BhavAnI nAma Sahasra Stutih : 881, 882 & 883

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[881] KhatvAngadhArinI : Holder of Siva's [weapon] khatvAnga.

KhatvAnga is a club or staff with a skull at the top, considered to

be the weapon of Siva. It is also carried by ascetics and yogis.

 

The Goddess being of same piety, also carries KhatvAnga for the

delight of Her Lord. Hence the name. The weapon symbolises the power

of protection and grace.

 

 

[882] KhatvA : Goddess as the hammock of Lord Siva.

When Lord Siva feels tired He sleeps on the hanging bed formed out

of His own Sakti, the goddess KhatvA in the cemetry. That gives Him

the names SmsAnavAsin [the dweller of cemetery] and SmsAnavesman

[whose abode is cemetery]. Siva is in repose with his Sakti in the

cemetery and is benefactor of auspiciousness.

 

SmsAna means a burial or burning grouond for the dead. In spiritual

world the word connotes 'the absence of imagination'. It is the

supreme state of consciousness where the impressions unconsciously

left on the mind by past good or bad actions [which therfore

produces pleasure or pain] are totally eradicated. That is the pure

and transcendent state of Sivahoos, in which Sakti is inseparable.

 

This is the most auspicious act of the goddess KhatvA.

 

 

[883] BAnapunkhAnuvartinI : Who follows the feathered point arrow of

Siva.

The Goddess is the power of arrow of Lord Siva, who singly burnt the

Tripuram of the demon TArakAsura. PArvati also is called TripurA,

because she is the power in the arrows of Siva to destroy the demon

of the three cities in no time.

 

In yogic parlance this connotes that cit sakti is the sovereign

power pervading the three states of macrocosm as well as microcosm.

She is time that measures all events appearing in post, present and

future. She is Turya, the all pervading awareness of self, the

fourth. She is TripurA, the controller of the trichotomic nature of

the universe.

 

 

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