(Salutations to devi Kamakshi) who is like a lamp of Omkara in the courtyard of the palace of the upanishads situated on the mountains (alluding to devi Parvati incarnating on the mountains in the palace of Himavan). who is the illumination behind the four sacred texts (four Vedas) destroying even the most evil sins and revealing the light of the hamsa (the universal soul) within, who is like a parrot caged within the city of Kanchi from whom is surging out the waves of compassion, who is the queen of Sri Shiva; that Shiva who is the master of Kama (desire); we extol devi Kamakshi, the beloved of Sri Mahesha.

(Salutations to devi Kamakshi) whose nature is expressed by the Syllable hrim by reciting which the powers of aindri and Sri spreads forth, who as devi Bhuvaneswari, the embodiment of pure consciousness is always Showering boons and forgiving sins, who as the all-bearing mother of the world, stain free and pure, keeps off the sins of the world (from the hearts of the devotees), whose face shines like the full moon; we extol devi Kamakshi, the beloved of Sri Mahesha.

(Salutations to devi Kamakshi) who is called as “goddess of Speech” (devi Saraswati) and “daughter of the Milky Ocean” (devi Lakshmi) and … the “earth born daughter” (devi Sita) and who is the voice behind the shrutis (Upanishads) manifesting out of her own will, who is the one bestowing many fruits and manifesting in various forms, who is the destroyer of all Sufferings and transcendental in essence; we extol devi Kamakshi, the beloved of Sri Mahesha.

(Salutations to devi Kamakshi) who is the primordial cause of maya and whose pair of feet is worshipped in all the three worlds, who is the abode of the nectar of bliss within, the supreme knowledge of pure consciousness on whom the learned meditates, who is the great mother appearing as human being by her power of Maya, though always shining as pure consciousness like the radiance within a gem, whose movement is gentle like the king of elephants; we extol devi Kamakshi, the beloved of Sri Mahesha.

(Salutations to devi Kamakshi) who is the beloved of the devotees and like a milch-cow fulfills their wishes; whose movement is like the king of elephants, and who share the left half of the body of Sri Shiva, who is the bestower of auspiciousness, incarnated in a divine auspicious body Smeared with the perfume of Kasturi, who abiding in the banks of the Kampa river under a mango tree (aamra), surges forth her compassion, (devi Parvati meditated on Sri Shiva on the banks of the Kampa river at Kanchipuram) please make my life happy and prosperous, O divine goddess of Kanchipuram.