Saturday, February 22, 2020

Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 30: Shri Kamesa Baddha Mangalya Sutra Sobhita Kandhara (OM kAmeshabaddhamA ~ NgalyasUtrashobhitakandharAyai namaH)


Thirumangalya Sutra (Thalli in Tamil) tied by Lord Kameswaran makes the Divine Mother’s neck more beautiful or attractive is the literal meaning of this Namam.

The Divine Mother is married to Lord Siva.

But She rose from yoga fire set up by the Devargal (Sages) seeking her help against Pandasuran’s evil deeds. The Devargal wondered as to whom She was to be married before She would be made an Empress. Of all the suitors at that point, Lord Siva in Kameswaraan form was best suited to Her. At a bridegroom selection ceremony, She threw in the air a wedding garland which fell on Kameswaran’s neck as husband chosen.

Earlier this Kameswaran (Lord Siva) had completely destroyed the Kaman (Manmathan), the Lord of desire or love. Now on the Divine Mother’s wishes, the Lord Siva gave life back to Kaman or Manmathan and to become a friend to him. For Manmathan, Lord Siva was the lord or Eswaran or who saved him. So Lord Siva got another name as Kameswaran. With the life given to Manmathan by Lord Siva, the wife of Manmathan, the Rathi, also got a new marriage and a new Mangalya Sutra.

In Soundariya Lahari, The Sage Adi Sankarar mentioned that the three strands of the Divine Mother’s marriage thread (Mangalya Sutra) tied by Kameswaran  were visible even during the Adi Sankarar’s times(and even as of now) as three folds in the Divine Mother’s neck.

The Divine Mother’s wonderful marriage to Lord Kameswaran is detailed in Lathitopakhyana. This is a great narrative of Lalitha. This is part of the Brahmanada Purana (found in fourth section there in) written as a dialogue between Hayagreevar (an avatar of MahaVishnu) and Sage Agatsya.

Upakhyana means a narrative or story.

The Lalitha Sahasranama verges belong to Uttarakhanda (later part) of Brahmanda Purana. According to S K Ramachandra Rao, a well educated person in Shri Lalitha Sahasranama verges, these verges appear in chapter 41, 42. 43 and 44 in Brahmanda Purana. There are supposedly 320 verges in total.


C N Nachiappun

Singapore, 23 February 2020.

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