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Shiva
StotramSanskrit
जटाटवीगलज्जलप्रवाहपावितस्थले गलेऽवलम्ब्य लम्बितां भुजङ्गतुङ्गमालिकाम्। डमड्डमड्डमड्डमन्निनादवड्डमर्वयं चकार चण्डताण्डवं तनोतु नः शिवः शिवम्॥
Transliteration
Jaṭāṭavīgalajjalapravāhapāvitasthale Gale'valambya Lambitāṃ Bhujaṅgatuṅgamālikām, Ḍamaḍḍamaḍḍamaḍḍamanninādavaḍḍamarvayaṃ Cakāra Caṇḍatāṇḍavaṃ Tanotu Naḥ Śivaḥ Śivam
Translation
On the ground purified by the stream cascading from his tangled locks, wearing a towering garland of serpents around his neck, to the resounding beat of his damaru drumming — may Shiva, performing his fierce cosmic dance, grant us auspiciousness.
Meaning
Composed as Ravana's hymn of praise, the verse paints Shiva mid-Tandava: river water (the Ganga) pouring from his hair, a living serpent as neck ornament, and the rhythmic drumbeat of his damaru driving the dance. The refrain prays that this same fierce dance bestow blessing rather than destruction.
Source
Shiva Tandava Stotram, attr. Ravana
Reverential homage invoking Śiva across manifestations—teacher-guided chanting.
Om, salutations to Shiva — the most fundamental Shaiva mantra, offering reverence to the auspicious, all-pervading consciousness that Shiva embodies.
Salutations to the great lord who wears the king of serpents as a garland, who bears three eyes, whose limbs are smeared with sacred ash — who is eternal, pure, and robed in the directions themselves. To him, present in the syllable 'Na', I bow.
I bow to that eternal Shiva-linga, worshipped by Brahma, Vishnu, and the gods; radiant with a stainless splendor; and destroyer of the sorrows born of worldly existence.