chapters 81 through 93. The Purana is dated to the ~3rd century CE, and the Devi Mahatmyam was added to the Markandeya Purana either in the 5th or 6th century.
The Dadhimati Mata inscription quotes a portion from the Devi Mahatmyam. Thus, it can be concluded that the text was composed before the 7th century CE. It is generally dated between 400-600 CE. Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty dates the Devi Mahatmya and rest of the Markandeya Purana.
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Philosophy
The Devi Mahatmya text is a devotional text, and its aim, states Thomas Coburn, is not to analyze divine forms or abstract ideas, but to praise. This it accomplishes with a philosophical foundation, wherein the female is the primordial creator; she is also the Tridevi as the secondary creator, the sustainer, and destroyer. She is presented, through a language of praise, as the one who dwells in all creatures, as the soul, as the power to know, the power to will and the power to act. She is consciousness of all living beings, she is intelligence, she is matter, and she is all that is form or emotion.
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The text includes hymns to saguna form of the Goddess, as well as nirguna form of her. The saguna hymns appear in chapters 1, 4 and 11 of the Devi Mahatmya, while chapter 5 praises the nirguna concept of Goddess. The saguna forms of her, asserts the text, are Mahakali (destroyer, Tamasic, Desire principle of mother), Mahalakshmi (sustainer, evolution principle of mother ,Sattvic) and Mahasaraswati (creator, Action principle of mother , Rajasvic ), which as a collective are called Tridevi. The nirguna concept (Avyakrita, transcendent) is also referred to as Maha-lakshmi. This structure is not accidental, but embeds the Samkhya philosophy idea of three Gunas that is central in Hindu scriptures such as the Bhagavad Gita.
The Samkhya philosophical premise asserts that all life and matter has all three co-existent innate tendencies or attributes, whose equilibrium or disequilibrium drives the nature of a living being or thing. Tamasic is darkness and destructiveness (represented as Kali in Devi Mahatmya), Sattvic is light and creative pursuit (Mahalakshmi), and Rajasic is dynamic energy qua energy without any intent of being creative or destructive (Mahasaraswati). The unmanifest, in this philosophy, has all these three innate attributes and qualities, as potent principle within, as unrealized power, and this unrealized Goddess dwells in every individual, according to Devi Mahatmya. This acknowledgment of Samkhya dualistic foundation is then integrated into a monistic (non-dualistic, Advaita) spirituality in Devi Mahatmya, just like the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, the Bhagavata Purana and other important texts of Hinduism.
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Contents
The Devī Māhātmya consists of chapters 81-93 of the Mārkandeya Purana, one of the early Sanskrit Puranas, which is a set of stories being related by the sage Markandeya to Jaimini and his students (who are in the form of birds). The thirteen chapters of Devi Māhātmya are divided into three charitas or episodes. At the beginning of each episode a different presiding goddess is invoked, none of whom is mentioned in the text itself.
The framing narrative of Devi Mahatmya presents a dispossessed king, a merchant betrayed by his family, and a sage whose teachings lead them both beyond existential suffering. The sage instructs by recounting three different epic battles between the Devi and various demonic adversaries (the three tales being governed by the three Tridevi, respectively, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, and Mahasaraswati. Most famous is the story of Mahishasura Mardini – Devi as "Slayer of the Buffalo Demon" – one of the most ubiquitous images in Hindu art and sculpture, and a tale known almost universally in India. Among the important goddess forms the Devi Mahatmyam introduced into the Sanskritic mainstream are Kali and the Sapta-Matrika ("Seven Mothers").
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Angas
As an independent text, Devī Māhātmya has acquired a number of "limbs" or "subsidiary texts" or "appendages" (angas) over the years "fore and aft". According to Coburn "artistic evidence suggests that the angas have been associated with the text since the fourteenth century." The angas are chiefly concerned with the ritual use of Devī Māhātmya and based on the assumption that the text will be recited aloud in the presence of images.
There are two different traditions in the Anga parayana. One is the trayanga parayana (Kavacha, Argala, Keelaka). The other is the Navanga parayana (Nyasam, Avahanam, Namani, Argalam, Keelakam, Hrudayam, Dhalam, Dhyanam, Kavacham). The navanga format is followed in kerala and some other parts in South India.
Preceding subsidiary text
- Durga Saptasloki also known as "Amba Stuti" - They are introduced as one-verse query from Siva who asks about the means of achieving what is desired, and a one verse response from the Goddess who says she will proclaim the relevant discipline (sadhana) by revealing Amba Stuti which consists of the seven verses indicated.
