ਸ਼੍ਰੀ ਦਸਮ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ

What is the Nature of the Soul? What is the concept of the world?

What is the object of Dharma? Tell me all in detail.2.202.

DOHRA (COUPLET)

What are birth and death? What are heaven and hell?

What are wisdom and foolishness? What are logical and illogical? 3.203.

DOHRA (COUPLET)

What are slander and praise? What are sin and rectitude?

What are enjoyment and ecstasy? What are virtue and vice? 4.204.

DOHRA (COUPLET)

What is called effort? And what shuld endurance be called?

Who is hero? And who is Donor? Tell me what are Tantra and Mantra? 5.205.

DOHRA (COUPLET)

Who are the pauper and the king? What are joy and sorrow?

Who is ailing and who is attached? Tell me their substance. 6.206.

DOHRA (COUPLET)

Who are hale and hearty? What is the object of the creation of the world?

Who is superb? And who is defiled? Tell me all in detail.7.207.

DOHRA (COUPLET)

How an action is recompensed? How and illusion is destroyed?

What are the cravings of the mind? And what is the carefree illumination? 8.208.

DOHRA (COUPLET)

What are the observance and restraint? What are the knowledge and nescience

Who is ailing and who is sorrowful, and where does the downfall of Dharma occur? 9.209.

DOHRA (COUPLET)

Who is hero and who is beautiful? What is the essence of Yoga?

Who is the Donor and who is the Knower? Tell me the judicious and injudicious.10.210.

By Thy Grace. Diragh Tribhangi Stanza.

Thy Nature from the very beginning is to punish the multitudes of vicious people, to destroy the demons and to uproot the tyrants.

Thou hast profound discipline of killing the demon named Chachhyar, of liberating the sinners and saving them from hell.

Thy intellect is incomprehensible, Thou art Immortal, Indivisible, Supremely Glorious and Unpunishable Entity.

Hail, hail, the Canopy of the world, the slayer of Mahishasura, wearing the knot of elegant long hair on Thy head. 1.211.

O Supremely beautiful goddess! The slayer of demons, destroyer of tyrants and chastiser of the mighty.

Punisher of the demon Chand, Slayer of the demon Mund, the killer of Dhumar Lochan and trampler of Mahishasura.

Destroyer of demons, Saviour from hell, and liberator of the sinners of upper and nether regions.

Hail, hail, O Slayer of Mahishasura, the Primal Power with elegant knot of long hair on thy head. 2.212.

Thy tabor is played in the battlefield and Thy lion roars and with Thy strength and glory, Thy arms quiver.

Furnished with armour, Thy soldiers take strides over the field, Thou art the slayer of armies and the death of the demons.

The eight weapons glisten in Thy hands like ornaments; Thou art gleaming like lighting and hissing like snakes.

Hail, hail, O slayer of Mahishasura, O Conqueror of demons with elegant knot of long hair on Thy head.3.213.

Punisher of the demon Chand, Slayer of the deomon Mund and, Breaker into pieces of the Unbreakable in the battlefield.

O Goddess! Thou flashest like lightning, Thy flags oscillate, Thy serpents hiss, O Conqueror of the warriors.

Thou causest the rain of the arrows and makest the tyrants trampled in the battlefield; Thou givest great delight to the Yoginin 'pusit', who drank the blood of Raktavija demon and destroyest the scoundrels.

Hail, hail, O slayer of Mahishasura, pervading the earth, sky and nether-worlds, both above and below.4.214.

Thou laughest like the flash of lightining, Thou abidest in winsome elegance, Thou givest birth to the world.

O Deity of profound principles, O Pious-natured Goddess, Thou art the devourer of the demon Raktavija, enhancer of the zeal for warfare and fearless dancer.

Thou art the drinker of blood, emitter of fire (from the mouth), the conqueror of Yoga and wielder of the Sword.

Hail, hail, O Slayer of Mahishasura, the destroyer of sin and originator of Dharma. 5.215.

