rajashyamalasahasranaman

[Guest guest]

> that matangi and Rajashyamala refers to same deity.

 

They are the same but yet different in a way. I could be wrong here

but in the mAta~NgI sahasranAma, I dont recall seeing the specific

names sachiveshI, mantriNI or those names which stress the relation of

rAjashyAmalA as the prime minister of tripura sundarI.

 

namaste

[Guest guest]

> > that matangi and Rajashyamala refers to same deity.

 

Again rAjashyAmalA is same as rAjamAta~NgI

Some specific points in the visualisation of rAjashyAmalA are that

She/It is Refined, Royal, Lordly, and teeming with outright Arrogance

(in a positive way) or sort of Haughty.

[Guest guest]

> > > that matangi and Rajashyamala refers to same deity.

 

I agree that they are the same Devata but have a difference in their

context. Shyamala or Mantrini is in the context of Shrikula as a

primeminister of Tripurasundari as Rajarajeshvari. The Lalitopakhyana

places her in the retinue of Tripura as the minister along with Varahi

who is the commander and they kill demons Vishukra and Vishanga (who

kills who may be interchanged).

 

But Matangi is a part of the 10 Devatas of Dashamahavidya series. Here

she shows no specific association with Tripurasundari who is one of

the other 10 Devatas in this series.

 

This is similar to how in the Hadividya Krama Bagalamukhi and Tara

(who is also in Sadividya) come as devatas associated with

Tripurasundari but occur as independent Devatas of the Dashamahavidya

series.

 

Laghumatangi occurs completely independently as Sumukhi. But the

identity of these is established because the same Geyachakra is used

in the archana of all of them.

 

This said the Shankaracharya Girvanendra in his Mantrashastra Granth

associates Rajamatangi and Laghumatangi generally with Shrividya so

they may cross between the two contexts

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