Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 938: Shri Pragalbha (ōṃ pragalbhāyai namaḥ)

The Divine Mother is skillful and confident.

Pragalbha is a Sanskrit term with meanings bold, mature, confident, and wise.

She is highly confident. Humans, due to their mindset, will have differences among them. Due to that human either have varying low confidence levels. Each human will have a deeply rooted skill within him and to grow such a skill is the focus of his life. Confidence in his mind is a divine gift given to him.

Those with confidence achieve greater things in life. One’s confidence will make opposing enemies’ efforts useless. To grow such confidence in oneself is due to his worship and grace from the Divine Mother.

She is skillful and confident in doing things. In doing very many difficult tasks in creating the universe, She is displaying Her skills and confidence which the devotees must adopt for their own advancements.

The unerring ability to show the acts of creation, preservation and destruction of the universe is implied here in this Namam. She has marvelous daring skills in creating this universe.

The Divine Mother is skillful and confident.   

C N Nachiappan

Singapore, 19 August 2022; updated 19 October 2025.

References:

1.The Thousand Names of the Divine Mother published by Mata Amritanandam in California, USA, with Commentary by T. V Narayana Menon

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

3. The Lalitha Sahasranamam published in Tamil by Shri Ramakrishna Thapovanam, Thiruipparaithurai, Trichy District, Tamil Nadu, India with commentary by Shrimath Swami Sith-Bavandar.