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Shloka 18

Pañcatattva-Pūjā: The Fivefold Vyuha of Hari, Mantras, Nyāsa, Maṇḍala, and Stotra

Devanagari script

ॐ समस्तपरिवारायाच्युताय नमः / ॐ धात्रे नमः / ॐ विधात्रे नमः / ॐ आधारशक्तयै नमः / ॐ कूर्माय नमः / ॐ अनन्ताय नमः / ॐ पृथिव्यैनमः / ॐ धर्माय नमः / ॐ धर्माय नमः / ॐ ज्ञानाय नमः / ॐ वैराग्याय नमः / ॐ ऐश्वर्याय नमः / ॐ अज्ञानाय नमः / ॐ अनैश्वर्याय नमः / ॐ अं अर्कमण्डलाय नमः / ॐ सों सोममणाडलाय नमः / ॐ वं वह्निमण्डलाय नमः / ॐ वं वासुदेवाय परब्रह्मणे शिवाय तेजोरूपाय व्यापिने सर्वदेवाधिदेवाय नमः / ॐ पाञ्चजन्याय नमः / ॐ सुदर्शवनाय नमः / ॐ गदायै नमः / ॐ पद्माय नमः / ॐ श्रियै नमः / ॐ ह्रियै नमः / ॐ पुष्ट्यै नमः / ॐ गीत्यै नमः / ॐ शक्त्यै नमः / ॐ प्रीत्यै नमः / ॐ इन्द्राय नमः / ॐ अग्नये नमः / ॐ यमाय नमः / ॐ निरृतये नमः / ॐ वरुणाय नमः / ॐ वायवे नमः / ॐ सोमाय नमः / ॐ ईशानाय नमः / ॐ अनन्ताय नमः / ॐ ब्रह्मणे नमः / ॐ विष्वक्सेनाय नमः

Transliteration

oṃ samastaparivārāyācyutāya namaḥ / oṃ dhātre namaḥ / oṃ vidhātre namaḥ / oṃ ādhāraśaktayai namaḥ / oṃ kūrmāya namaḥ / oṃ anantāya namaḥ / oṃ pṛthivyainamaḥ / oṃ dharmāya namaḥ / oṃ dharmāya namaḥ / oṃ jñānāya namaḥ / oṃ vairāgyāya namaḥ / oṃ aiśvaryāya namaḥ / oṃ ajñānāya namaḥ / oṃ anaiśvaryāya namaḥ / oṃ aṃ arkamaṇḍalāya namaḥ / oṃ soṃ somamaṇāḍalāya namaḥ / oṃ vaṃ vahnimaṇḍalāya namaḥ / oṃ vaṃ vāsudevāya parabrahmaṇe śivāya tejorūpāya vyāpine sarvadevādhidevāya namaḥ / oṃ pāñcajanyāya namaḥ / oṃ sudarśavanāya namaḥ / oṃ gadāyai namaḥ / oṃ padmāya namaḥ / oṃ śriyai namaḥ / oṃ hriyai namaḥ / oṃ puṣṭyai namaḥ / oṃ gītyai namaḥ / oṃ śaktyai namaḥ / oṃ prītyai namaḥ / oṃ indrāya namaḥ / oṃ agnaye namaḥ / oṃ yamāya namaḥ / oṃ nirṛtaye namaḥ / oṃ varuṇāya namaḥ / oṃ vāyave namaḥ / oṃ somāya namaḥ / oṃ īśānāya namaḥ / oṃ anantāya namaḥ / oṃ brahmaṇe namaḥ / oṃ viṣvaksenāya namaḥ

Translation

အိုမ်—အကျူတ (Acyuta) ကို၊ သူ၏ ദിവ്യပရိဝါ (အဖွဲ့အစည်း) အားလုံးနှင့်တကွ နမဿကာရ။ ဓာတೃ (Dhātṛ) နှင့် ဝိဓာတೃ (Vidhātṛ) ကို နမဿကာရ။ အာဓာရ-ရှက္တိ (Ādhāra-śakti)၊ ကူးರ್ಮ (Kūrma)၊ အနန္တ (Ananta) ကို နမဿကာရ။ ပृथဝီ (မြေ) နှင့် ဓမ္မ (Dharma) ကို; ဉာဏ (Jñāna)၊ ဝိုင်ရာဂျ (Vairāgya)၊ အိုင်ရှွရျ (Aiśvarya) ကို; ထို့ပြင် အဉာဏ (A-jñāna) နှင့် အနိုင်ရှွရျ (An-aiśvarya) ကိုလည်း နမဿကာရ။ အာရကမဏ္ဍလ (နေဝိုင်း)၊ သောမမဏ္ဍလ (လဝိုင်း)၊ ဝဟ္နိမဏ္ဍလ (မီးဝိုင်း) ကို နမဿကာရ။ ဝာစုဒေဝ (Vāsudeva)—ပရဗြဟ္မ (Supreme Brahman)—ရှီဝ (Śiva)၊ တေဇောရူပ (အလင်းတရား၏ရုပ်)၊ အလုံးစုံပြန့်နှံ့သူ၊ ဒေဝတို့၏အထက်ဒေဝကို နမဿကာရ။ ပာဉ္စဇနျ (Pāñcajanya)၊ စုဒർശန (Sudarśana)၊ ဂဒါ (mace)၊ ပဒ္မ (lotus) ကို နမဿကာရ။ ရှရီ (Śrī)၊ ဟရီ (Hrī)၊ ပုဋ္ဌိ (Puṣṭi)၊ ဂီတီ (Gīti)၊ ရှက္တိ (Śakti)၊ ပရီတိ (Prīti) ကို နမဿကာရ။ အိန္ဒြ (Indra)၊ အဂ္နိ (Agni)၊ ယမ (Yama)၊ နိရဋ္တိ (Nirṛti)၊ ဝရုဏ (Varuṇa)၊ ဝါယု (Vāyu)၊ သောမ (Soma)၊ အီရှာန (Īśāna) ကို နမဿကာရ။ ထပ်မံ၍ အနန္တ၊ ဗြဟ္မာ (Brahmā) နှင့် ဝိရှွက္စေန (Viṣvaksena) ကို နမဿကာရ။

