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නටරාජ ස්තෝත්රං (පතංජලි කෘතම්) This hymn is composed by Sage පතංජලි, (the author of යෝගසූත්ර). It is remarkable in completely avoiding long vowels(ආ, ඊ, ඌ, ඒ, ඕ, ඓ, ඖ). Where ever a heavy syllable is needed, පතංජලි employs an අනුස්වාර (ඞ්, ඤ්, ණ්, න්, ම්) in stead, and occasionally other consonant endings. So visually the hymn does not contain feet like කා, කී, කූ, කෝ, කෞ do; or horns like කේ, කෛ, කෝ, කෞ do. This is an astounding feat given that every fourth syllable needs to be a heavy syllable (ගුරු). As a result, you will hear the nasal sound අනුස්වාර every fourth syllable! Also not very coincidentally, පතංජලි's name itself does not contain legs or horns! There are two stories regarding its origin. 2. Once Sage ව්යාඝ්රපාද teases පතංජලි, saying "How can you see the Cosmic Dance of the Lord, when you do not even have horns or feet?". පතංජලි composes this hymn as an answer, symbolically cutting ව්යාඝ්රපාද's (meaning Tiger-foot) feet. The meter for this song is also called චරණශෘංගරහිතම්. And now the hymn in praise of Lord නටරාජ without the use of චරණ (feet) and ශෘංග (horns); indicative of නංදි and භෘංගි, Lord ශිව's attendants, as a metaphor; and indicative of long vowels of the alphabet, as poetic decoration! සදංචිත-මුදංචිත නිකුංචිත පදං ඣලඣලං-චලිත මංජු කටකම් । With his foot curved in joy, adorned by the very nature of Truth, and making a jingling sound by the bells on the anklet that adorns it, the one who is blemishless, of an unmoving abode, the one who destroys the cycles of life and death, is of the hue of the කදංබ flower who is the ultimate being, with the sky as his garments, whose throat resembles the blue color of all the oceans of the world, who is the jewel of consciousness, who is like the Sun to the lotus-like hearts of the enlightened ones, Worship that dancing form of the great Lord at චිදංබරම් in your heart. හරං ත්රිපුර භංජන-මනංතකෘතකංකණ-මඛංඩදය-මංතරහිතං The destroyer who vanquished the three worlds, who wears the great serpent, ananta, like a bracelet; who is endless and is of limitless compassion; whose feet are meditated upon, by the likes of බ්රහ්ම, ඉංද්ර and other Suras; who wears a crescent moon on his crown, who crushed යම with his foot; whose body is smeared in ashes, who won over the God of love, මදන; who is the eternal Lord, and who is the concentrated treasure of the sound ඕං, Worship that dancing form of the great Lord at චිදංබරම් in your heart. අවංතමඛිලං ජගදභංග ගුණතුංගමමතං ධෘතවිධුං සුරසරිත්- The Lord who protects all, who is of unending auspicious qualities, and whose nature is difficult to grasp; who held the multitudes of waves of the divine river ගංගා in his matted locks of hair, who vanquished යම's pride and who breaks worldly cycles; the auspicious one, whose arms spread wildly in all ten directions, who holds the young deer in his hand, and who is the Lord of all bound creatures; the destroyer, who is adorned with three eyes depicting Sun, Moon and Fire; Worship that dancing form of the great Lord at චිදංබරම් in your heart. අනංතනවරත්නවිලසත්කටකකිංකිණිඣලං ඣලඣලං ඣලරවං The one whose anklets make a jingling sound as he dances, being studded with innumerable gems of the nine kinds of precious stones; whose feet dance, as Lord විෂ්ණු and බ්රහ්ම themselves play the drums, offering a rhythm; the one who has for his close companions, Lord විෂ්ණු, who rides ගරුඩ, Lord කාර්තිකේය who resides a peacock, his celestial troupes including නංදි, ශෘංගි, රිටි, භෘංගි and others; the one whose feet are worshipped by the greats like සනංද, සනක and others; Worship that dancing form of the great Lord at චිදංබරම් in your heart! අනංතමහසං ත්රිදශවංද්ය චරණං මුනි හෘදංතර