Sunday, October 24, 2010

Lalita Sahasranama # 391

Nityasodasikarupa

1) sodsaiva sodasikah, nityasca tah sodasikasca (kamesvaryaaditripurantah), tasam-rupani yasyah sa
She, who is of sixteen external forms (of deities)

The sixteen deities are from Kamesvari to Tripura. The Tantraraja says that the sixteen deities are the limbs of Lalita

2) The word sodasika also means sodasi

3) Nityo (=vikalparahitah) a (samantat) sodasiko (=grahayaga abhyasa visesah) yesu (kratusu) taih asmantat rupyate (=priyate) sa
She is pleased by those sacrifices in which the graha sacrifice is performed.

According to this interpretation, the word Sodasika means a house where graha sacrifice is performed.

4) She is of the form of Sodasi-mantra

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