The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Lalitātriśatībhāṣyam

p. 188

p. 188

त्वं तत्प्रददातीति ।अथवा, एकातपत्रसाम्राज्यं चक्रवर्तित्वं तत्प्रददातीति वा ॥ॐ एकातपत्रसाम्राज्यपदायै नमः ॥एकान्तपूजिता ।एकस्य अद्वितीयस्य शोधितत्वपदार्थस्य अन्ते उपाधौ हृदि परिच्छेदकत्वात् पूजिता अहमित्यपरोक्षीकृता, ‘यत्साक्षादपरोक्षाद्ब्रह्म’ इति श्रुतेः ।एकस्य ब्रह्मणः अन्ते उप पूजिता षद् गत्यवसानार्थयोरिति धातुपाठात् उपनिषद्ब्रह्ममात्रतया पर्यवस्यतीत्यर्थः ।एकान्तपूजितेति नाम्नोपनिषदित्यर्थः ।अथवा, एकान्ते ‘गुहानिवाताश्रयेण प्रयोजयेत्’ इति श्रुतेः एकान्तस्थं ध्यानादिना योगिभिर्विषयीकृतेत्यर्थः ।अथवा, कामेश्वरेण एकान्ते स्त्रीलिङ्गे पूजिता ।संप्रदायप्रवृत्त्यर्थमादौ ईश्वरेण बहिर्यागक्रमेण आदिमसाधनेन सर्गाद्यकाले पूजादिना संतोषितत्वात् भूतार्थव्यपदेशः ।एकान्ते सर्वप्रविलापनसमये पूजिता ध्यानादिना संपादिता साक्षात्कृतेत्यर्थः ।‘कश्चिद्धीरः प्रत्यगात्मानमैक्षदावृत्तचक्षुरमृतत्वमिच्छन्’ इति श्रुतेरिति वा ॥ॐ एकान्तपूजितायै नमः ॥एधमानप्रभा ।एधमाना विवर्धमाना सर्वातिशायिनी प्रभा कान्तिर्यस्याः सा, ‘तमेव भान्तमनुभाति सर्वं तस्य भासा सर्वमिदं विभाति’ इति श्रुतेः ।ॐ एधमानप्रभायै नमः ॥

In plain words

You grant that supreme state. Or rather, she who bestows unrivaled imperial sovereignty. Salutation to her who embodies the supreme state of universal dominion. She is worshiped in solitude, for within the sacred space of the heart, beyond all limiting adjuncts, she is directly realized as the secondless reality of the great teachings, exactly as the scripture declares: 'Brahman is direct and immediate.' Through the profound etymology of verbal roots denoting final attainment, she is known as the very essence of the upaniṣad. Or because she is sought in the stillness of meditation within the cave of the heart, as enjoined by the sacred texts, she is directly experienced by steadfast yogis in profound solitude. Or she is intimately adored by Lord Kāmeśvara in her feminine form, her primordial worship at the dawn of creation by the Lord establishing the sacred stream of tradition. And at the time of final dissolution, she is realized directly in supreme solitude by wise seekers who turn their gaze inward with a yearning for immortality. Salutation to her who is worshiped in solitude. She is the ever-expanding splendor, the light that surpasses all lights, of whom the scripture proclaims: 'Everything shines only after that shining one; by its radiance all this universe is illumined.' Salutation to her of ever-growing radiance.

Close to the Sanskrit

You grant that, thus. Or, empire under a single umbrella, universal sovereignty, grants that thus, or. Om, salutation to her who has the state of a single-umbrella empire. Worshiped in solitude. Worshiped because of being a limiter in the heart, in the adjunct, of the one secondless purified meaning of the term, as 'I am immediate brahman', from the śruti. Worshiped near at the end of the one brahman, from the root rule of motion and ending, concluding as mere upaniṣad brahman; meaning the name 'worshiped in solitude' is the upaniṣad. Or, from the śruti 'one should employ in a windless cave shelter', having been made an object by yogis through meditation and others situated in solitude; meaning this. Or, worshiped in solitude in the feminine gender by Kāmeśvara. Because of being pleased at the beginning of creation through worship by the Lord by means of the external ritual path and primary means, the designation of an actual fact. Worshiped at the time of total dissolution in solitude, accomplished, realized directly through meditation and others; from the śruti 'some wise person, with turned eyes, desiring immortality, saw the inner self', or. Om, salutation to her who is worshiped in solitude. Growing splendor. She whose light is growing, expanding, surpassing all, from the śruti 'everything shines after him who shines, by his light all this shines forth'. Om, salutation to her of growing splendor.