වසංතමමලම් The one with neither end nor beginning, who is revered by the Gods, who resides in the hearts of Sages, and who is pure; whose form constitutes the primordial elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, Space, Sun, Moon and the Self; who is of unending glory, who is the jewel of the three worlds, who has three eyes, and who vanquished the three cities; the compassionate one whose feet are worshipped by Sage සනංද; Worship that dancing form of the great Lord at චිදංබරම් in your heart! අචිංත්යමලිවෘංද රුචි බංධුරගලං කුරිත කුංද නිකුරුංබ ධවලම් The unimaginable Lord, whose neck is of such dark complexion as that of a group fo blumblebeems, who is as white as a bunch of කුංද flower-buds, who is worshipped by විෂ්ණු, ඉංද්ර and other Asura-slaying groups of Devas, and who wears the serpents as his ear-rings, the one who is unmoving, who was compassionate towards රතී දේවී, who is the treasure of auspiciousness to the pious, who vanquished ගජාසුර, and who is the Lord of the bound creatures; the one who is worshipped by ධනංජය, and who delights those who worship him; Worship that dancing form of the great Lord at චිදංබරම් in your heart! පරං සුරවරං පුරහරං පශුපතිං ජනිත දංතිමුඛ ෂණ්මුඛමමුං The Lord who is the beyond, who is the best of the Suras, who vanquished ත්රිපුරාසුර, who is the Lord of bound creatures, and who is the father of ගණේශ and ෂණ්මුඛ; the compassionate one who has flaming locks of hair, who is the Sun who makes the lotus-like sage සනක blossom, who is pleasant and white like snow; who is ever detached, who swallowed the poison born out of the churning of the ocean, and who is a treasure-trove of auspicious qualities; the one who grants boons to සනංද, and who has a calming Moon-like face; Worship that dancing form of the great Lord at චිදංබරම් in your heart! අජං ක්ෂිතිරථං භුජගපුංගවගුණං කනක ශෘංගි ධනුෂං කරලසත් The one who is without a beginning, who has the earth itself as his chariot, who has the great serpent වාසුකි as his bowstring, and the golden peaked Meru as his bow; who holds in his hands a deer, a sword, an axe and a hand-drum of earthen-red colour; who has Lord විෂ්ණු as his arrow, who unfailingly grants the desires of his devotees, who has the four Vedas as his horses, and who is unparallelled; who is accompanied by Goddess චංඩි, and who vanquished ත්රිපුරාසුර at once; Worship that dancing form of the great Lord at චිදංබරම් in your heart! අනංගපරිපංථිනමජං ක්ෂිති ධුරංධරමලං කරුණයංතමඛිලං The one who is an enemy of the bodiless one, Lord මන්මථ who upholds the burden of the earth, and who is of boundless compassion; who holds the raging fire in his hand, who is the enemy of Lord යම, and whose feet are constantly worshipped by ඉංද්ර and other Suras; whose body is fragrant, and shines with the lustre of hundreds of earthly morning Suns, which makes the groups of lotuses blossom; the one who is worshipped by පතංජලි, and who is the bird contained in the cage of the cosmic sound,ඕංකාර, Worship that dancing form of the great Lord at චිදංබරම් in your heart! ඉති ස්තවමමුං භුජගපුංගව කෘතං ප්රතිදිනං පඨති යඃ කෘතමුඛඃ This extremely playful hymn, which as been composed by the best of serpents, Sage පතංජලි, which is devoid of චරණ, and ශෘංග, and which grants the vision of the holy feet of the Lord; the proficient one who chants this every day, shall reach the utmost abode of assembly with the Gods, and from there shall attain to ultimate liberation beyond the repeated sorrowful cycles of life and death! ඉති ශ්රී පතංජලිමුනි ප්රණීතං චරණශෘංගරහිත නටරාජ ස්තෝත්රං සංපූර්ණම් ॥ And thus, the praise of Lord නටරාජ, composed by පතංජලි මුඉ, without the use of චරණ and ශෘංග is complete!
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