Whatever is good for your devotees and for us, O Narahari, O Hari, accomplish it swiftly, O knower of what must be done, O you whose radiance equals ten thousand suns of the final dissolution.
O you of roaring, fierce mane, of hard knitted brow and fierce curving eye; O man-lion whose face blazes with leaping flames — destroy my enemies, O Hari, destroy.
unnaddhakarṇavinyāsa vivṛtānana bhīṣaṇa | gatadūṣaṇa me śatrūn hare narahare hara ||
O fearsome one with erect, flared ears and wide-gaping mouth, remover of every fault — destroy my enemies, O Hari, O Narahari.
Verse 5 — hare śikhiśikhodbhāsvaduraḥ krūranakhotkara |…
hare śikhiśikhodbhāsvaduraḥ krūranakhotkara | arīn saṃhara daṃṣṭrograsphurajjihva nṛsiṃha me ||
O Hari, whose chest blazes like the crest of a flame, bristling with cruel claws — with your terrible fangs and quivering tongue, destroy my enemies, O Nṛsiṃha.
jaṭharasthajagajjāla karakoṭyudyatāyudha | kaṭikalpataṭitkalpavasanārīn hare hara ||
O you who hold the web of the worlds within your belly, weapons upraised in your millions of hands, your garment flashing at the waist like lightning — destroy the enemies, O Hari.
This new Naraharyaṣṭaka, spoken by the ascetic Vādirāja — one who recites it, by the grace of Nṛsiṃha, destroys his foes in an instant.
About Naraharyaṣṭaka
Naraharyaṣṭaka is a Sanskrit stotra, composed by Śrī Vādirāja Tīrtha, addressed to Narasimha — a Ashtakam. It is presented here in Devanagari, Roman (IAST), Kannada, each verse with its English meaning. Source text: sanskritdocuments.org.
Also known as: Narahari Ashtaka.
A revered Mādhwa saint and pontiff of Sode, and a prolific poet-scholar renowned for works such as the Daśāvatāra Stuti and Lakṣmī Śobhāne.
Naraharyaṣṭaka is a Sanskrit stotra (devotional hymn), composed by Śrī Vādirāja Tīrtha, addressed to Narasimha, of 9 verses. On Avabodhak every verse is shown with its English meaning, so you can understand the text line by line as you read.
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Who composed Naraharyaṣṭaka?
Naraharyaṣṭaka is attributed to Śrī Vādirāja Tīrtha.
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