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Mahamrityunjaya Mantra: Text, Transliteration and Meaning
Mantra · 1 verse · original in Sanskrit
About Mahamrityunjaya Mantra
Rigveda 7.59.12, addressed to Rudra (Tryambaka), asking release from the bond of death. The source page calls it the "death-releasing verse".
Text: Rishi Vasishtha Maitravaruni (Rigveda 7.59) (Vedic)
Meanings and summaries are editorial, written for this library from the cited edition.
Text and meaning
Rigveda 7.59.12
त्र्यम्बकं यजामहे सुगन्धिं पुष्टिवर्धनम् । उर्वारुकमिव बन्धनान्मृत्योर्मुक्षीय मामृतात् ॥१२॥
tryambakaṃ yajāmahe sugandhiṃ puṣṭivardhanam | urvārukamiva bandhanānmṛtyormukṣīya māmṛtāt ||12||
We worship the three-eyed one, fragrant, who increases nourishment. As a ripe cucumber is freed from its stalk, may I be freed from death, not from immortality.
Source: Rigveda 7.59, Sanskrit Wikisource, revision 403390, Rigveda 7.59.12 (sukta 7.59, verse 12)
Sources and licence
- Rigveda 7.59, Sanskrit Wikisource, revision 403390. CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikisource transcription); underlying text public domain
The Rigveda text has no initial "ॐ", so none has been added.