There has been a deep desire to recite the Karpuradhi
Stotram for Kalika Devi for a very long time. That desire has been fulfilled
now and is being shared with all those interested. There is an interesting
incident in the presentation of this stotram. The shlokam in the Sanskrit
printed source given below has had a lot of printing errors and needed to be
cleaned up. The hymn is sung, put into Google drive, thence to iTunes and
then transferred to the cell phone for convenient listening anywhere; upon
everything being okay, the blog post is written to share with all. After
listening once in the cell phone, and ensuring that the recording was okay, the
next day when the song was played in the iphone, the cell phone file miraculously
got corrupted “temporarily” – this has NEVER happened before. After several
hours, the file did not show the corruption. This resulted in a thought that something
is acting up unusually.
Today, when this post was just about to be set up, it was
discovered that the very second word of the hymn was in error – in the printed
source and hence in the recitation, and it went unnoticed. Hence, the heart
felt that Kalika Devi wanted it fixed before sharing. The error HAS been fixed
thanks to Sri Kalika Devi intercepting in Her own subtle ways – that is how
powerful this stotram is !
The English transliteration source given below is relatively
cleaner of errors.
This is a very powerful hymn for Kalika Devi and at the same
time relatively short. The Sanskrit metre switches at about 3 minutes 45 seconds to
Shikharini. Please recite with devotion and the bliss experienced will be
phenomenal !
And now the audio: about 12 minutes 46 seconds long.
( Mobile devices: click download; then play.)Sanskrit lyrics can be found at:
Note that there are errors in the printed lyrics above that have been corrected in the audio.
English transliteration as well as meaning can be found at:
http://svayambhu.blogspot.com/2007/12/karprdi-stotra.html
Om Shree Kalika Devi Namo Namaha !
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