Word by Word

samastaparivārāyato the one with the entire retinue

acyutāyato Acyuta (The Infallible Vishnu)

dhātreto Dhata (Creator/Supporter)

vidhātreto Vidhata (Disposer/Creator)

ādhāraśaktayaito the supporting power/energy

kūrmāyato the Tortoise avatar

anantāyato Ananta (Serpent/Infinite)

pṛthivyaito the Earth

dharmāyato Dharma (Righteousness)

jñānāyato Knowledge

vairāgyāyato Detachment

aiśvaryāyato Sovereignty/Power

arkamaṇḍalāyato the orb of the Sun

somamaṇḍalāyato the orb of the Moon

vahnimaṇḍalāyato the orb of Fire

vāsudevāyato Vasudeva (Krishna)

parabrahmaṇeto the Supreme Brahman

tejorūpāyato the one whose form is light/splendor

vyāpineto the All-pervading one

sarvadevādhidevāyato the Lord of all gods

pāñcajanyāyato the Pancajanya conch

sudarśanāyato the Sudarshana discus

gadāyaito the Mace

padmāyato the Lotus

śriyaito Lakshmi (Prosperity)

indrāyato Indra

agnayeto Agni (Fire)

yamāyato Yama (Death)

nirṛtayeto Nirriti

varuṇāyato Varuna

vāyaveto Vayu (Wind)

somāyato Soma (Moon)

īśānāyato Ishana

brahmaṇeto Brahma

viṣvaksenāyato Vishvaksena

Speaker

Lord Viṣṇu (teaching Garuḍa; mantra-style salutations)

Philosophical Teaching

Concept: Sarva-devatā-samarpaṇa: all powers—cosmic, ethical, and elemental—are honored as dependent on and included within Vāsudeva, the all-pervading Parabrahman.

Vedantic Theme: Brahman as Vāsudeva (sarva-vyāpin), with nāma-rūpa and devatā-bheda integrated into one supreme reality (upāsanā leading toward non-dual insight).

Application: Use as a protective and integrative stotra in pūjā: invoke supports (Ādhāra-śakti, Kūrma, Ananta), honor dharma/jñāna/vairāgya, then consecrate directions and instruments (śaṅkha-cakra-gadā-padma) before japa/meditation.

Verse Rasa

Primary Rasa: adbhuta

Secondary Rasa: shanta

Geographic Context

Type: cosmological-ritual map

Cross References

Related Themes: Garuda Purana 1.32.17 (aṅga-mantras); Garuda Purana 1.32.19-21 (maṇḍala, mudrā, dhyāna, āsana-pūjā, dvāra-devatā)

Characters & Entities

Acyuta (Viṣṇu)

Dhātṛ

Vidhātṛ

Ādhāra-śakti

Kūrma

Ananta (Śeṣa)

Pṛthivī

Dharma

Arka (Sun)

Soma (Moon)

Vahni/Agni

Vāsudeva

Pāñcajanya

Sudarśana

Gadā

Padma

Śrī

Hrī

Puṣṭi

Gīti

Śakti

Prīti

Indra

Yama

Nirṛti

Varuṇa

Vāyu

Īśāna

Brahmā

Viṣvaksena

FAQs

What is the purpose of this Garuda Purana verse of repeated ‘namaḥ’ salutations?

It functions as a protective and integrative invocation—honoring Viṣṇu as the Supreme pervading reality while also acknowledging the cosmic powers (devas, guardians, and divine attributes) that uphold dharma and order.

Why are Yama and other deities mentioned together with Vāsudeva in this verse?

The verse presents a hierarchy: Viṣṇu/Vāsudeva as sarva-devādhi-deva (above all gods), while deities like Yama, Agni, Varuṇa, and Vāyu are respected as functional cosmic authorities within His order.

Practical application of this verse today?

It can be recited as a daily purification/protection prayer before japa, pūjā, or śrāddha-related observances—cultivating devotion, ethical alignment with dharma, and remembrance of the divine order governing life and death.