lalitha sahasra namam introduction

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LALITHA SAHASRA NAMAM

  translated into english with transliteration

 

INTRODUCTION :-   Thia stotra {hymn which praises} occurs in brahmanda purana

{old epicof the unvierse} in the chapter on discussion between Hayagreeva  and

Agasthya.Hayagreeva is an incaration of Vishnu with the horse head and is

belived to be store of the knowledge.Agasthya is one of the great bear.At his

request Hayagreeva taught him the most holy names of lalitha .Parama shiva ia

one of the trinity of Hindhu pantheons who is in charge of destruction.He

married sathi, the daughter of Daksha.Daksha and Parama shiva were not getting

on well and consequently did not invite Paramashiva for one of the geat

scarifices that he conducted.How ever sathi went to atend the function inspite

of Parama shiva protest.Daksha insulted her husband and she jumped into the fire

and later given life and ended her life .Consequently at the behest of

paramashiva Daksha was killed and later given life with a goat head.How ever

this incident upset Parama shiva and he

entered into deep meditation .Sathi took birth as the daughter of the mountain

{parvathi} Himalayas and started doing penance on shiva for getting him as her

husband .The devas faced a very great enemy in sura padma who had an boon that

he could be killed only by the son of shiva and parvathi.So wake shiva from his

deep meditation the devas deputed Manmatha,The god of love who shot his flower

arrows at Paramashiva.Paramashiva woke up and opend his third eye and burnt the

god of love into ashes.The Devas and Rathi devi the wife of Manmatha requested

Paramashiva to give life to Manmatha.Heesing for their request Paramashiva

stared at the ashes of Mnmatha.From the ashes came Bhandasura who made all the

world as impotent and ruled from the city called Shonitha pura.He started

troubling the devas. The devas then sought the advice of Sage Narada who adviced

them to conduct a fire sacrifice.From the fire rose

SRI LALITHA TRIPURA SUNDARI

 

continued 2mrw..........

Regards

Bharathi.A