Gauri's Emblem the Sita's Lizard

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Namaste All,

I was mistaken about the Monitor Lizard . Gauri's emblem (not

vehicle) is described as a Sita's Lizard (Sitana ponticerinaor)and I

think the Hindu Gods and Goddesses Dictionary said the Chameleon was

her symbol.----Buvaneswar

 

 

Rajarajeshwari_Kalpataru , " buvaneswar3 "

<buvaneswar3 wrote:

>

> Namaste,

>

>

> My first experience with Godhika was a vision about a 2 years ago.

I

> wasn't doing any sort of sadhana. I awoke to find a huge lizard

> sitting on my body it was friendly and felt very positive and

seemed

> connected to Ambe Gauri who is my ishta devata.It disappeared and I

> thought no more about it until this year I came across a new book

> which is a Dictionary of Hindu Gods.The book was sold before I

could

> buy it or write the title down but it said Gauri's vehicle is a

> monitor lizard .I had always felt vehicle of Gauri was tiger, lion

or

> white bull as mahagauri is depicted sitting on white bull when a

> navadurga.As far as the internet the only references are that

godhika

> is vehicle of Gauri mentioned on names for hindu girls and also

> reference to Mangal Chandi's vehicle being Godhika.

> I speculate that it's probably specific to Bengali traditions that

> Gauri's vehicle is Godhika.Maybe someone with knowledge of Bengali

> traditions will know the annswer.Kalika purana supposedly mentions

> sacrifices of monitor lizard to Chandi Mangal and gives it as her

> vehicle I am told.

> Maybe if someone knows Bengali tradions on this site they may have

> the answer.

> (By the way my first exposure to Hinduism was 25 years ago thru

> Ramakrishna Mission (Bengali traditions) here in the USA .My

current

> Sri Vidya Guru is Sri Karunamayi in Bangalore. I converted to

> Hinduism 23 years ago .My grandparents were schoolteachers and

> missionaries (Americans )in India and my mother who was born in

> Poona then left India at the age of 20 after the partition of India

> and Pakistan .In 20 years they were unsuccessful in converting

even

> one Indian to Christianity. Needless to say my mother was

horrified

> when I became a Buddhist at 17 then a Hindu at 23 years of

> age and then a professional astrologer.She eventually accepted it.I

> am now 47 years of age.Karma has a strange way of working out in

> families although I have heard it is relatively common for

Christian

> missionaries in India to have children and grandchildren to convert

> to Hinduism)--Buvaneswar

>

>

>

>

>

> Rajarajeshwari_Kalpataru , " para_anuloma "

> <para_anuloma@> wrote:

> >

> > Dear Buvaneswarji,

> >

> > If you are refrring to images where 'Gauri' is shown sitting on

> > a 'Monitor Lizard that lives in water' with Shiva in the picture,

> then

> > it probably refers to Ganga Devi whose vahana is the Ganges

Gharial

> > (which is a slim version of a crocodile, hence the appearance of

> > a 'Monitor Lizard that lives in water').

> >

> > The vehicle of Gauri is Lion as far as my knowledge goes and in

> some

> > pcitures she is seen seated on a tiger.

> >

> > Please see some old postings of mine where I have dwelled in

lenght

> on

> > the subject of Vahanas of Devi.

> >

> > Yours yogically,

> >

> > Shreeram Balijepalli

> >

> > Rajarajeshwari_Kalpataru , " buvaneswar3 "

> > <buvaneswar3@> wrote:

> > >

> > > Dear Shreeram Balijepalli,

> > >

> > > Thank you very much for the info on Vijayasundari.

> > >

> > > I have another simple question.

> > >

> > > What is Gauri's vehicle? Is it a species of Land Monitor Lizard

> or

> > > Monitor Lizard that lives in water.

> > > I have always been curious about this------Buvaneswar

> > >

> >

>