About the Lalitha Sahasranama
A thousand names of Goddess Lalitha, and not a single one is repeated. The eight Vaagdevis composed it, Hayagriva taught it to Agastya, and it's been at the heart of Sri Vidya practice ever since. What sets it apart from other sahasranamas is the precision. Every name maps to a specific aspect of the goddess, from her beauty to her cosmic power to the way she responds to devotion. People who chant it regularly say something shifts in them. It's long, it demands your attention, and that's exactly the point.
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Stotram
1
asya śrīlalitāsahasranāmastotramahāmantrasya vaśinyādivāgdevatā ṛṣayaḥ, anuṣṭup chandaḥ, śrīlalitāparameśvarī devatā, śrīmadvāgbhavakūṭeti bījaṃ, madhyakūṭeti śaktiḥ, śaktikūṭeti kīlakaṃ, mūlaprakṛtiriti dhyānam, mūlamantreṇāṅganyāsaṃ karanyāsaṃ ca kuryāt
mama śrīlalitāmahātripurasundarī prasādasiddhidvārā cintitaphalāvāptyarthe jape viniyogaḥ
ध्यानम्
2
-ttārānāyakaśekharāṃ smitamukhīmāpīnavakṣoruhām
pāṇibhyāmalipūrṇaratnacaṣakaṃ raktotpalaṃ bibhratīṃ
saumyāṃ ratnaghaṭastharaktacaraṇāṃ dhyāyetparāmambikām
3
aruṇāṃ karuṇātaraṅgitākṣīṃ
dhṛtapāśāṅkuśapuṣpabāṇacāpām
aṇimādibhirāvṛtāṃ mayūkhai-
-rahamityeva vibhāvaye bhavānīm
4
dhyāyetpadmāsanasthāṃ vikasitavadanāṃ padmapatrāyatākṣīṃ
hemābhāṃ pītavastrāṃ karakalitalasaddhemapadmāṃ varāṅgīm
sarvālaṅkārayuktāṃ satatamabhayadāṃ bhaktanamrāṃ bhavānīṃ
śrīvidyāṃ śāntamūrtiṃ sakalasuranutāṃ sarvasampatpradātrīm
5
sakuṅkumavilepanāmalikacumbikastūrikāṃ
samandahasitekṣaṇāṃ saśaracāpapāśāṅkuśām
aśeṣajanamohinīmaruṇamālyabhūṣāmbarāṃ
japākusumabhāsurāṃ japavidhau smaredambikām
Phalashruti
190
iti śrībrahmāṇḍapurāṇe uttarakhaṇḍe śrīhayagrīvāgastyasaṃvāde śrīlalitā rahasyanāmasāhasra stotrakathanaṃ nāma dvitīyo'dhyāyaḥ
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- Who composed Sri Lalitha Sahasranama?
- Sri Lalitha Sahasranama is traditionally attributed to Hayagriva (Brahmanda Purana).
- How many verses are in Sri Lalitha Sahasranama?
- Sri Lalitha Sahasranama has 190 verses, set in the Anushtup metre.
- Which deity is Sri Lalitha Sahasranama addressed to?
- Sri Lalitha Sahasranama is a prayer to Lalitha Devi.
- In which languages can I read Sri Lalitha Sahasranama?
- ChantWise offers Sri Lalitha Sahasranama in English, Sanskrit, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati — including English (IAST script) on this page.
Reading it in Roman letters
This is the Lalitha Sahasranama in Roman letters with diacritic marks, the system used to write Sanskrit sounds exactly. It is the thousand names of the Divine Mother, drawn from the Brahmanda Purana, where they describe Lalitha from the crown of her head to her feet, no name ever repeated, and they form the heart of Sri Vidya, the tradition of devotion to the Goddess. People chant them on Fridays and through Navaratri, the nine nights of the Goddess, for courage, for wellbeing, and for the protection of the family. She is adored across the south at Kanchipuram, Madurai and Kollur, and in Devi homes the world over. The diacritics do simple work: a line above a vowel holds it longer, and a dot beneath a letter marks the retroflex sounds made with the tongue curled back. Read exactly what is printed and the names come out as they would from Devanagari.