Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 27:171-180

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Çri Gopikä-vastra-haraëa

Stealing the Gopis' Garments

Chapter 27: Verse 171-180

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 171.O form of creation, maintenance, and dissolution, O cause of creation, maintenance, and dissolution, O seed of the seeds of creation, maintenance, and dissolution, I offer my respectful obeisances to you. 172.O fair one, O wife who knows your husband's heart, O wife chaste and devoted to your husband, O wife devoted to the vow of following your husband, O delight of your husband, please give me a noble husband. I offer my respectful obeisances to you. 173.O most auspicious of all that are auspicious, O goddess filled with all auspiciousness, O seed of all auspiciousness, I offer my respectful obeisances to you. 174.O goddess loved by all, O destroyer of all that is inauspicious, O queen of all, O mother of all, O dear wife of Lord Çiva, I offer my respectful obeisances to you. 175.O potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, O eternal one, O goddess whose form is eternal, O goddess whose form is transcendental, O goddess whose form is not material, O goddess who has the power to assume any form at will, I offer my respectful obeisances to you. 176.Hunger, thirst, desire, compassion, faith, sleep, exhaustion, memory, and patience are all parts of your power. O potency of Lord Näräyaëa, I offer my respectful obeisances to you. 177.Shyness, intelligence, happiness, health, peace, good fortune, prosperity, and all else, are parts of you. O form of all, I offer my respectful obeisances to you. 178.O goddess whose form contains the visible and the invisible, O seed of the visible and the invisible, O goddess who gives the living entities the fruits of their works, O goddess beyond all description, O great goddess of material illusion, I offer my respectful obeisances to you. 179.O auspicious one, O fortunate one, O goddess who makes others fortunate, please give me the good fortune of having Lord Kåñëa as my husband. I offer my respectful obeisances to you. 180.Girls who on the last day of this vow recite this prayer to Goddess Durgä and bow down before her with great devotion attain Lord Kåñëa as their husband.