SRI VADIRAJA VIRACHITA “TEERTHA PRABHANDA” ಶ್ರೀ ವಾದಿರಾಜ ವಿರಚಿತ “ತೀರ್ಥ ಪ್ರಬಂಧ”

SRI VADIRAJA VIRACHITA “TEERTHA PRABHANDA”

ಶ್ರೀ ವಾದಿರಾಜ ವಿರಚಿತ “ತೀರ್ಥ ಪ್ರಬಂಧ”     

34. Kollhapura Sri Lakshmi Devi/ಕೊಲ್ಲ್ಹಾಪುರದ ಶ್ರೀ ಲಕ್ಷ್ಮೀ ದೇವಿ

ಅಮಾನವನಜಸ್ಥಾನಸರಸೀಕುಲಸಂಕುಲೇ|

ರಮಾ ಕೊಲ್ಲ್ಹಾಪುರಕ್ಷೇತ್ರೇ ವಸತೀತಿ ಕಿಮದ್ಭುತಮ್||84||

AmAnavanajasThAnasaraseekulasankulE|

RamA KollhApurakShEtrE vasateeti kimadBhutam||84||

SUMMARY: What a wonder it is that Sri Lakshmi Devi is residing in the holy place Kollhapur, which is brimming with numerous ponds that are always filled with innumerable lotus flowers?

Kollhapur is a very holy place as its name is mentioned in Puranas. It was earlier popular as Karaveera Kshetra. Kollhapur is about 28 miles from Meeraj Railway Statioon. Description of Kollhapur is available in the Sahyadri Cantoof Skanda Purana. Goddess Lakshmi Devi resides in this holy place.

There is a Treasure house near the ancient palace in Kollhapur. The temple of Sri Lakshmi Devi is behind that palace.

According to Venkatesha Mahatma in Bhavishyottara Purana, once sage Bhrugu kicks Sri Narayana on the chest. Unable to bear the instance, Goddess Lakshmi came to Kollhapur.

In Kollhapur, there is a sacred pond called Panchaganga Teertha. The water surface in this pond is fully covered by Lotus flowers. According to Puranas, Goddess Lakshmi sits in a lotus flower and Lotus is considered to be the residence of Goddess Lakshmi Devi. In the dictionary the meaning of Lakshmi is given as “Lakshmeehi PadmAlaya”.

ಧ್ಯಾತ್ವಾ(ss)ಧ್ಯಾತಾಂತಪ್ರಿಯಜನವಿಭವಾಯಾನ್ವಹಂ ಯಾ ಹೃದಂತಃ

ಖ್ಯಾತಾಖ್ಯಾತಾದೃಶಾಭ್ಯುನ್ನತಿ ವಿತರಣಶಕ್ತ್ಯಾಲಯಾ ಯಾ ಪಯೋ(s)ಬ್ಧೇಃ|

ಜಾತಾ(s)ಜಾತಾದಿದೇವವ್ರಜಮನುಜತತೇಃ ಶ್ರೇಯಸೇ ಭೂಯಸೇ ಸಾ

ಮಾತಾ ಮಾ ತಾಪಸಾರಾಧಿತ ಪದಕಕಲಾಧೋಕ್ಷಜಪ್ರೇಯಸೀ ಸ್ಯಾತ್||85||

DhyAtwA(ss)DhyAtAntapriyajanaviBhavAyAnvaham yA hrudantaha

KhyAtAKhyAtAdrushABhyunnati vitaranashaktyAlayA yA payO(s)bDhEhe|

JAtA(s)jAtAdidEvavrajamanujatatEhe shrEyasE BhUyasE sA

MAtA mA tApasArADhita padakakalADhOkShajaprEyasee syAt||85||

SUMMARY: Goddess Lakshmi, who is being meditated by devotees yearning for wealth and praying within their hearts, who is known as the Goddess of Welfare, who, befitting her name as the Goddess of Wealth, is capable of providing wealth, who emanated from the cosmic Milky Ocean and is the Mother of four-faced Brahma, other deities and the entire humanity, who possesses the lotus feet that are worshipped by the most knowledgeable Brahma and Rishis, who is the beloved of Sri Narayana, may remain the Goddess meant for worldly pleasure and prosperity as well as the pleasure in the world hereafter. 

Goddess Lakshmi Devi is the Goddess of Wealth; she is the consort of Lord Narayana; she came out of the Cosmic Milky Ocean during the churning that the deities and demons carried out in search of elixir. People desirous of economic prosperity and liberation from poverty throng the temple of Sri Lakshmi at Kollhapur.

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