- Devi-kavacham - The Devi Kavacham consisting of 61 Slokas is in Markandeya Purana. This Kavacham (armor) protects the reader in all parts of his body, in all places and in all difficulties.
- Argala-stotram - Here Rishi Markandeya is telling his disciples in 27 inspiring couplets on the greatness of Devi. She has been described in all aspects and names and at the end of each Sloka, prayer is offered to Devi for material prosperity, physical fitness, fame and victory.
- Keelakam - Here also Rishi Markandeya tells his disciples in 16 Slokas, the ways and means of removing obstacles faced by devotees, while reading Devi Mahatmya.
- Ratri Suktam (Vedic) - Ratri Suktam (8 Slokas) has been taken from Rig Veda, 10th Mandala, 10th Anuvaka, 127th Sukta, which shows that Devi was worshipped from time immemorial. Devi is described as the all-pervading Supreme Lord of the Universe appearing in Omkara. Here Ratri is the Goddess who fulfills our prayers.
- Kunjika Stotram is also a beautiful hymn written in the saptashati which is said to be the mixture of the three hymns i.e., Kavacham, Argala stotram, Keelakam and also Rahasya parvam (Murthy Rahasyam and Vaikrutika Rahasyam).It is said that Lord Shiva had recited this shloka to Parvathi at her attainment of BramhaGyaan. This shloka plays an important role in Devi Saptashati. It is at the ending of the book.
- Ratri Suktam (Tantrik) - The hymn in the first chapter is the Tantrik Ratri Sukta.
- Guptavati by Bhaskararaya
- Nagesi by Nagoji Bhat
- Santhanavi
- Puspanjali
- Ramashrami
- Dhamsoddharam
- Durgapradeepam are some of them.
Either the Ratri Suktam (Vedic) or Ratri Suktam (Tantrik) is read depending upon whether the ritual is Vedic or Tantrik.
One of the texts recited by some traditions is the Devī-Atharva-Śirṣa-Upaniṣad (Devi Upaniṣad).
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Place in the Hindu canon
Devi Māhātmyam has been called the Testament of Shakta philosophy. It is the base and root of Shakta doctrine. It appears as the centre of the great Shakti tradition of Hinduism.
It is in Devi Mahatmya, states C Mackenzie Brown, that "the various mythic, cultic and theological elements relating to diverse female divinities were brought together in what has been called the 'crystallization of the Goddess tradition."
The unique feature of Devi Māhātmyam is the oral tradition. Though it is part of the devotional tradition, it is in the rites of the Hindus that it plays an important role. The entire text is considered as one single Mantra and a collection of 700 Mantras.
The Devi Māhātmyam is treated in the cultic context as if it were a Vedic hymn or verse with sage , meter, pradhnadevata, and viniyoga. It has been approached, by Hindus and Western scholars, as scripture in and by itself, where its significance is intrinsic, not derived from its Puranic context.
According to Damara Tantra "Like Aswamedha in Yagnas, Hari in Devas, Sapthsati is in hymns." "Like the Vedas; Saptasati is eternal" says Bhuvaneshwari Samhita.
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The significance of Devi Māhātmya has been explained in many Tantric and Puranic texts like Katyayani Tantra, Gataka Tantra, Krodha Tantra, Meru Tantram, Marisa Kalpam, Rudra Yamala, and Chidambara Rahasya. A number of studies of Shaktism appreciate the seminal role of Devi Māhātmya in the development of the Shakta tradition.
