LalithA SahasranAma [604] gunanidhih

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gunanidhih : Treasure house of qualities.

 

The SAmkhya doctrine is that though the sattva, etc. are specifically

three, they have endless modifications. The SAmkhya-sUtra [i.128]

says, "By the qualities of lightness, etc. each quality has equality

and inequality." Although sattva, etc. are substances, yet as they

exist for the sake of Purusa, they are called qualities.

 

Or, gunas, aggregates [vyUha], nidhi, nine, ie she has nine aggregates

of qualities. For it is said, "The Supreme Lord [siva], the highest

bliss, is in the form of nine aggregates, namely the aggregate of

time, of family, of name, of knowledge, of mind, of nAda, of kalA, and

of jiva. Thus there are nine." The commentator, Lolla, gives the

charateristics of each in the commentary [on the Sau. La. v. 34]

 

Or, guna rope, the rope called VatIrikA, which tied the ship during

the pralaya: Nidhi, the deity to whom it was tied. The following story

occurs in the Matsya and KAlika Prs. thus : At the time of

dissolution all seeds and rsis entered the boat at the command of

Manu, who was directed by the Lord, and the boat was tied to the horn

of the fish-incarnation. That rope became firm when Devi held

it. "Make a great rope of hides to be called VatIrikA, nine Yojanas

long and three cubits broad. Devi who is the protector of the

universe, the great MAyA, the mother of the world, the world itself,

will make that rope firm so that it will not give way." In another

place, "YoganidrA, the protector of the universe held the rope"

 

 

 

BhAskararAya's Commentary

Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry

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She is the treasury of gunAs, such as sattva, etc.

 

She is the fountainhead Avyakta, from whom flows the three gunAs --

sattva, rAjas and tamas; the material from which the Universe is

built.

 

- Dr. C. Suryanarayana Murthy, Commentary on the Sri Lalita

Sahasranama, 1962

 

, "NMadasamy" <nmadasamy@s...>

wrote:

>

>

> gunanidhih : Treasure house of qualities.

>

> The SAmkhya doctrine is that though the sattva, etc. are

specifically

> three, they have endless modifications. The SAmkhya-sUtra [i.128]

> says, "By the qualities of lightness, etc. each quality has

equality

> and inequality." Although sattva, etc. are substances, yet as they

> exist for the sake of Purusa, they are called qualities.

>

> Or, gunas, aggregates [vyUha], nidhi, nine, ie she has nine

aggregates

> of qualities. For it is said, "The Supreme Lord [siva], the highest

> bliss, is in the form of nine aggregates, namely the aggregate of

> time, of family, of name, of knowledge, of mind, of nAda, of kalA,

and

> of jiva. Thus there are nine." The commentator, Lolla, gives the

> charateristics of each in the commentary [on the Sau. La. v. 34]

>

> Or, guna rope, the rope called VatIrikA, which tied the ship during

> the pralaya: Nidhi, the deity to whom it was tied. The following

story

> occurs in the Matsya and KAlika Prs. thus : At the time of

> dissolution all seeds and rsis entered the boat at the command of

> Manu, who was directed by the Lord, and the boat was tied to the

horn

> of the fish-incarnation. That rope became firm when Devi held

> it. "Make a great rope of hides to be called VatIrikA, nine Yojanas

> long and three cubits broad. Devi who is the protector of the

> universe, the great MAyA, the mother of the world, the world

itself,

> will make that rope firm so that it will not give way." In another

> place, "YoganidrA, the protector of the universe held the rope"

>

>

>

> BhAskararAya's Commentary

> Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry

>