Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 27:11-20

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Çri Gopikä-vastra-haraëa

Stealing the Gopis' Garments

Chapter 27: Verse 11-20

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 11.O goddess who gives all auspiciousness and fulfills all desires, please fulfill my desire. O beloved of Çiva, I offer my respectful obeisances unto you." 12.After reciting this prayer, bowing down, and giving to the brähmaëas dakñiëä and all the offered foods, the gopis returned to their homes. 13.O sage, now please hear the regal prayer all the gopis devotedly recited before Goddess Pärvati, who fulfills all desires. 14.-15.When this universe of moving and unmoving beings was flooded with a terrible ocean of ignorance, Lord Kåñëa, resting on the surface of that ocean, gave this prayer to the demigod Brahmä, and then went to sleep. 16.When he was troubled by the demons Madhu and Kaiöabha, Brahmä recited these prayers to Goddess Durgä, the root from whom the material nature has grown. 17.Note: These names of Goddess Durgä are defined in the following verses. 18.In the name Durgä, the letter D means the destroyer of the demons", the letter U means the destroyer of obstacles", . . . 19.. . . the letter R means the destroyer of diseases", the letter G means the destroyer of sins, and the letter A means the destroyer of enemies and fears". 20.From hearing, speaking, or remembering Durgä's name, all these inauspicious things are destroyed. For this reason Lord Kåñëa Himself declares that Goddess Durgä is His transcendental potency.