shrii lalitaa sahasranaama puurva - 1

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Dear Devotees of ambaa:

 

namaH shivAbhyAm

 

 

I posted this first verse quite sometime ago. I am planning to restart this

series. Here is the first verse again and you can read this in a standard

roman transliteration at See http://ambaa.org/download/SriLalita1000.pdf .

 

I have enclosed all the sanskrit words in and the sign ":" is used to

capitalize the letter following it. This is done automatically by a script

and converted to LaTeX format.

 

Thank you.

 

Ravi

 

 

<:shivaabhyannamaH>

 

<:lalitaa :sahasranaama :stotram.h>

 

<:puurva :bhaagaH>

 

<:agastya uvaacha>:

 

<:ashvaanana mahaabuddhe sarvashaastravishaarada

:kathitaM lalitaadevyaaH charitaM paramaadbhutam.h 1 >

 

Free Translation:

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O Lord <:hayagriiva>, the horse--faced one! you are endowed with great

wisdom and you are a master of all scriptures! from you I have heard

the most wonderful history of <:shrii :lalitaa :devii.>

 

Additional Notes:

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* <:ashvaanana> means ``Horse-Faced''. <:shriimad :devii

:bhaagavataM> explains how Lord <:naaraayaNa> became the horse--faced

<:hayagriiva.>

 

* Lord <:hayagriiva> is well known in all traditions as the master

of all knowledge. For instance, refer to the line of <:vedaanta

:deshika> ``<aadhaaraM sarva vidyaanaaM shrii hayagriivamupaasmahe.''>

 

* The name <:lalitaa> has several meanings. According to <:shrii

:lalitaa :trishatii> it means ``She is the most beautiful one'' --

``<lalitaM trishhu sundaraM -- iti vachaanaat atyantasaundaryavatii iti

arthaH.''>

 

* The story or history of <:shrii :lalitaa :devii> is stated as

the most wonderful one as there is none like that stated before. This

is a subjective praise.

 

 

Bibliography

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1) R. Ananthakrishna Sastry, ``Mantra Sastra Lalita Sahasranama with

Bhaskararaaya's Commentary Translated into English,'' Second Edition,

Published by the Author, 1925.

 

This book has no copyright information, however, material from this

book is not used verbatim. It is used only as a guide. It should be

noted that is book is very faithful and high quality translation of

<:saubhaagya :bhaaskara.>

 

2) <:saubhAgya :bhAskara> of <:shrii :bhaaskararaaya>

 

3) Lectures of Dr. R. KrishnamKrishmoorthy Sastrigal of Madras

Sanskrit College ( Please see

http://www.ambaa.org/audio/lalita1000/index.html)

 

4) <:shrii :lalitaa :trishatii shaaN^kara bhaashhyam.h>