Lalitā Sahasranāmam 13–18
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 05/03/2020

This series is classified Vivartha-vāda | Rāja-yoga | Suśupti | Viśuddhi-cakra
13. Campakāśoka-punnāga-saugandhika-lasat-kacā चम्पकाशोक-पुन्नाग-सौगन्धिक-लसत्-कचा 
Campaka, aśoka, punnāga and saugandhika are the four types of fragrant flowers that adorn Her hair. But Her hair does not get fragrance because of these flowers; the flowers get their fragrance from Her hair. Her hair is always sweetly aromatic.   

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Saundarya-Laharī 43 says, “Your dense, well-oiled and soft braids of hair, resembling a group of blue lotuses in bloom, dispel our ignorance. I think the flowers of the trees in the garden of the foe of Vala abide therein to attain their innate fragrance.” Wetness indicates Her compassion and softness indicates Her motherhood. Durvāsa Ṛṣi in his Śakti Mahimna meditates on Her sweet-smelling hair in his heart cakra. 
The idea behind these descriptions is since knowledge is considered as supreme in realizing Brahman, when Her hair can drive away ignorance, then what can Her total form do for Her devotees? These four sweet-smelling flowers mean the four deceptive components of antaḥkaraṇa: mind, intellect, consciousness and ego. 

14. Kuruvinda-maṇiśreṇī-kanat-koṭīra-maṇḍitā कुरुविन्द-मणिश्रेणी-कनत्-कोटीर-मण्डिता 
Kuruvinda is a rare type of ruby that is said to enhance love, wealth and devotion for Viṣṇu (Viṣṇu is Her brother). These rubies adorn Her crown.  When She is meditated upon with this red crown, spirituality and prosperity will increase. Saundarya-Laharī 42 says, “Why will not he who extols your golden crown, closely studded with the twelve Suns (dvādasa ādityas: twelve ādityas, each āditya representing one solar month) transformed into gems, form the idea that the digit of the (crescent) Moon, variegated by the enveloping luster of the inlaid gems, is but the bow of Indra (rainbow)?” Śrī Śakti Mahimna 42 also describes Her crown. 

15. Aṣṭamī-candra-vibrāja-dhalika-sthala-śobhitā अष्टमी-चन्द्र-विब्राज-धलिक-स्थल-शोभिता 
Her forehead appears like the moon on the eighth day. The eighth day from the full moon or new moon is called aṣṭamī. The moon appears beautiful, exactly half-full on the eighth lunar day. 

16. Mukacandra-kalaṇkābha-mṛganābhi-viśeṣakā मुकचन्द्र-कलण्काभ-मृगनाभि -विशेषका 
She is wearing a tilaka (a mark on the forehead made with colored earths, sandalwood or unguents, either as ornament or as a sectarian distinction) of kastūrikā (a fragrant paste) and this is compared to the spot that we see in the moon. Her face is meditated upon in Śrī Śakti Mahimna 39.

17. Vadanasmara-māṅgalya-gṛhatoraṇa-cillikā वदनस्मर-माङ्गल्य-गृहतोरण-चिल्लिका 
Her face is compared to the palace of Lord Manmatha (Cupid, the god of love) and Her eyebrows are compared to the festoons adorning his house. Cillikā means eyebrows. It is said that Manmatha constructed an auspicious palace, copying the face of Lalitāmbikā. 

18. Vāktra-lakṣmī-parīvāha-calan-mīnābha-locanā वक्त्र-लक्ष्मी-परीवाह-चलन्-मीनाभ-लोचना 
Her eyes appear like fishes moving in a pond. Her face is compared to a pond and Her eyes to fishes. Fishes move very quickly with agility. She also moves Her eyes quickly as She has to shower Her grace on the entire universe. The fish eggs become fertile by mere glance of mother fish. In the same manner She nourishes the universe by Her mere glance. Because of the beauty of Her eyes She is also known as Mīnākṣī, Mīnalocanī, etc.

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