Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 610: Shri Pratipan mukhya rakanta tithi mandala pujita (ōṃ pratipanmukhyarākāntatithimaṇḍalapūjitāyai namaḥ )

The Goddess Divine Mother is worshipped daily starting with Pratapa (the first day of the waxing lunar half-month from and ending with the full moon day, Raka). 

From the first day after new moon day or the first day of lunar half-month to fifteenth day, full moon day, the Divine Mother is celebrated and worshipped by the daily deities of these lunar phases. For the Divine Mother’s devotees all the tithis between these two days are sacred days for worshipping Her.  Counting the tithis aids in devotion to the Divine Mother. For humans to have a growing devotion to the Divine Mother these tithis play a role, and the Divine Mother is considered in those deities’ forms. This sequence of fifteen days prayers to the Divine Mother is ideally done in two of the twelve months, namely the Hindu calendar months of Chitra (mid-April to mid-May) and Aypasi (mid-October to mid-November). 

The Divine Mother is worshipped by the entire group of Nithya devatas (daily deities) starting with Kamesvari for the first day (Pratapa) and Chitra for the paurnami (full moon day) during the Moon’s waxing phase. Again, during Moon’s waning or decreasing period, these fifteen deities worshipped the Divine Mother. Also see earlier Nama 73, the following is the list of Nithya deities (which is different from that is given under earlier Namam 73: Nithya parakramatopa nirikshana samutsuka with the meaning “She is delighted in seeing the strength and courage of her Nithya deities.” The fifteen Nithya deities were sent by the Divine Mother to seek and destroy the Bhandasura’s fifteen commanders. 

The said list is as follows: Agni (Fire), Asvinikumaras, Gauri, Ganapati, Nagas, Sanmukha, Surya (Sun), the Siddhi Devis, Durga, Ten directional deities of ten directions, Kubera, Vishnu, Yama (God of death) Siva, Full moon day - Moon, and. Pitur devatas. 

Traditionally each thithi is associated with worship of different forms of Hindu Gods. These are as follows: This list of deities shown separately in Table below: 

Tithi	Deity
First	Agni (Fire)
Second	Achini Kumarer, two deities
Third	Gauri
Fourth	Ganapati
Fifth	Nagars
Sixth	Shanmuga
Seventh	Sun
Eighth	Siddhi Devis (Brahmi. Vishanai, Maheswari, Indrai, Kaumari, Varahi, Samuda, Narasimha.)
Ninth	Durga
Tenth	Ten directional deities of ten directions
Eleventh	Kuberan
Twelfth	Vishnu
Thirteenth	Yaman (God of death)
Fourteenth	Shiva
Fifteenth	Full moon day - Moon,
Amavasai	Pitur devatas

     The Daily deities to be worshipped to reach the Divine Mother.

C N Nachiappun

Singapore, 26 September 2021.

References:

1.      The Thousand Names of the Divine Mother published in English by Mata Amritanandamayi Center, San Ramon, California, USA, with Commentary by T. V Narayana Menon

2.      Shri Lalitha Sahasranama Stostram published in Tamil by N. Ramaswami Iyer charities’ societies, Trichirapalli, India, with Commentary by C. V. Radhakrishna Sastry.

3.      The Lalitha Sahasranamam published in Tamil by Shri Ramakrishna Thapovanam, Thiruipparaithurai, Trichy District, Tamilnadu, India with commentary by Shrimath Swami Sithbavandar