Nārāyaṇāya — MBTN invocation verse

vasantatilakāMahābhārata Tātparya Nirṇaya · 1.1 (Madhvācārya)

Kannada

ನಾರಾಯಣಾಯ ಪರಿಪೂರ್ಣಗುಣಾರ್ಣವಾಯ ವಿಶ್ವೋದಯಸ್ಥಿತಿಲಯೋನ್ನಿಯತಿಪ್ರದಾಯ‖ಜ್ಞಾನಪ್ರದಾಯ ವಿಬುಧಾಸುರಸೌಖ್ಯದುZಖಸತ್ಕಾರಣಾಯ ವಿತತಾಯ ನಮೋನಮಸ್ತೇ‖

Devanāgarī

नारायणाय परिपूर्णगुणार्णवाय विश्वोदयस्थितिलयोन्नियतिप्रदाय‖ज्ञानप्रदाय विबुधासुरसौख्यदुZखसत्कारणाय वितताय नमोनमस्ते‖

Romanized (IAST)

nārāyaṇāya paripūrṇaguṇārṇavāya viśvodayasthitilayonniyatipradāya‖jñānapradāya vibudhāsurasaukhyaduZkhasatkāraṇāya vitatāya namonamaste‖

Romanized (IAST)

nārāyaṇāya paripūrṇa-guṇārṇavāya viśvodaya-sthiti-layonniyati-pradāya | jñāna-pradāya vibudhāsura-saukhya-duḥkha-sat-kāraṇāya vitatāya namo namas te ||

What it means

The opening invocation of Madhvācārya's Mahābhārata Tātparya Nirṇaya: repeated obeisance to Nārāyaṇa -- the ocean of perfect, complete auspicious qualities; who ordains the universe's creation, maintenance and dissolution; the giver of true knowledge; the real cause behind the happiness and sorrow of both gods and demons; the one who pervades everything.

Syllable timings on this page are an estimate: derived from the chant's own guru/laghu (light/heavy syllable) prosody and scaled to this clip's real length, not a frame-exact forced alignment — so the highlight tracks the rhythm closely but may drift slightly from the exact syllable being sung. Each syllable is transliterated independently into Kannada, Devanāgarī, and IAST, matching the three-script display used elsewhere in the project.

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