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ārya-jambhala-stotra

Hymn to the noble Jambhala who holds the sea

    I prostrate before the noble Jambhala!
    Glorious lord of the waters, Protector! [You possess] a body that appears with one face and two hands! With a body of blue color, you radiate rays of light! The enlightened Akshobhya sits on the top of your head! You are adorned with the ornaments of the eight great nagas! I prostrate and praise [you], the source of the desirable and the necessary!
    In your right hand you hold a drop filled with blood! With your left hand you hold the mongoose of the treasury! I prostrate and praise him who exercises guidance [for the happiness] of those beings who are especially depressed by poverty!
    [Adorned] with wrathful attributes and the hair [you have] on the top of your head surging upward! Full bodied, [you appear] like a youth, a child, a little man! You sit with outstretched and bent [legs] on the seat of the lord of wealth! I prostrate and praise the source of all that is desired and needed!
    With clenched fangs, with sounds of hūṁ you subdue the unacceptable! Only by remembrance do you manifest the fulfillment of all thoughts! The Jewel of fulfillment of desires, that possesses all qualities! I prostrate and praise thee, O glorious lord of the waters!
    May through the praise of Uchushma, which is done with devotion, all holy and boundless spiritual merit be attained! May through this, liberation from the bondage of the suffering of poverty and misery be manifested in all, me and all living beings without exception!
    Thus concludes the hymn to the noble Jambhala who holds the sea, composed by Pandita Jnanavajra. Translated by Lama Karma Paljor (O.E. Filippov).