Goddess Lalita

श्रीषोडशी त्रिपुरसुन्दरी ध्यानम्

(Sri Shodashi Tripurasundari Dhyanam)

Also known as shri shodashi tripurasundari dhyanam · shree shodashi tripurasundari dhyanam · shodashi tripurasundari dhyanam

Three meditation verses and nothing else — no viniyoga, no litany, no promise of fruit — which is what a dhyanam is for. The first is the short and familiar one: shining like the disc of the young sun, four-armed, three-eyed, holding noose, goad, arrows and bow. The last is longer and fills in what the short one leaves out — the splendour of ten thousand young suns, red garments, a body bright with every kind of ornament, the crescent worn as a crest, and again the sugarcane bow, the goad, the flower-arrow and the noose held always in her hands. It ends by placing her where the Shrividya places her, seated in the Shrichakra and the support of the three worlds.

Read In:

Script: Devanagari (देवनागरी) — also the script of Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and Konkani.

॥ श्रीषोडशी त्रिपुरसुन्दरी ध्यानम् ॥
बालार्कमण्डलाभासां चतुर्बाहां त्रिलोचनाम् ।
पाशाङ्कुशशरांश्चापं धारयन्तीं शिवां भजे ॥
बालार्कायुततेजसं त्रिनयनां रक्ताम्बरोल्लासिनीम् ।
नानालङ्कृतिराजमानवपुषं बालोडुराट्शेखराम् ॥
हस्तैरिक्षुधनुः सृणिं सुमशरं पाशं सदा बिभ्रतीम् ।
श्रीचक्रस्थितसुन्दरीं त्रिजगतामाधारभूतां भजे ॥
॥ इति श्रीषोडशी त्रिपुरसुन्दरी ध्यानम् ॥

Explore More