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INTRODUCTION
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no way suffer by her marriage Then the goddess
consented and threw up a garland It fell round the
neck of Siva who had assumed the lovely form of
Kamesvara The marriage of the beautiful couple was
celebrated by the gods with great pomp and Lalita
became Kamesvars and was crowned along with her
husband. After the gods had left, the goddess set out
to fulfil her mission with an army of Saktis well
equipped with chariots, elephants and horses. The
battle between her and the demon raged for four days
and at last Bhanda was kille I with all his kinsmen and
followers, and his capital was razed to the ground
The gods praised the goddess and requested her to take
pity on Rati, the wife of Manmatha, who had been burnt
to death by Siva She consented and revived the god of
love and then went and settled down at Srinagara
This city was built for her by both Visi karma and
Maya on one of the peaks of Mount Meru An
elaborate description of it is given in the Purana. In
the midst of this wonderful city is a palace built of
precious chintamani stones and in the centre of the
palace is the seat of the Devi. On a jewelled cot, the
legs of which are formed by Brahma, Visnu, Isvara
and Maheśvara and the covetlet by Sadasiva, the great
goddess Sri Lalita Devi sits in the lap of her husband,
Kamesvara The Stichakra is, besides other things,
diagrammatic representation of the goddess and her
capital Sripura Devotees of the goddess are thereforc
exhorted to worship the Srichakra, perform japam
with the Panchadasaksarı mantra which forms the subtle
body of the Devi and repeat this litany of a thousand
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no way suffer by her marriage Then the goddess
consented and threw up a garland It fell round the
neck of Siva who had assumed the lovely form of
Kamesvara The marriage of the beautiful couple was
celebrated by the gods with great pomp and Lalita
became Kamesvars and was crowned along with her
husband. After the gods had left, the goddess set out
to fulfil her mission with an army of Saktis well
equipped with chariots, elephants and horses. The
battle between her and the demon raged for four days
and at last Bhanda was kille I with all his kinsmen and
followers, and his capital was razed to the ground
The gods praised the goddess and requested her to take
pity on Rati, the wife of Manmatha, who had been burnt
to death by Siva She consented and revived the god of
love and then went and settled down at Srinagara
This city was built for her by both Visi karma and
Maya on one of the peaks of Mount Meru An
elaborate description of it is given in the Purana. In
the midst of this wonderful city is a palace built of
precious chintamani stones and in the centre of the
palace is the seat of the Devi. On a jewelled cot, the
legs of which are formed by Brahma, Visnu, Isvara
and Maheśvara and the covetlet by Sadasiva, the great
goddess Sri Lalita Devi sits in the lap of her husband,
Kamesvara The Stichakra is, besides other things,
diagrammatic representation of the goddess and her
capital Sripura Devotees of the goddess are thereforc
exhorted to worship the Srichakra, perform japam
with the Panchadasaksarı mantra which forms the subtle
body of the Devi and repeat this litany of a thousand