But in most of the places there are three Murthis or Pindas representing MAHAA KALI, MAHAA LAKSHMI, and MAHAA SARASWATHI. All over North India you get photographs, calendars and Yantras with this Mantra inscribed. During my travels all over India, I have found that this is the best-known mantra. This mantra is also known as Navakshari or Chandi Navakshari as it contains nine syllables. In all the Devi Mahaatmyam books the mantra 'Nava Avarna Mantra' is given and the procedure for reciting the Mantra. Neither the Vedas nor the epics Mahabharata and Ramayana refer to MAA by this name. In light of this primacy of this designation of the Goddess, it is striking that the word Chandika hasvirtually no earlier history in Sanskrit. Again this epithetis not used in the first Charithra dealing with Madhu Kaitabha. Chandika is a derivative from the adjective Chandi- 'fierce, passionate'.This epithet is applied to the Goddess a total of twenty-nine times (maximum for any epithet) in the Devi Mahatmyam. Petersburg dictionary as 'the violent and impetuous one'. MAA CHANDI is the central figure in the epic.Ĭhandi or Chandika has been defined by the St. Devi Mahatmyam is also called Durga Sapthasathi. I will be posting on Devi Mahatmyam on all the nine days.įacets of the bible of the Sakthas. The following post was written 10 years back. On this occasion, I thought I should post on Devi Mahatmyam.
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You (the Supreme Knowledge) are cultivated by sages desiring liberation, whose senses are well restrained, who are devoted to Reality, and have shed all the blemishes. 9 O Devi, You are Bhagavati, the Supreme Vidya which is the cause of liberation and great inconceivable penances.
Devi Mahatmyam Durga Saptasati Chapter 1 in Tamil Devi Mahatmyam Durga Saptasati Chapter 1 – Tamil Lyrics (Text).