LalithA SahasranAma [ LSBhasya series ] : sumerumadhyasrugasthA

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sumerumadhyasrugasthA : Dwelling on the peak of Mount Sumeru.

 

After describing the important seat of Devi as on the lap of

KameSvara's left thigh, the author now proceeds to describe some

other seats also of Devi. The Middle peak is the fourth one. The

great ascestic DurvAsa says in his LalitAstavaratna [vv. 2 to

4 ]:"Let the gold mountain be victorious, whose body is made of

the

whole universe, filled by the music of the divine ladies living in

the golden creeper-bowers of mountain peak; we salute the three

peaks of it, which are the seats of BrahmA, Visnu and Siva,

expanding to the four quarters [ of the globe ]. In the middle of

them there is another peak, four hundred yojanas in height,

beautifying the place by the golden rays of flowers and I worship

it"

 

BhAskararAya's Commentary

Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry.