tripura sundari
त्रिपुरसुन्दरी tripurasundarīThe Beautiful Goddess of the Three Cities, also called Lalita or Rajarajeshvari; the supreme deity of the Sri Vidya tradition, worshipped through the Sri Yantra and the Lalita Sahasranama. She is counted among the ten Mahavidyas.
Where this term appears
- The Shatkarma: The Six Acts of Tantric Magic Lineages
The gentler poles of attraction and beauty belong to a goddess like Tripura Sundari, though she is above all a deity of liberation and should never be reduced to a love-charm.
- Bhairavi: The Fire Within Creation Treatise
The fierce twin of beauty The tradition pairs her, deliberately and beautifully, with Tripura Sundari.
- Bhuvaneshvari: She Whose Body Is the World Treatise
After Kali who is time, Tara who ferries across, and Tripura Sundari throned above the gods, the fourth Mahavidya makes the gentlest and in some ways the most radical claim of all.
- Dhumavati: The Widow Made of Smoke Treatise
Kali is terrible but magnificent; Tara saves; Tripura Sundari is beauty itself; even Chhinnamasta, drinking her own blood, blazes.
- Matangi: The Goddess of the Margins Treatise
In her Saraswati-mode she plays a jewelled vina and is sweet of speech; in the Sri Vidya configuration she carries a noose, a goad, and the sugarcane bow and flower-arrows she shares with Tripura Sundari.
- Ten Faces of the One Treatise
… , the black one, time and death; Tara , the star who ferries across; Tripura Sundari , the beautiful one of the three cities, also called Shodashi; Bhuvaneshvari , mistress of the worlds; Bhairavi , the fierce…
- The Garland: Why the Ten Are One Treatise
The Srikula, the family of Sri, says the white light is Tripura Sundari and the others are hers.
- Tripura Sundari: The Beauty of the Three Cities Treatise
She is Tripura Sundari , the Beautiful One of the Three Cities, and where the Kalikula makes Kali the root of the ten, the Srikula, the family of Sri, makes her the supreme, the head of all the rest.