LalithA SahasranAma [610] pratipan mukhya rAkAnta tithi mandala pUjitA

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pratipan mukhya rAkAnta tithi mandala pUjitA : Worshipped on the group

[of fifteen days] from the pratipad to the full moon.

 

The meaning is : she is to be worshipped by the modes laid down for

the different days as described by the Tantras.

 

Or, Pratipad, Kamesvari, rAkA, CitrA deity, tithi, nityA [ deities],

mandala, the aggregate of these. She is surrounded by the three lines

of the triangle.

 

Or, She is worshipped by the aggregate of the nityA deities of the

first to fifteenth. These deities are described in the VarAha

Pr. : "How did Agni originate and how the asvins, O great ascetic, how

GaurI, Ganapati, nAgas, Guha, SUrya, Matrs, DurgA, the quarters,

Kubera, Visnu, Yama, the grandsire Siva, pitrs, the moon, O Muni? How

do these deities take form in the body? What is their sphere of

action, what their names, what their abode?" Thus questioned he

explains in sixteen chapters, the origin of Agni and the rest as the

deities of the first fifteen lunar days. The same is mentioned in the

KAdimata also. But in the latter work the new moon day is counted as

the fifteenth day and the full moon day as the sixteenth, but in the

former work the full moon is counted as the fifteenth. Hence the full

moon day may be taken either as the fifteenth or sixteenth.

 

 

BhAskararAya's Commentary

Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry