Saundarya Lahari
'Waves of Beauty,' a hymn of one hundred verses to the Goddess attributed to Shankara, prized both as devotion and as an encoded manual of Srividya.
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
Devi, the Goddess, is in the Shakta tradition the supreme reality and the active power (shakti) that animates the cosmos. The earliest extended statement is the…
- The Girl at the Library Door Treatise
He composed devotional hymns - the Bhaja Govindam , the Kanakadhara Stotram , and, in the field directly relevant to Sri Vidya, the Saundarya Lahari .
- The Body, Crown To Feet Treatise
The Saundarya Lahari ’s second half does the same thing in extended verse, across fifty-nine verses from verse 42 through verse 100, walking the body in the same direction in the same order.
- Kameshvara - And The Four Acharas Treatise
It is the first verse of the Saundarya Lahari : Shivah shaktya yukto yadi bhavati shaktah prabhavitum Na chedevam devo na khalu kushalah spanditumapi - Shiva, united with Shakti, is able to manifest.
- The Samaya Tradition Treatise
The text he was writing was a commentary on the Saundarya Lahari — the hundred-verse Waves of Beauty , the most famous Sri Vidya devotional poem in the tradition, attributed to Adi Shankara himself.
- The 64 Śākta Tantras Lineages
The 64 Śākta Tantras are the Goddess-centred tantric scriptures, named in a famous verse of the Saundaryalaharī. The number 64 is a traditional and symbolic…