LalithA SahasranAma: Sampatkari samArUdha sindhura vraja sevita

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Sampatkari samArUdha sindhura vraja sevitA : Attended by herds of

elephants conducted by sampatkari

 

Sampatkari is the name of a certain deity about whom the

svatantratantra says, "There is a certain VidyA called Sampatkari

of unimaginable power.. thus it is three-syllabled and I will explain

to you the method of using it.." This goddess is described in

LalitopAkhyAnA as the mistress of the elephants belonging to

Devi. "The goddess named Sampatkari sprang from the elephant-goad

of the supreme Lalita… she rode upon the elephant named

RanakolAhala

[delighting in war]… millions of the finest elephants followed

her."

 

Sindhura, elephants. There are many kinds of elephants, ie Bhandra,

Mandra, Mrga, etc

 

Or sampatkari means, the fullness of a joyous state of mind, in that

emotional state she is attended by herds of elephants, is aggregates

of objects such as sound etc. In the Kadimata, we read, "The

objects of the senses are [called ] elephants, so says the sages of

old times…"

 

The mental modification, having the ability of judging distinctly the

relations of the objects or the triad appeared in one knowledge is

known as sukha-sampatkari. The PratyabhijnA [iI, comm.] says ,"To

the ordinary person the connection between the receiver and the thing

received seems natural, but the peculiarity of Yogins is that they

carefully discriminate between the two." This is made clear by

VaradarAja in his commentary on the siva sutra [i, 19] "Worldly

joy and ecstatic bliss " [lokAnandah and samAdhisukham]. It is

this: "When a man realizes that the objects of senses are his own

mental ideas, his last [mental] state [turiya] reappears," and

further adds, "that this state [turiya] may again disappear and

reappear. This state of union called Sampatkari is permanent only

with great Yogins."

 

 

 

BhAskararAya's commentary

Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry