Transmission
01Lalitopākhyāna tradition
Colophons associate the hymn with the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa’s Uttarakhaṇḍa, though its placement is not uniform across recensions.
श्री ललितासहस्रनाम
Śrī Lalitāsahasranāma
Read the opening names as precise Sanskrit compounds, then follow the hymn’s own sacred chain of transmission—from the Vāgdevīs to Lalitā’s court, and from Hayagrīva to Agastya.
श्री
On-site scope
Names 1–12
Sanskrit · Devanagari + IAST
Śrīvidyā hymn · one thousand names
01 / Authenticity ledger
Source disclosed. Language named. Attribution qualified. Editorial choices made visible. It does not mean that one modern web page has erased every living recension or interpretive tradition.
Transmission
01Colophons associate the hymn with the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa’s Uttarakhaṇḍa, though its placement is not uniform across recensions.
Sacred attribution
02The narrative says Lalitā commissioned the Vāgdevīs to compose and proclaim her names in the divine court.
Teaching frame
03This is the text’s narrative chain of transmission, not evidence for a historically identifiable human author.
Reader standard
04Long names remain intact while their component words and close lexical senses are opened below.
02 / Word & compound reader
Guided opening edition
This on-site study reader covers names 1–12 in compound-level detail. The complete text is linked below; recension placement and name numbering are stated rather than silently harmonized.
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श्रीमाता
śrīmātā
Close meaning
The auspicious Mother.
Word & compound study
auspicious; radiant; revered
mother
श्रीमहाराज्ञी
śrīmahārājñī
Close meaning
The auspicious supreme Empress.
Word & compound study
auspicious; radiant; revered
great; supreme
queen; empress
श्रीमत्सिंहासनेश्वरी
śrīmat-siṃhāsaneśvarī
Close meaning
Sovereign of the resplendent throne.
Word & compound study
resplendent; glorious
throne
sovereign; ruling goddess
चिदग्निकुण्डसम्भूता
cid-agni-kuṇḍa-sambhūtā
Close meaning
Manifest from the fire-pit of consciousness.
Word & compound study
consciousness
fire
sacred fire-pit
arisen; manifested
देवकार्यसमुद्यता
deva-kārya-samudyatā
Close meaning
Arisen to accomplish the divine purpose.
Word & compound study
divine; of the deities
purpose; task
risen; set in action
उद्यद्भानुसहस्राभा
udyad-bhānu-sahasrābhā
Close meaning
Radiant like a thousand rising suns.
Word & compound study
rising
sun
thousand
radiance; lustre
चतुर्बाहुसमन्विता
catur-bāhu-samanvitā
Close meaning
Endowed with four arms.
Word & compound study
four
arms
endowed with; accompanied by
रागस्वरूपपाशाढ्या
rāga-svarūpa-pāśāḍhyā
Close meaning
Richly bearing the noose whose nature is loving attraction.
Word & compound study
love; attraction; colour
essential form; nature
noose; bond
richly endowed with
क्रोधाकाराङ्कुशोज्ज्वला
krodhākārāṅkuśojjvalā
Close meaning
Radiant with the goad whose form is corrective force.
Word & compound study
having the form of force or anger
elephant goad; instrument of direction
radiant; blazing
मनोरूपेक्षुकोदण्डा
mano-rūpekṣu-kodaṇḍā
Close meaning
Whose sugarcane bow takes the form of the mind.
Word & compound study
mind
form
sugarcane
bow
पञ्चतन्मात्रसायका
pañca-tanmātra-sāyakā
Close meaning
Whose arrows are the five subtle sensory principles.
Word & compound study
five
subtle sensory principle
arrows
निजारुणप्रभापूरमज्जद्ब्रह्माण्डमण्डला
nijāruṇa-prabhā-pūra-majjad-brahmāṇḍa-maṇḍalā
Close meaning
Whose own crimson radiance immerses the sphere of the cosmos.
Word & compound study
her own
crimson; dawn-red
radiance
flood; fullness
immersing; submerging
cosmos
sphere; total domain
lalita sahasranama · editorial study edition
03 / Attribution & biography
A sacred text can have a poet, a speaker inside its story, a traditional compiler, and later commentators. These roles are named separately so reverence never requires blurred history.
Composers in the sacred narrative
The hymn’s own frame says Lalitā commands the goddesses of speech, led by Vaśinī, to compose her thousand names. They recite them in her court so devotees may praise her. This is the liturgy’s sacred account of origin; the historical individual or community that formed the text remains unknown.
Teacher in the frame narrative
Hayagrīva—the horse-headed form of Viṣṇu associated with knowledge—reveals the secret hymn to the sage Agastya in the Lalitopākhyāna transmission. The dialogue situates the text within a teacher–disciple lineage.
Influential early-modern commentator
early 18th century
Bhāskararāya was a major Śākta theologian and polymath from Maharashtra who worked extensively in southern India. His Saubhāgyabhāskara became one of the most influential commentaries on the Lalitāsahasranāma, bringing Śrīvidyā Tantra into conversation with Vedic learning, Mīmāṃsā, grammar, and devotion. He was a commentator, not the hymn’s author.
04 / Editorial method
The unbroken transmitted name is retained before editorial compound splitting, because grammatical analysis and liturgical counting serve different purposes.
IAST marks long vowels, retroflex consonants, sibilants, and anusvāra consistently; pronunciation still benefits from lineage-based instruction.
The glosses give close lexical orientation. Symbolic and tantric readings are not presented as a single universal translation.
The page says ‘transmitted with the Lalitopākhyāna tradition’ because the hymn’s placement and numbering are not uniform in all Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa recensions.
05 / Source shelf
Primary texts, manuscript records, and scholarly studies are linked directly. External texts remain with their custodians and under their stated terms.