Guest guest Posted January 11, 2000 Report Share Posted January 11, 2000 This is the 4th name in shrii miinaakshii ashhTottaram. sachi means minister and vesha is role or act. That She took the act or role of minister. That is why SHE is called mantriNii. But it is an act or vesha, and not the real one. In reality SHE is the supreme being. Also a reference to HER as mantriNii is absent in shankara's miinaakshii pa~ncharatnam, miinaakshii stotram and agastya's yoga miinaakShii stotram. In miinaakShii stotram shankara worships HER as shabdabrahmamayI charAcharamayI jyotirmayI vA"nmayI nityAnandamayI nira~njanamayI tattvaMmayI chinmayI | tattvAtitamayI pAratparamayI mAyAmayI shrImayI sarvaishvaryamayI sadAshivamayI mAM pAhi mInAmbike || 8|| -- parabrahmapatnIm bhaje paaNDya baalam. parandhaama ruupaam bhaje paaNDya baalam. ameyAtma vidyaam bhaje paaNDya baalam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 12, 2000 Report Share Posted January 12, 2000 On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Ravisankar S. Mayavaram wrote: > This is the 4th name in shrii miinaakshii ashhTottaram. sachi > means minister and vesha is role or act. That She took the act or > role of minister. That is why SHE is called mantriNii. But it is I got the name wrong. It is not sachiveshhyaa but sachiveshii (sachiva + ishii). sachiva means minister and the name denotes HER as mantriNii. I realized it as soon as I went home. But this error was a blessing in disguise, as I spent the rest of evening and morning thinking about HER. Also even though shankara does not refer to HER as mantriNi in his pancharatnam or stotram on miinaaxii. In the stotram he calls HER muni-sute indicating HER as a daughter of a sage and it is needless to say that it denotes HER as maata~Ngii. More later, Ravi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 12, 2000 Report Share Posted January 12, 2000 Sri Ravi Wrote, >Also even though shankara does not refer to HER as mantriNi in >his pancharatnam or stotram on miinaaxii. In the stotram he calls >HER muni-sute indicating HER as a daughter of a sage and it is >needless to say that it denotes HER as maata~Ngii. > In contrast, Tripurasundhari Stotram of Sri BagavatpAdA is solely dedicated to Sri LalitA Maha Tripura Sundari. In this hymn, in every verse he indirectly refers to maataN^gi as ‘kadambavanavaasiniiM, kanakavallakiidhaariNiiM…’ And finally adds a beautiful shloka to explicitly recognize her form, kuchaaJNchitavipaJNchikaaM kuTilakuntalaalaMkR^itaaM kusheshayanivaasinIM kuTilachittavidveshhiNIm.h . madaaruNavilochanaaM manasijaarisaMmohinIM mataN^gamunikanyakaaM madhurabhaashhiNImaashraye .. 5.. This vividly describes how she bears the vINa and is fully immersed in playing and singing in tune with it. As per my little knowledge goes, I think vArAhI manifested first. Both vishanga and vishukra had equal status in Bhanda senA, like wise ShyaamaLaa and VaaraahI in lalitaa’s army. The main reason why I suggested Sahasranaama was, it was composed by ‘vashinyaadi vak devI’ and later baktA’s like Bhaskararaaya, Diikshitar and NiilakanTa shivan hold sahasranaama instead of the puraaNa. As Sri RA.GaNapati elaborated on the puraaNa he stuck to the text as such. One compromise is, as these happen in different kalpa kaalas in one it could have been this way and in another the other way. giiti chakra ratha stithaayai guru guha nuta shyAmaLAyai namaste namaste .. giitAmR^iutAnanditAyai giirvANa vanditAyai . hata vishhanka samUhAyai kritalokopakArAyai .. nata bhairavAdi senAyai . navanava vidha bhaaNa karAyai .. Aravind ____ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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