Saubhagyabhaskara, Bhaskararaya commentary on the Lalitasahsranama.

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sri Bhaskararaya Makhin of Bhasuranandanatha (one of our members

is lucky to have the same diksha name *smile*)is probably the

greatest of srividya upaskas and he wrote more than forty works

covering numerous subjects, he was also the greatest authority on

mantrasastra.

Saubhagyabhaskara is his commentary on the Lalita Sahasranama.

He explains eac name with such wonderful insight and scholarship that

just reading it becomes a beautiful meditation.

Shakti sadhana group has given us so much...and here I am, up in

the middle of the night(2.50 AM.); and i was kind of inspired to do

my two bit. I thought why not post a bit of this wonderful commentary

when ever possible. I am doing it to give something to the group from

which i have "taken" so much, and I a also doing it a as form of

sadhana. I dont know what really prompte me but i hope i can follow

through...

This is translation by R.Ananthakrishna Sastry, published by

Addyar Libray. I have not included the diacritical marks (to make

typing easier) and i am starting from the names perse and not the

introduction etc.

But I will include these opening lines:

 

I bow down to Lalita, the supporter of the universe, the ruler of

creation, preservation, and destruction, the srividya, the eternal,

the great Tripurasundari.....