Thou art the effacer of all the sins, the burner of the tyrants, Protector of the world and possessor of the world and possessor of pure intellect.

The snakes hiss (on Thy neck), Thy vehicle, the lion roars, Thou operatest arms, but are of saintly disposition.

Thou earnest arms like 'saihathi' in Thy eight long arms, Thou art True to Thy words and Thy Glory is Immeasurable

Hail, hail, O Slayer of Mahishasura! Pervading in earth, sky, nether-world and water.6.216.

Thou art the brandisher of the sword, vanquisher of the demon Chichhur. Carder of Dhumar Lochan like cotton and masher of ego.

Thy teeth are like grains of pomegranate, Thou art the conqueror of the Yoga, masher of men and Deity of profound principles.

O the Goddess of eight long arms! Thou art the destroyer of sinful actions with moonlike light and sunlike Glory.

Hail, hail O Slayer of Mahishasura! Thou art the destroyer of illusion and the banner of Dharma (righteousness).7.217.

O Goddess of the banner of Dharma! The bells of Thy anklets clink, Thy arms gleam and Thy serpents hiss.

O Deity of loud laughter! Thou abidest in the world, destroyest the tryants and movest in all directions.

Thou hast the lion as Thy vehicle and art clad in pure armour, Thou art Unapproachable and Unfathomable and the Power of One Transcendent Lord.

Hail, hail, O Slayer of Mahishasura! The Primal Virgin of Inscrutable reflection.8.218.

All the gods, men and sages bow before Thee, O the masher of tyrants! Destroyer of the vicious and even the ruinous of Death.

O Virgin Deity of Kamrup! Thou art the liberator of the lowly, Protector from death and called the Primal Entity.

Thou hast a very beautiful, ornamental string round Thy waist, Thou hast bewitched gods and men, Thou mountest the lion and also pervadest the nether-world.

Hail, hail, O All-Pervading Deity! Thou art there in air, nether-world, sky and fire.9.219.

Thou art the remover of suffenings, liberator of the lowly, Supremely Glorious and hast irate disposition.

Thou burnest the sufferings and blemisges, Thou art the conqueror of fire, Thou art the Primal, without beginning, Unfathomable and Unassailable.

Thou blessest with punity, remover of reasonings, and giver of Glory to ascetics engaged in meditation.

Hail, hail, O operator of arms! The Primal, Stainless, Unfathomable and Fearless Deity! 10.220.

Thou hast agile eyes and limbs, Thy hair are like snakes, Thou hast sharp and pointed arrows and Thou art like a nimble mare.

Thou art holding an axe in Thy hand, Thou O long-armed Deity! Protectest from hell and liberatest the sinners.

Thou gleamest like lightning seated on the back of Thy lion, Thy frightful discourses create a sense of horror.

Hail, hail, O Goddess! The slayer of Rakatvija demon, ripper of the deomon-king Nisumbh.11.221.

Thou hast lotus-eyes, Thou art, O wearer of armour! The remover of sufferings, griefs and anxieties.

Thou hast laughter like lightning, and nostrils like parrot; Thou hast superb conduct, and beautiful dress. Thou seizest the tyrants.

Thou hast a winsome body like lightning, Thou art associated thematically with Vedas, O demon-destroying Deity! Thou hast very swift horses to ride upon.

Hail, hail, O Slayer of Mahishasura, the Primal, beginningless, Unfathomable, the Uppermost Deity.12.222.

Listening to the tune of the harmonious resounding of the bell (in Thy camp), all the fears and illusions vanish away.

The nightingale, listening to the tune, feels inferior; the sins are effaced and joy wells up in the heart.

The forces of the enemies are scoched, their minds and bodies experience great suffening; when Thou showest Thy anger; in the battlefield, the forces cannot even run out of fear.

Hail, hail, O slayer of Mahishasura, masher of the demon Chand and worshipped from the very beginning. 13.223.

Thou hast superb arms and armour including sword, Thou art the enemy of tyrants, O Deity of frightful remperament: Thou stoppest only in great anger.