Illustrated Namokara Mahamantra

Author(s): Shreechand Surana, Surendra Bothra
Publisher: Diwakar Prakashan

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Meaning :
1. I remember with Om the nine line meaningful Paramesthi namaskāra that protects like a Vajra panjara (a cage as hard as diamond). .
2. Om namo arahantānań-This line is the helmet on my head (utter it keeping your open palm over your head). Om namo siddhanam-this line is a strong face plate (touch your face with the palm).
3. Om namo āyariyanaṁ-This line is the extremely strong breast plate and the back plate of the armour (move your open palm over the torso). Om namo uvajhāyānań-This line is like potent weapons in my hands (lift hands as if you are holding weapons).
4. Om namo loe savva sāhūņam-This line is the lower section of the armour, protecting both the legs (touch both the heels with your palms). Eso pańca namukkāro-this line is a seat hard as diamond (touch your seat and imagine it to be hard as diamond).
5. Savva păvappanāsano-This line is the strong rampart around me (move both the hands around, imagining a rampart). Margalānaṁ ca śàvvesiṁ-This line is the moat around me, full of burning coal. No one can cross it and enter.
6. Pad hamar havaï mangalam, svāhā-This line is the hard canopy over me.
7. This method of self-protection, derived from these lines of veneration, has been prescribed by ancient ācāryas. It is very effective and it pacifies even minor torments.
8. The practitioner who protects himself in the above said manner remembering the five lines of veneration is never afflicted by fear, shock, attack and mental worries.
This Vajra Panjara Stotra is chanted immediately before starting some ritual or meditation. Also it is used to create an armour for self-protection when one faces some hurdles, fear or enemy.
This is also said-Mahāraksā Sarvopadrava Santi Mantra. The Self-protection Indra Shield. (Kavaca)
The description of the self-protection Indra shield is also available in ancient works on mantrology, just like that of the Vajra panjara Stotra. In works like 'Mantrādhirāja Cintamani Sri Navakāra Mahamantra Kalpa' the mantras of the Indra Kavaca are mentioned as follows:
1. Om namo arihantänaṁ hraṁ hrdayam raksa rakṣa huṁ fat svähä. १. ॐ णमो अरिहंताणं हां हृदयं रक्ष रक्ष हुं फट् स्वाहा । 2. Om namo siddhäņam hrīṁ śiro rakṣa rakṣa huṁ fa svāhā. २. ॐ णमो सिद्धाणं ही शिरो रक्ष रक्ष हुं फट् स्वाहा। 3. Om namo āyariyanaṁ hrūń śikham rakṣa rakṣa huṁ fat svāhā. ३. ॐ णमो आयरियाणं हूं शिखां रक्ष रक्ष हुं फट् स्वाहा।
4. Om namo uvajjhāyāṇam hraim ehi ehi bhagavati vajra kavacaṁ vajrini vajrini raksa raksa huṁ fat sväha.
४. ॐ णमो उवज्झायाणं हैं एहि एहि भगवति वज्र कवचं वजिणि वजिणि रक्ष रक्ष हुं फट् स्वाहा ।
5. Om namo loe savva sähūnaṁ hrah ksipram ksipraṁ sādhaya vajrahaste sulini dustan raksa rakṣa hum fat svāhā.
५. ॐ णमो लोए सब्ब साहूणं हः क्षिप्रं क्षिप्रं साधय बज्रहस्ते शूलिनि दुष्टान् रक्ष रक्ष हुं फट् स्वाहा । Eso pańca namokkaro-vajra śilā prākāraḥ Savva pävappaņāsaņo-amstamayi parikhā Mangalānam ca savvesim-mahavajrägni prākāraḥ Padhamam havaï mangalam-Upari Vajra silä
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