Where Can We Go?

Where can we go
to escape the stench
of patriarchy?
Nagna says:
I haven't found
such a place.

--Nagna Devidas (Donald Traxler)

हम कहां जा सकते हैं
बदबू से बचने के लिए
पितृसत्ता का?
नग्न कहते हैं:
मुझे नहीं मिला है
ऐसी जगह

I Work, as Night is Falling

I work, as night is falling,
trying to protect
the Boss's tools.
What more can I do,
than I have done?
Nagna says:
Only the Boss will know,
and She will reveal it.

--Nagna Devidas (Donald Traxler)

मैं काम करता हूँ, जैसे रात गिरता है,
रक्षा करने की कोशिश कर रहा है
बॉस टूल
मेरे द्वारा और क्या किया जा सकता है,
मैंने क्या किया है?
नग्न कहते हैं:
केवल मालिक को पता चल जाएगा
और वह इसे प्रकट करेगी।

The Inner Time-frame

For some of us to appear
on the inner time-frame,
conditions on the outer
must also be right.
Nagna says:
We must not leave
our Mother's sight.

--Nagna Devidas (Donald Traxler)

हम में से कुछ को प्रकट होने के लिए
आंतरिक समय-फ्रेम पर
बाहरी स्थितियां
भी सही होना चाहिए
नग्न कहते हैं:
हमें नहीं छोड़ना चाहिए
हमारी मां की दृष्टि

argalAstotram 27

इदं स्तोत्रं पठित्वा तु महास्तोत्रं पठॆन्नरः | 
सप्तशतीं समाराध्य वरमाप्नोति दुर्लभम् || 27 ||

idaM stotraM paThitvA tu mahAstotraM paThEnnaraH |

saptashatIM samArAdhya varamApnoti durlabham || 27 ||

Having recited this hymn, one should recite the great hymn of seven hundred verses, 

and fulfilling that, one receives what is excellent and difficult to obtain.

                                     ॐ नमश्चण्डिकायै

                            OM namashchaNDikAyai

argalAstotram 26

तारिणी दुर्गसंसारसागरस्याचलोद्भवॆ | 
रूपं दॆहि जयं दॆहि यशो दॆहि द्विषो जहि || 26 ||

tAriNI durgasaMsArasAgarasyAchalodbhavE |

rUpaM dEhi jayaM dEhi yasho dEhi dviSho jahi || 26 ||

O saving raft who are the unmoving source of the ocean of samsara, which is difficult to cross,

give form, give victory, give glory, and kill the enemies.

ॐ
In the past 24 hours, the poetry blog has had 122 visits, of which 111 were to the three verses of the argalAstotram, an anga of the Devimahatmyam, that I published today. This is evidence of an extraordinary amount of interest, which I was not expecting and was totally unprepared for when I began this project. With only two verses to go to complete this text, I'm not sure what I will take up next, but will gladly accept guidance, from wherever it may come.

argalAstotram 25

भार्यां मनोरमां दॆहि मनोवृत्तानुसारिणीम् | 

रूपं दॆहि जयं दॆहि यशो दॆहि द्विषो जहि || 25 ||

bhAryAM manoramAM dEhi manovRRittAnusAriNIm |

rUpaM dEhi jayaM dEhi yasho dEhi dviSho jahi || 25 ||

Grant me a wife who is charming and of a following disposition.

Give form, give victory, give glory, and kill the enemies.