Verse 11

Naadbindu

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

घोषिणी प्रथमा मात्रा विद्युन्मात्रा तथाऽपरा । पतङ्गिनी तृतीया स्याच्चतुर्थी वायुवेगिनी ॥ पञ्चमी नामधेया तु षष्ठी चैन्द्र्यभिधीयते । सप्तमी वैष्णवी नाम अष्टमी शाङ्करीति च ॥ नवमी महती नाम धृतिस्तु दशमी मता । एकादशी भवेन्नारी ब्राह्मी तु द्वादशी परा ॥

Padapatha (Word Split)

घोषिणी । प्रथमा । मात्रा । विद्युत्-मात्रा । तथा । अपरा । पतङ्गिनी । तृतीया । स्यात् । चतुर्थी । वायु-वेगिनी ॥ पञ्चमी । नामधेया । तु । षष्ठी । चैन्द्र्य्-अभिधीयते । सप्तमी । वैष्णवी । नाम । अष्टमी । शाङ्करी । इति । च ॥ नवमी । महती । नाम । धृतिः । तु । दशमी । मता । एकादशी । भवेत् । नारी । ब्राह्मी । तु । द्वादशी । परा ॥

IAST Transliteration

ghoṣiṇī prathamā mātrā vidyunmātrā tathā’parā | pataṅginī tṛtīyā syāc caturthī vāyuveginī || pañcamī nāmadheyā tu ṣaṣṭhī caindry abhidhīyate | saptamī vaiṣṇavī nāma aṣṭamī śāṅkarīti ca || navamī mahatī nāma dhṛtis tu daśamī matā | ekādaśī bhaven nārī brāhmī tu dvādaśī parā ||

Translation

ပထမ မာထရာမှာ «ဃောṣိဏီ» ဟု ခေါ်သည်။ ဒုတိယမှာ «ဝိဒျုန်မာထရာ» ဟု ခေါ်သည်။ တတိယမှာ «ပတင်ဂိနီ»၊ စတုတ္ထမှာ «ဝါယုဝေဂိနီ» ဖြစ်သည်။ ပဉ္စမမှာ «နာမဓေယာ» ဟု အမည်ရှိ၍ ဆဋ္ဌမမှာ «ချိုင်န္ဒရီ» ဟု ခေါ်သည်။ သတ္တမမှာ «ဝိုင်ṣṇဝီ»၊ အဋ္ဌမမှာ «ရှာင်ကရီ»။ နဝမမှာ «မဟတီ»၊ ဒသမကို «ဓြတိ» ဟု ယူဆသည်။ ဧကာဒသမမှာ «နာရီ» ဖြစ်၍ ဒွါဒသမမှာ အမြင့်မြတ်ဆုံး «ဗြာဟ္မီ» ဖြစ်သည်။

Academic Translation

The first mātrā is called Ghoṣiṇī; the next is called Vidyunmātrā. The third is said to be Pataṅginī; the fourth, Vāyuveginī. The fifth is named Nāmadheyā; the sixth is called Caindrī. The seventh is named Vaiṣṇavī; the eighth, Śāṅkarī. The ninth is named Mahatī; the tenth is considered Dhṛti. The eleventh is Nārī; and the twelfth is the supreme Brāhmī.

Verse Context

• Upāsanā on nāda leading to laya (mind-dissolution) and Brahman
• Mahavakya: Indirect: provides a meditative methodology supportive of mahāvākya-realization; not a direct mahāvākya statement.
• Atharva
• Chandas: Mixed/irregular anuṣṭubh-like śloka (later Upaniṣadic metrical style)