Saundaryalaharī/ Ānandalaharī = सौन्दर्यलहरी//आनन्दलहरी // Verse 008

Here is a sample of what I am working on.

Veeraswamy Krishnaraj

exoticindia.com: BD68.jpg and HT86.jpg: Siva is the mattress and the gods are the legs of
the couch.

Tripura Sundari sits on a couch whose legs are Siva, Vishnu, Brahma and Rudra. In Tantra
literature, there are five Sivas: Sadasiva, Isa, Rudra, Vishnu, and Brahma; all of them are
described as Mahapreta ("Five Great corpses") because they are all inert without Sakti. Siva is
Sava (corpse, Sava Rupa); hence, Sakti Devi (TPS) is portrayed as standing on Sava-Siva. The
Five Great Corpses (pancha-maha-preta or Pancha Mahapreta) become inanimate objects upon
which Devi (Sodasi) sits, reclines, presides, and merges as Consciousness. Siva is the couch;
Sadasiva is the mattress; Isa is the pillow; Isa, Rudra, Hari (Vishnu), and Brahma are the four
legs of the couch. Tripurasundari/Sodasi reclines majestically on the couch. (This picture shows
that she is sitting on top of Siva on a couch whose legs are the four deities.) In another portrayal,
Devi is united with Paramasiva in the palace of Cintamani stone in the Jeweled island full of
Kadamba trees surrounded by ocean of Ambrosia. (A source says that there are seven Sivas:
Parasiva, Sambhu and the five Mahapretas.)
Kubjika Tantra states that the portfolios of creation, maintenance, and destruction are held by
Brahmi, Vaishnavi and Rudrani, and their husbands are dead bodies. In the West, man has the
power; in the India, woman (goddess) has the power; god is the wielder of power; god without
Sakti or power is dead for practical purposes.

Worship of Sakti in Sri Chakra

सुधाससन्धो-र्यध्र्े सुरसिटसि-िाटी-िररिृते
र्सिद्वीिे नीिोििनिसत सिन्तार्सि-गृहे |
सििकारे र्ञ्चे िरर्सिि- िररर्ङ्कसनलर्ाां
भजसन्त तिाां धन्र्ा: कसतिन सिदानन्द-लहरीर्् || [008]

sudhā sindhor madhye sura-viṭapi-vāṭī parivṛte

maṇid dvīpe nīpo upavana-vati cintāmaṇi gṛhe |

śivākāre mañce paramaśiva paryaṇka nilayām

bhajanti tvām dhanyāḥ katicana cid-ānanda laharīm || 008

सुधा ससन्धो-र्यध्र्े सुरसिटसि-िाटी िररिृते

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र्सिद्वीिे नीिोििनिसत सिन्तार्सि-गृहे |

5 6 7

सििकारे र्ञ्चे िरर् सिि िररर्ङ्क सनलर्ाां

8 9 10

भजन्ति त्वां धतयव: कतिचन तचदवनतद-ऱहरीम् || [008]

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धतयव: कतिचन = dhanyāḥ katicana = a few glorious ones; भजन्ति त्वां =

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bhajanti tvāṃ = worship You; तचि् आनतद ऱहरीम् 13 = cit-ānanda-laharīm = the wave of

knowledge-bliss (Spiritual knowledge-bliss-waves); ऩरम शि् ऩररयङ्क तनऱयवां 10 =

parama śiva paryaṅka nilayām = abiding on the mattress [which is] Supreme Siva

(Supreme-Siva-mattress-abode); [placed on ] मञ्चे 9 = mañce = couch; [which is also]

शि्कवरे = शि् आकारे = śivākāre = śiva ākāre = Siva in appearance; [abiding in a]

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तचतिवमशि गृ हे = cintāmaṇi gṛhe = [wish-yielding] gem house; ऩरर्ृ िे = parivṛte =
7 4

surrounded; नीऩव उऩ्न्ति6 = nīpa upavanavati = grove of Nipa trees; मशि-द्वीऩे 5 = maṇi-

dvīpe = in an island of gems; तितधो-मध्ये

म 2 = sindhor madhye = in the midst of the ocean;

[of] िु धव1 = sudhā = nectar; [lined by] िु र त्टतऩ ्वटी3 = sura viṭapi vāṭī = divine grove of

trees; ||008||

A few glorious ones worship You, the wave of Knowledge-Bliss as abiding (sitting) on the

mattress that is Supreme Siva placed on a couch which is also Siva in appearance, abiding in

the gem house surrounded by a grove of Nipa trees in Mani Dvipa (Island of gems) in the midst

of Ocean of Nectar lined by celestial Kalpaka trees. 008. Veraswamy Krishnaraj

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