Source positions 1–10 · printed 1–10
Sourceनारदपञ्चरात्रे ज्ञानामृतसारतः श्रीपार्वत्युवाच देवदेव जगन्नाथ भक्तानुग्रहकारक । यद्यस्ति मयि कारुण्यं मयि यद्यस्ति ते दया ॥ १ ॥ यद्यत् त्वया निगदितं तत्सर्वं मे श्रुतं प्रभो । गुह्याद् गुह्यतरं यत्तु यत्ते मनसि काशते ॥ २ ॥ त्वया न गदितं यत्तु यस्मै कस्मै कदचन । तस्मात् कथय देवेश सहस्रं नाम चोत्तमम् ॥ ३ ॥ श्रीराधाया महदेव्या गोप्या भक्तिप्रसाधनम् । ब्रह्माण्डकर्त्री हर्त्री सा कथं गोपीत्वमागता ॥ ४ ॥ श्रीमहादेव उवाच शृणु देवि विचित्रार्थां कथां पापहरां शुभाम् । नास्ति जन्मानि कर्माणि तस्या नूनं महेश्वरि ॥ ५ ॥ यदा हरिश्चरित्राणि कुरुते कार्यगोरवात् । तदा विधते रूपाणि हरिसान्निध्यसाधिनी ॥ ६ ॥ तस्या गोपीत्वभावस्यकारणं गदितं पुरा । इदानीं शृणु देवेशि नाम्नां चैव सहस्रकम् ॥ ७ ॥ यन्मया कथितं नैव तन्त्रेष्वपि कदाचन । तव स्नेहात्प्रवक्ष्यामि भक्त्या धार्यं मुमुक्षुभिः ॥ ८ ॥ मम प्राणसमा विद्या भव्यते मे त्वहर्निशम् । शृणुष्व गिरिजे नित्यं पठस्व च यथामति ॥ ९ ॥ यस्याः प्रसादात् कृष्णस्तु गोलोकेशः परः प्रभुः । अस्या नामसहस्रस्य ऋषिर्नारद एव च । देवी राधा परा प्रोक्ता चतुर्वर्गप्रसाधिनी ॥ १० ॥
nāradapañcarātre jñānāmṛtasārataḥ śrīpārvatyuvāca devadeva jagannātha bhaktānugrahakāraka | yadyasti mayi kāruṇyaṃ mayi yadyasti te dayā || 1 || yadyat tvayā nigaditaṃ tatsarvaṃ me śrutaṃ prabho | guhyād guhyataraṃ yattu yatte manasi kāśate || 2 || tvayā na gaditaṃ yattu yasmai kasmai kadacana | tasmāt kathaya deveśa sahasraṃ nāma cottamam || 3 || śrīrādhāyā mahadevyā gopyā bhaktiprasādhanam | brahmāṇḍakartrī hartrī sā kathaṃ gopītvamāgatā || 4 || śrīmahādeva uvāca śṛṇu devi vicitrārthāṃ kathāṃ pāpaharāṃ śubhām | nāsti janmāni karmāṇi tasyā nūnaṃ maheśvari || 5 || yadā hariścaritrāṇi kurute kāryagoravāt | tadā vidhate rūpāṇi harisānnidhyasādhinī || 6 || tasyā gopītvabhāvasyakāraṇaṃ gaditaṃ purā | idānīṃ śṛṇu deveśi nāmnāṃ caiva sahasrakam || 7 || yanmayā kathitaṃ naiva tantreṣvapi kadācana | tava snehātpravakṣyāmi bhaktyā dhāryaṃ mumukṣubhiḥ || 8 || mama prāṇasamā vidyā bhavyate me tvaharniśam | śṛṇuṣva girije nityaṃ paṭhasva ca yathāmati || 9 || yasyāḥ prasādāt kṛṣṇastu golokeśaḥ paraḥ prabhuḥ | asyā nāmasahasrasya ṛṣirnārada eva ca | devī rādhā parā proktā caturvargaprasādhinī || 10 ||
English translation
Texts 1–2
Śrī Pārvatī said: O lord of lords, O master of the universe, O master kind to your devotees, if you are kind to me, if you have mercy for me, then, O lord, please tell me all you have heard, the most secret of secrets in your effulgent heart.
Texts 3–4
O lord of lords, the transcendental thousand names of Goddess Śrī Rādhā-gopī, which inspire pure devotional service, and which you have never told anyone, please tell to me. Why is the Goddess, who creates and destroys the universes, a gopī?
Text 5
Lord Śiva said: O goddess, O queen, please hear this auspicious and very wonderful truth, which destroys sins: For Her their are neither births nor material activities.
Text 6
When Lord Hari, out of a sense of duty, performs activities (in the material world), she, desiring to be near Him, assumes many different forms.
Text 7
I have already explained why She is a gopī. O goddess, now please hear Her thousand names.
Text 8
What I have never spoken in the Tantras and what they who yearn for liberation cherish, out of love for you, I will now speak.
Text 9
Day and night this knowledge is as dear to me as life. O daughter of the mountain king, please hear and regularly chant (these thousand names) as far as you are able.
Text 10
By Her kindness Kṛṣṇa, the master of Goloka, is the Supreme Master. Nārada is the sage of Her thousand holy names.
Complete Sanskrit Documents stotra witness and complete published English translation witness; printed text numbers are retained exactly.