Lalita Sahasranama
The 'thousand names of Lalita' from the Brahmanda Purana, the central litany of Srividya, each name a meditation on the Goddess and the Sri Chakra.
A quick reference entry. For the full account, follow the guides below.
Appears in
- Sri Vidya: The Sacred Knowing Treatise
A monk in 9th-century Kashmir writes a book that contains, for the first time on this planet in any written record, the construction instructions for the Sri Yantra…
- Who is the Goddess? Deities
Its great hymn, the Lalita Sahasranama, the thousand names of Lalita, drawn from the Brahmanda Purana, names her in name after name as the supreme reality, consciousness and bliss itself, the power coiled at th…
- Tripura Sundari: The Beauty of the Three Cities Treatise
The names that open the hymn Her great text of praise is the Lalita Sahasranama , the thousand names of Lalita, drawn from the Brahmanda Purana and carrying the towering eighteenth-century commentary of Bhaskar…
- The Body, Crown To Feet Treatise
The Lalita Sahasranama describes the Goddess from crown to feet across roughly fifty consecutive names, beginning at the fourth verse of the thousand.
- The Name Treatise
…lila , is read with some variation across the Sri Vidya lineages. The Lalita Sahasranama contains a thousand names.
- The Saubhagya-Kadi Line Treatise
The Lalita Sahasranama states that the goddess is surrounded by six hundred and forty million (saptakoti-mahamantras-attended) Yoginis.