LalithA SahasranAma [356] sadAcArapravartikA

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sadAcArapravartikA : Inciting to right action.

 

Because she destroys the wicked, and she incites to right action. The

expression means : She gives the inclination to observe the precepts

enjoined in the Karma-kAnda and the Advaita-brahman in the JNAnakAnda,

through the means laid down in the PurAnas. It is said in the KURma

Pr. by Devi herself :"The eighteen PurAnas, O King, were promulgated

by VyAsa, by the command of Brahman; in them righteousness [dharma] is

established. The other supplementary [upa] PurAnas were promulgated by

his pupils. In every age [yuga] he [VyAsa] the knower of the science

of righteousness, is the promulgator of all [PurAnas, etc]. SiksA,

Kalpa Grammer, Nirukta, Chandas and Jyotisa, and logic etc. [four] and

the four Vedas, thus the fourteen [scriptures] are the source of

knowledge. The rightousness [dharma], O best one, is not to be found

elsewhere. Thus the supreme dharma, which has come down from the

grandsire, Manu, VyAsa and others, by my command, is established till

the dissolution of the universe."

 

 

BhAskararAya's Commentary

Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry