All over North India you get photographs, calendars and Yantras with this Mantra inscribed. During my travels all over India, I have found that this is the best-known mantra.

This mantra is also known as Navakshari or Chandi Navakshari as it contains nine syllables. Serial Eeprom Programmer 93c56 on this page. In all the Devi Mahaatmyam books the mantra 'Nava Avarna Mantra' is given and the procedure for reciting the Mantra. Neither the Vedas nor the epics Mahabharata and Ramayana refer to MAA by this name. In light of this primacy of this designation of the Goddess, it is striking that the word Chandika hasvirtually no earlier history in Sanskrit. Chandika is a derivative from the adjective Chandi- 'fierce, passionate'.This epithet is applied to the Goddess a total of twenty-nine times (maximum for any epithet) in the Devi Mahatmyam.Īgain this epithetis not used in the first Charithra dealing with Madhu Kaitabha. Petersburg dictionary as 'the violent and impetuous one'. Chandi or Chandika has been defined by the St. MAA CHANDI is the central figure in the epic.

Facets of the bible of the Sakthas.ĭevi Mahatmyam is also called Durga Sapthasathi. I will be posting on Devi Mahatmyam on all the nine days. The following post was written 10 years back. On this occasion, I thought I should post on Devi Mahatmyam. If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please,! By joining our Free Brahmin Community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features.

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