Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Soundarya Lahari - Part 232





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Thus there are eight vAg-devatAs for the 51 letters of the Sanskrit alphabet. The first of these is called ‘vashinI’. Therefore all the eight are called ‘vashinI’, etc. devatAs’ (vashinyAdi devatAH) or simply, ‘vashinI devatAs’. 

These are the ones who sang the Lalita-sahasranAma at the behest of ambaal Herself. In the seventh AvaraNa (always you count from outside) of the ShrI Chakra, there are eight triangles; that is where these eight devatAs are seated, surrounding ambaal.

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