Soundarya Lahiri and Lalita Sahasranama

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I read this article on soundarya lahiri and

lalita sahasranama which i would like to share.<br><br>A

close and comparative study of both the works,

Lalitasahasra-nama of Brahmanda Purana and Soundarya Lahiri reveal

that scores of names(like Mahamaya, Vijaya, etc) from

the former have been taken and incorporated into the

latter, several more(like Cintamani-griha, Rakenduvadana

etc.) with synonymous or similar meanings, and still

scores of other names(like Mata, Janani, Siva etc.) are

taken partly. Sometimes one is unaware as to which work

one is actually reading - lalita sahasranama or

soudarya lahiri. One often feels that there is laliyam in

Lalitasahasranama and Soundaryam in Soundarya Lahiri where Lalityam

and Soundaryam mean the same,

Beauty-par-excellence.<br><br>Actually the first sloka of Soundarya lahiri

starts thus -

Sivaa Sakyah yukto, with the last name

Siva-saktyaikya-rupini of the lalita sahasranama, as if the writing of

Soundarya Lahiri had started soon after the finishing the

reading of Lalita sahasranama.