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MOOKASRAM

Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam

No. 1, Salai Street, Kancheepuram 631 502

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 Sri Gurubhyo Namaha

Sri Mookasaaram

Sri Mookapanchashati is a very renowned sloka

literature on Jagadamba Sri Kamakshi, the presiding
deity of Kanchipuram.

The devi is also known as Sri Kamakoti. A boy who was

born dumb and deaf became a famous poet equal to Sri
Kalidasa. This metamorphosis happened thanks to the
blessing of Sri Kamakshi devi.

This stotra literature consists of five parts, namely, (1)

Arya shatakam, (2) Paadaaravinda shatakam, (3)
Mandasmitha shatakam, (4) Kataaksha shatakam, and
(5) Stuti shatakam.

Each part has hundred and odd slokas. Hence the name
panchashati. As the author was born dumb and deaf,
the work came to be known as Mookapanchashati
(Mooka means dumb).

The 20th Acharya of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Moolaamnaaya

Peetam (founded by Sri Adi Sankara Bhagavatpada) is
Sri Mookasankarendra Saraswathi Swamigal and as per
tradition he is the author of the above work. Next only to

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Sri Soundarya Lahari of Sri Adi Sankara Bhagavatpada,
this work has captured the head and heart of many
saints, acharyas and devout worshippers of devi. This
has happened down the ages.

Sri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati Mahaswami, the 68th

Acharya of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam, had extensively
spoken about this work which reveals Sri
Mahaperiyava's abiding respect and admiration for this
work. Similarly, Sri Chandrashekhara Bharati, the 34th
Acharya of Sri Sringeri Sharada Peetam, had been
reported to have gone into raptures while chanting
these slokas.

Sri Kanchi Mahaperiyava had culled thirty-one slokas

from this magnum opus for nitya parayanam, daily
chanting. These slokas have come to be known as Sri
Mookasaaram the essence of Mookapanchashati.

In the year 2017, The Kumbhabhishekam of Sri

Kamakshi temple at Kanchipuram and the
Kumbhabhhishekam of Sri Bangaru Kamakshi Amman
temple at Tanjore has been performed by Their
Holinesses Sri Sri Jayendra Saraswati Swamigal,
the 69th Acharya, and Sri Sri Sankara Vijayendra

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Saraswati Swamigal, the 70th Acharya of Sri Kanchi
Kamakoti Peetam.

As a mark of deep respect and reverence, Sri

Sadashivabramhendra Bhakta Jana Samithi dedicates
this book Sri Mookasaaram to the great guru parampara
of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam.

The Samithi prayerfully invokes blessings of the

Acharyas and Jagadamba Sri Kamakshi on all those who
helped in the release of this book.

Sri Sadashivabramhendra Bhakta Jana Samithi

Srimad Adi Sankara Bhagavad Padal Jayanthi

Chaitra Sukla Panchami (30.4.2017)
Hevilambi Nama Samvatsaram - 2017
Chennai

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celestial beings in the form of a flower, being the cool
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like the emerald stone, who attracted the heart of Lord
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who is adored in the Vedas as a jewel and protected in
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the Tadangas (an ear adorning ornament), who takes
the form of a young girl, who is the kundalini power
in the Mooladhara Chakra, who has taken the form of
Chandi when she gets angry with the enemies of her
devotees and who has created this world of movable
beings and immovable things, who is called Chamunda
as she has killed the demons Chanda and Munda
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praised by people of devotion and noble qualities,
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which are like the balcony of the palace where your
grace like the beautiful lady with the lotus like face
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sole of her divine feet of reddish colour, being
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which walk in a very gentle manner, which make its
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which drive away the darkness of the mind by the
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divine feet blesses the saints and good people by
spreading their greatness all over, increases their
poetic nature, blesses one with all blessed things, gives
an inexplicable maturity to ones mind, it breaks the
knot of desires. So what will it not do for one who
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young rising sun, make the utterances of the poets full
of sweetness like honey and make them blossom with
divine fragrance and also, like the young rising suns
bright rays removing the darkness in the eastern side,
the direction of Indra, they brighten the intellect and
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universe being adorned with the moon.
My prostrations to you, Kamakshi, who lives on the
banks of Kampa river, destroying the sins of Her
devotees
My prostrations to you, Kamakshi, who are eternal and
can be known only through the Vedas.
My prostrations to you, Kamakshi, who is of the form
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