
श्रीश्रीनरोत्तम-प्रभोरष्टकम्
Śrī Śrī Narottama-Prabhor-Aṣṭakam (By Śrīla Viśvanāth Chakravartī Ṭhākur)
श्रीकृष्णनामामृतवर्षि-वक्त्र-
चन्द्रप्रभा-ध्वस्त-तमोभराय ।
गौराङ्गदेवानुचराय तस्मै
नमो नमः श्रील-नरोत्तमाय ॥१॥
śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmāmṛta-varṣi-vaktra-
chandra-prabhā-dhvasta-tamo-bharāya
gaurāṅga-devānucharāya tasmai
namo namaḥ śrīla-narottamāya [1]
śrī-kṛṣṇa–Śrī Kṛṣṇa; nāma–Name; amṛta–nectar; varṣi–showering; vaktra–face; chandra–moon; prabhā–splendour; dhvasta–dispelled; tamaḥ–darkness; bharāya–unto the mass; gaurāṅga–Gaurāṅga; deva–Lord; anucharāya–unto the servant; tasmai–unto Him; namaḥ–I offer obeisance; namaḥ–I offer obeisance; śrīla-narottamāya–unto Śrīla Narottam. [1]
namaḥ–I offer obeisance, [and] namaḥ–I offer obeisance [again] tasmai–unto him, śrīla-narottamāya–unto Śrīla Narottam, anucharāya–unto the servant gaurāṅga-deva–of Lord Gaurāṅga, [unto He who has] dhvasta–dispelled bharāya–the mass tamaḥ–of the darkness (of ignorance) prabhā–with the splendour [of his] chandra–moon vaktra–face [which] varṣi–showers amṛta–the nectar [of] śrī-kṛṣṇa–Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s nāma–Name [1]
I offer obeisance and I offer obeisance again unto Śrīla Narottam Ṭhākur, the servant of Śrī Gaurāṅgadev who dispels the darkness (of everyone’s ignorance) with the splendour of his moon face which showers the nectar of Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s Name.
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