Lalita Sahasranama
Bharat Bhusan · Chaukhamba Sanskrit Pratishthan
Foreword Just as Veda Vyasa has placed the Bhagavad Gita which is the quintessence of the Upanishads in the heart of the Mahabharata,. he has placed the Lalita Sahasranama which is the quintessence of the Mantra Shastra in the heart of the Brahmanda Purana. It occupies the same important place and enjoys the same popularity in the field of Sri Vidya as does the Bhagavad Gita in the field of Brahma Yidya or Vedanta. Of all the Bhashyas or commentaries that have helped to popularise it, the one written by Bhasurananda Natha, more familiarly known as Bhaskara Roya is the one most widely known. The other Bhashyas, not yet available in print, are said to be by Vidyaranya Muniswara, Vitnarsanandanatha and Bhattanarayana. Bhaskara Raya lived from 1690 to 1785 A. D. Among his .works, the Saubhagya Bhaskara (Lalita Sahasranama Bhashya) Varivasya Rahasya (a treatise on Panchadashakshari and Setu Bandha (a commentary on Nitya Shodasikarnava) constitute, as it were, the Prasthana Traya of Sri Vidya. Bhaskara Roya was born in Maharastra. He migrated to Tanjore, won the esteem of the rulers of the place and settled down at a place near Tiruvalangadu on the banks of the Cauvery, where lived his Guru, Gangadhara Vajapeyi. This is the place now known as Bhaskararajapuram. Originally, Bhagavan Hayagriva gave this Sahasranama to Maharshi Agastya after teaching him the mode of worship of Lalita Parameshwari through Antar-Yaga, Bahir-Yaga .and Maha-Yaga and after giving him the Sahasranamas of Mantrini and Dandini. He says that as Sri Chakra is the most important of the Yantras, and Lalita is the most important of the Divine Mothers forms, this, one is the most important of the Sahasranamas. In other Sahasranamas, we find the use of particles such as EVA, GHA etc, and the repetition of a name twice, thrice or four times, but here there are no such faults.
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