Guest guest Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 1. She Who is worthy to be pleased with the Soma sacrifice. 2. Saumya-Soma = Siva with Uma; these are the two limbs of the Goddess. Hence She is called Saumya. 3. She is pleasant like the Moon or like camphor. - Dr. L. M. Joshi, Lalita Sahasranama: A Comprehensive Study of the One Thousand Names of Lalita Maha-Tripurasundari (1998) [Compare Dr. CSM, who reads the name as somyA:] 1. She resides in the Moon's disc; cp. name 240/chandra-mandala-madhyaga, She who resides in the center of the lunar orb. 2. She is in the nature of SomalatA [the herb shilajit, or ephedra] or SomayAgna [soma sacrifice]. 3. She is beneficent (when the name is read as saumyA]. - Dr. C. Suryanarayana Murthy, Commentary on the Sri Lalita Sahasranama, 1962 , "NMadasamy" <ashwini_puralasamy wrote: > > > saumyA : Benign > > saumyA she is fit to be adored in the Soma sacrifice. > > Or sa, accompanied, UmA with Devi, ie Siva; saumyA, Siva is but a > part of her. > > or Soma, moon, also camphor, saumyA, pleasing like the moon or like > camphor. > > > > BhAskararAya's Commentary > Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry. > > Lalitha Sahasranama with commentaries now in SS homepage. See link > http://shaktisadhana.50megs.com/Newhomepage/sadhana/Commentaries.html > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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