Shri Lalitha Sahasranamam: Namam 969: Shri Suvesadhya (ōṃ suvēṣāḍhyāyai namaḥ)

The Divine Mother is very attractive wearing Her beautiful rich garments and ornaments.

She has auspicious alangarams. Beauty is the Divine Mother’s natural form. Everyone is attracted to Her beauty. The Divine Mother is showing up Her beauty in various places in the universe. There are many stages of beauty. Form, walking style, gestures, appearance, and action are all part of the Divine Mother’s beauty and grace. Her existing beauty can be enhanced without adding any extra material.

If a beautiful person wears a torn cloth, his/her beauty is brought down. Worthy clothes will improve the beauty of the person. To offer and dress up the Divine Mother ‘s alangara forms to increase Her beauty is the first step of devotion for the humans. For dressed up the Divine Mother’s forms adding ornaments will be appropriate. Some people have excessive ornaments on them to improve their beauty. Aesthetic taste is to have measured levels of ornaments. This Aesthetic taste ought to be well understood by the people.

For the Divine Mother in a temple as deity offering the flower malai is a divine aspect. Such flower malai ought to match the background forms of the Divine Mother, without letting the flowers die. Flower malai is good for beauty and happiness, and such malais ought to be fresh as ever.

Sandal paste and reddish Kumkum to be applied to the deities are other divine aspects. We ought to adopt the Aesthetic taste in applying such materials on the deities. With appropriate cultural aspect, such external materials are applied to the deity of the Divine Mother with artifice jnana. Using all devotional kala forms are good for the culture and devotion towards the Divine Mother.

She wears beautiful ornaments. For auspicious form of the Divine Mother, the clothes, ornaments bring out Her total auspiciousness; She is wearing them to give mental satisfaction of Her devotees.

The richness of attire is not for artificial glitter but for simplicity, purity, restraints, and decency. This Namam means that the Divine Mother is one who is proud and graceful in Her auspicious attire and ornaments.

The Divine Mother is very attractive wearing Her beautiful rich garments and ornaments.

C N Nachiappan

Singapore, 19 September 2022; updated 02 November 2025.

References:

1.     The Thousand Names of the Divine Mother published happiness by Mata Amritanandamis AparnaSan 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