O Lord Rudra,
with what adornment have You come today?

With a brilliant black mark on Your forehead
and Your long horn, Visana, in hand,
You carry Your drum, Dambaru,
and appear in a new form of Varabhaya.

You dance the intense Tandava dance.
As the ultimate desideratum of all,
You appear amidst the dark ocean,
in the form of the effulgence of millions of stars,
pertaining to the unexpressed universe.
O shelter and supreme controller of all,
the world is restless with vibrant movements!

By Your vibration, O Lord,
the embodiment of entities within and without time is observed.
By Your dance and revolution,

the web of maya is shattered.
By a wee bit of Your grace,
all sins are powdered down and wiped off,
O Greatest Dancer!