Nandi Stavah
नन्दिस्तवः
Sanskrit
कण्ठालङ्कारघण्टाघणघणरणिताध्मातरोदःकटाहः कण्ठेकालाधिरोहोचितघनसुभगंभावुकस्निग्धपृष्ठः । साक्षाद्धर्मो वपुष्मान् धवलककुदनिर्धूतकैलासकूटः कूटस्थो वः ककुद्मान्निविडतरतमःस्तोमतृण्यां वितृण्यात् ॥
Transliteration
kaṇṭhālaṅkāraghaṇṭāghaṇaghaṇaraṇitādhmātarodaḥkaṭāhaḥ kaṇṭhekālādhirohocitaghanasubhagaṃbhāvukasnigdhapṛṣṭhaḥ | sākṣād dharmo vapuṣmān dhavalakakudanirdhūtakailāsakūṭaḥ kūṭastho vaḥ kakudmān niviḍataratamaḥstomatṛṇyāṃ vitṛṇyāt ||
Translation
His back resounding with the deep clanging of the bell that adorns his neck, filling earth and sky with its din; his hump broad, handsome, graceful and sleek, fit to be mounted upon as he ascends toward the dark-throated one; he who is Dharma incarnate in bodily form; who, by the lustre of his white hump, has made the peak of Kailasa spotless; steadfast as a rock, may that bull, bearing a hump, utterly destroy the dense mass of grass that is your ignorance.
Deep Meaning
May Lord Nandikeshwara, who disturbs the sky and the earth with the deep, resounding clang of the bell that adorns his neck, who is fit to be mounted by Lord Nilakantha Shiva, whose back is full, handsome, graceful and sleek, who is Dharma itself in bodily form, and who, by the lustre of his white hump, has made the peak of Kailasa spotless, utterly shatter the dense mass of grass that is the thicket of your ignorance.