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Devi mahatamyam keelkam lyrics in english meaning:
asya sri kilaka stotra maha mantrasya | siva rsih | anustup chandah | mahasarasvati devata | mantrodita devyo bijam | navarno mantrasakti|sri sapta sati mantra statvam sri jagadamba prityarthe saptasati pathangatvaena jape viniyogah |
om namascandikayai
markandeya uvaca
om visuddha nnanadehaya trivedi divyacaksuse |
sreyah prapti nimittaya namah somartha dharine ||1||
sarvameta dvijaniyanmantranapi kilakam |
soஉpi ksemamavapnoti satatam japya tatparah ||2||
siddhyantuccatanadini karmani sakalanyapi |
etena stuvatam devim stotravrndena bhaktitah ||3||
na mantro nausadham tasya na kinci dapi vidhyate |
vina japyam na siddhyettu sarva muccatanadikam ||4||
samagranyapi setsyanti lokasannka mimam harah |
krtva nimantrayamasa sarva meva midam subham ||5||
stotramvai candikayastu tacca guhyam cakara sah |
samapnoti sapunyena tam yathavannimantranam ||6||
sopiஉksema mavapnoti sarva meva na samsayah |
krsnayam va caturdasyam astamyam va samahitah ||7||
dadati pratigrhnati nanya thaisa prasidati |
ittham rūpena kilena mahadevena kilitam| ||8||
yo niskilam vidhayainam candim japati nitya sah |
sa siddhah sa ganah soஉtha gandharvo jayate dhruvam ||9||
na caiva patavam tasya bhayam kvapi na jayate |
napa mrtyu vasam yati mrteca moksamapnuyat ||10||
nnatvaprarabhya kurvita hyakurvano vinasyati |
tato nnatvaiva sampūrnam idam prarabhyate budhaih ||11||
saubhagyadica yatkincid drsyate lalanajane |
tatsarvam tatprasadena tena japyamidam subham ||12||
sanaistu japyamaneஉsmin stotre sampattiruccakaih|
bhavatyeva samagrapi tatah prarabhyamevatat ||13||
aisvaryam tatprasadena saubhagyarogyamevacah |
satruhanih paro moksah stūyate sana kim janai ||14||
candikam hrdayenapi yah smaret satatam narah |
hrdyam kamamavapnoti hrdi devi sada vaset ||15||
agratoஉmum mahadeva krtam kilakavaranam |
niskilanca tatha krtva pathitavyam samahitaih ||16||
|| iti sri bhagavati kilaka stotram samaptam ||
Rishi Markandeya tells his disciples in 16 Slokas the ways to remove the obstacles faced by devotees while reading Devi Mahatmya. Reading of Keelakam brings blessings of the Devi, spiritual harmony, peace of mind and success.
Of this Keelakam Stotram, Lord Shiva is the Rishi, Anushtup (eight syllables in a pada) is the meter, Mahasarasvati is the deity and it is recited for the love of Shri Jagadamba as a part of Durga Saptashati.
Salutations to Shri Chandika!
The sage said:
Om, I bow with respect to the greatest Lord, who has three eyes and who wears the crescent. Whose knowledge encompasses the wisdom of the Vedas and whose pure devotion lead to the ultimate bliss.
Anyone who understands the Key (Keelakam means the nail which holds the cart and the wheel together, in this context is the key that unlocks the secrets of the Devi Mahatmya) to the mantras of the Devi Mahatmya and recites them with constant intent attains complete success and full peace.
Those who praise the Devi by reciting or singing these mantras, shall certainly succeed in thwarting every single adversity (whether external or internal, and whether physical, mental, or spiritual) and in achieving the highest realizations.
Those who praise the Devi by reciting or singing these mantras need no other mantras or medicine, or anything else and will realize all their needs.
Those who praise the Devi by reciting or singing these mantras find the greatest relief from every doubt in the world and are filled with perfect bliss.
There is no end to the blessings that can be received by the Devi Mahatmya. The secret is that it must be offered to the Devi with the utmost devotional focus so that She will be pleased and will accept it.
Without any doubt, who recites those mantras with full concentration, and especially on the fourteenth or eighth day after the new moon (Krishna Chathurdasi or Krishna Ashtami), attains bliss.
The one Key of the Great God (Shiva) is that devotion alone brings Her grace. As one gives, so in
return does one receive, and by no other means is She pleased.
Whoever constantly recites the Devi Mahatmya using the Key, surely becomes perfect, a divine attendant, even a celestial singer.
Wherever such a person goes, he is free from all danger and fear. Such a person is not subject to untimely death, and when the death of his body does come, then he is surely saved, attaining full liberation.
Now, knowing all this, one must begin and continue to practice it. By not doing so, even the gift of understanding will perish. The wise ones devote themselves to what brings complete fulfillment.
All felicities, beatitudes, and other auspicious qualities formed in femininity come about through the grace of the Goddess. Therefore, one should recite with devotion the Devi Mahatmyam.
Even when that scripture is recited softly, its success is resounding. For complete fulfillment, one must proceed.
When the blessing of the Supreme Sovereign, through Her grace, is welfare, health, fulfillment, the destruction of all enmity, and supreme liberation, why should anyone not praise Her so?
Here ends the Keelakam Stotram of the Devi.
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