कीलक स्तोत्र
Kilaka Stotram
The pin that unlocks the Saptashati — fourteen verses on why the Chandi hymn is recited whole, and with knowledge, rather than in pieces.
समर्पितमाँ दुर्गाatha keelakamOm asya shreekeelakamantrasya shiva rishih, anushtup chhandh, mahaasarasvatee devataa, shreejagadambaapreetyarthn saptashateepaathaanggatvena viniyogh.Om namashchandikaayai.maarkandeya uvaacha
Om vishuddhajnyaanadehaaya trivedeedivyachakshushe.shreyhpraaptinimittaaya namh somaarddhadhaarine (1)
sarvametadvijaaneeyaanmantraanaamabhikeelakam.so'pi kshemamavaapnoti satatn jaapyatatparh (2)
siddhyantyuchchaatanaadeeni vastooni sakalaanyapi.etena stuvataan devi stotramaatrena siddhyati (3)
na mantro naushadhn tatra na kinychidapi vidyate.vinaa jaapyena siddhyeta sarvamuchchaatanaadikam (4)
samagraanyapi siddhyanti lokashangkaamimaan harh.kritvaa nimantrayaamaasa sarvamevamidn shubham (5)
stotrn vai chandikaayaastu tachcha guptn chakaara sh.samaaptirna cha punyasya taan yathaavanniyantranaam (6)
so'pi kshemamavaapnoti sarvamevn na snshayh.krishnaayaan vaa chaturdashyaamashtamyaan vaa samaahith (7)
dadaati pratigrihnaati naanyathaishaa praseedati.itthnroopena keelena mahaadevena keelitam (8)
yo nishkeelaan vidhaayainaan nityn japati snsphutam.sa siddhh sa ganh so'pi gandharvo jaayate narh (9)
na chaivaapyatatastasya bhayn kvaapeeha jaayate.naapamrityuvashn yaati mrito mokshamavaapnuyaat (10)
jnyaatvaa praarabhya kurveeta na kurvaano vinashyati.tato jnyaatvaiva sampannamidn praarabhyate budhaih (11)
saubhaagyaadi cha yatkinychid drishyate lalanaajane.tatsarvn tatprasaadena tena jaapyamidn shubham (12)
shanaistu japyamaane'smin stotre sampattiruchchakaih.bhavatyeva samagraapi tath praarabhyameva tat (13)
aishvaryn yatprasaadena saubhaagyaarogyasampadh.shatruhaanih paro mokshh stooyate saa na kin janaih (14)
. iti devyaah keelakastotrn sampoornam.
Sanskrit Wikisource — कीलकस्तोत्रम् (revision 305048)
Underlying Durga Saptashati liturgical text is public domain; cited Wikisource transcription is CC BY-SA
Complete fourteen-verse recension with viniyoga and colophon. Obvious typographic errors in the source transcription were normalised without altering wording (किच्ञिद् and यत्किच्चिद् to किञ्चिद्, तत्तप्रसादेन to तत्प्रसादेन, इत्थंरुपेण to इत्थंरूपेण, क्कापीह to क्वापीह, and one ASCII pipe restored to ।). No verse was added, removed or reordered. Some recensions carry sixteen verses.
कीलक स्तोत्र का अर्थ
Kilaka means a pin or wedge. The hymn explains, in the voice of the tradition itself, why the Durga Saptashati is treated as a text that must be approached whole and with understanding rather than used piecemeal for particular ends. Its argument is unusual among stotras: it says plainly that the hymn alone is sufficient, that Shiva therefore set a restraint upon it, and that one should begin only after genuinely understanding what one is doing — 'one who acts without understanding comes to grief.' Read together with the Argala Stotram and the Devi Kavach, it forms the third of the three limbs traditionally recited before the Saptashati.