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Bilvatavi Madhya lasatsaroje

Sahasra patre sukhi sannivistam |
Astapadambhuruha panipadmam
Stuvarna Varnam pranamami lakshmeem ||
Bilvatavi madhye = In the middle of bilva garden; Sahasra patre = with thousand petals; Lasat =
emitting light; saroje = In the lotus; sukha sannivistam = Sitting happily; Astapada mhuruha = The
eight petalled golden lotus flower; panipadmam = lotus like hands, holding them; suvarna varnam
= having golden hue colour; lakshmim = OH! Rama Devi (the wife of Visnu); pranamam =
Salutations to you.
OH! Sri Maha Lakshmi who is adorning in the middle of the thousand petalled lotus in Bilva Vana,
Holding Golden Lotuses in her hand, possessing golden hue colour. To her my Salutations.
2. Kamala sana panina lalate
Likhita mokshara punkti masya jantoh |
Parimarjayam mata ranghrinate
Dhanika dvara nivasa dukha doghrim ||
Kamala sanapanina = with the hand of Brahma; Asyajantoh = To this living being; Lalate =
on the fore head; likhitam = having been written; Dhanika = People with wealth; Dvara = at
the door steps; Nivasa = due to the fact of residing there; Dukha = Sorrow; Dogdhrim =
resulting in; Akshara panktim = the letters (the fate) written on the fore head (face), Matah =
OH! Mother; Te = your Anghrina = with your feet; Parimarjaya = wipe it out.
OH! Mother Goddess; remove my fate having been written by Brahma that I have to stand and
work at the doorsteps of the wealthy people and drive away such situation and purify me.
3. Amho ruham janma gruham bhavatya
Vaksha sthalam bhartu gruham murareh
Karunyatah kalpaya padma vase |
Leelagruham mehrudaya ravindam ||
Ambhoruham = Lotus; Janmagruham = Mothers house; Bhavatya = Forour sake; Vakshasthalam
= the chest; Bhartugruham = The house of husband; murareh = The enemy of Murasura i.e. Sri
Maha Visnu; Me = Belonging to me; Karunyatah = with all benevolence; Kalpaya = Create them;
padmavase = The one that lives on lotus; Lilagruham = As the pompous house; Hrdayaravindam
= As the lotus of mind.
OH! MahaLakshmi! Your origin and birthplace is Lotus flower. Your aunts house (husbands
mother) also is the Chest of Sri Maha Visnu. Like wise make my lotus heart as pompous and
enjoyable house and make me ever grateful to you. Lotus has a special bearing on Goddess
Maha Lakshmi. She is born on the lotus and her eyes are like lotus and her hands resempble
lotus.
Lotus leaves contain Gold and eating on the lotus leaf enhances health. In Gayatri Homam red
lotus flowers are collected and dipped in Ghee and offered in Havis in Homa Khund with the
Swahakara Mantra of Gayatri to propriate Goddess Lakshmi to obtain Gold. Several Hundreds of
red lotuses are offered in Gayatri Maha Yajna depending upon the purascaran as and the desires
of the disciples.
Futher persons interested in Soura Jajna (i.e. Yaga of Sun God) the Homa Kunda has to be
prepared digging a wide pit measuring upto knee, fill it with water and upon it spread lotus leaves
and on them the twigs of lotus plants and above them lotus flowers, to make it as a flat form.

On this open space on the flatform place fire lit it as usual and perform, Boma with mantras in the
Agni Kunda. By performing this yajna of Sun God, the paramatma residing in the middle of Surya
mandala will be immensely pleased and he will obtain liberation(Arunam).
Lord Narayanas abode is Nira (water) and Narayani (Lakshmi) stays on lotus on the water.Water
is available before srusti and cause of srustis water only.
Sankaracarya ventilated in this small, concise and powerful Kanakadhara Stotra the impregnated
truth of dive splendour and his mission to grant happiness and peace to the ennobling people.
Bhagavatpada prayed and wrote powerful and protracted hymns on every diety he visited during
his wide travels along the length and breadth of this Country.
Hinduism owes its existence today to Adi Sankaracarya for its renaissance and his exposotion of
Hindu pantheon. Kanakadhara Stotra thus enhances our vision and bestows the grace of Sri
Lakshmi to fulfill our desires.

Om Shanti ! Shanti ! Shanti !