Doubt about aShTamI chandra vibhrAja daLikasthala SobhitA

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Ram:

 

This nAma does not talk about the chandra kalA in SrimAtA's crown.

This name describes forehead (lalATa area). This nAmA describes that

it lustrous like the bright aShTami (8th) kala of moon. Why this

particular kala, because, it is shaped like the forehead region. Also

8th looks brighter in comparison with the darkness of the other half.

 

The name that talks about the chandra kala in her crown does not talk

about the exact tithi it is compared to. That name is

chAru-chandra-kalAdharA. Here is chAru means beautiful.

 

The crescent on the crown is often associated with the shape of moon

on Sukla paxa trItiyA (see paramAcharya's commentary on 42nd verse of

saundaryalaharI). In that verse we notice that ambA is not only

chandraSekharI, she is also sUryaSekharI. And there the shape of the

crescent moon is compared to indra dhanus. Sri AchArya takes up this

matter in even greater detail in the commentary on the verse "lalATam

lAvaNyam ...". There he clearly states that "ambA and ISvara carry the

crescent moon of tritIyA or the third day (of the bright fortnight)

and not the aShtamI chandra" (page 399) and then he goes on to explain

why that verse likens even the crescent to half moon.

 

 

My 2c.

 

Ravi

[book quoted is published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan]

 

 

, Ram S Iyer <ramsiyer@t...> wrote:

> Dear Sri Lalithas:

>

> Can anyone clarify on this: we call sri lalitha as "Om ashtami chandra

> vibhrajadalika sthala sobhithayai Namah" and in the pictures of Sree

> Lalitha, why the moon is not shown as ashtami chandran?

>

> Pranams

>

> Ram S Iyer, Malaysia