Subramhanya bhujangam – 33

And we are here, at the last shlokam of this wonderful work on Lord Murugan, composed by Saint Adi Shankara, set in the bhujangam metre. As any other devotional work, this also has the phalashruti or the results or benefits attained by chanting or listening to this work. The benefit of reciting or listening to

Subramhanya bhujangam – 31

We are in the last leg of this work. In this shloka, Adi Shankara offers his salutations and respects to everything that is associated with Murugan. “I bow to your peacock and also to your spear (vEl); I bow to the goat and your rooster; I offer obeisance to the sea and the temple at

Subramhanya bhujangam – 29

Previously, in shloka 25, Adi Shankara listed a few diseases and asserted that those diseases flee away at the sight of Murugan’s patra bhUti or the holy ash given on panneer leaves at Tiruchendur. This shloka 29 is also similar, where he prays to Murugan that no dangerous beings should harm us and the glory

Subramhanya bhujangam – 21

This shloka is also a prayer to Murugan to come before (us) when the end is near. When the end is near, we are tormented by the yama kinkarAs or the envoys of Yama, the Lord of death. Shankara prays to Murugan that when his time on the earth approaches the end and the fearsome

Subramhanya bhujangam – 19

This shloka which immediately follows the pAdAdi kEsha varNana shlokas (9 to 18) is a collection of epithets or nAmAs of Murugan. Adi Shankara implores Murugan to protect him. Adi Shankara calls out to Murugan with various names and apt descriptions – “KumAra, the son of IshA, Guha, Skanda, the chief of the Army of