Sunday, September 16, 2012

Soundarya Lahari - Part 230



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Goddess KAmeshvarI has herself the name ‘aruNA’. Recall Her dhyAna-shloka: ‘aruNAM karuNA-tarangitAkshhIM’. Here our Acharya is actually invoking the eight armed Goddess: with bow, arrow, noose and spear (that go with KAmeshvarI) in four of the hands and with varam, abhayam, aksha-mAlA and book (that go with Sarasvati) in the other four hands. 

This is the aruNa-Sarasvati with eight hands, talked about by our elders.

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