The first ten slokas of Sri Lalita Sahasra Nama Stotra describes the different parts of the Her person from head to face! She has come out of the sacrficial fire or the purpose of saving the Devas from Bhandasura and other asura! With four arms, endowed with the bow, arrows, and ankusa She hs drenched the entire universe with the soft orange color of the rising sun! Decked with Champaka, Asoka and Punnaga flowers, Her full moon face has the ‘mriganabhi’ mark similar to the spot in the moon! Her eyes are like the criscrossing fish in the Lakshmi like lake of Her face! Her nose gay outshines the brilliance of the stars! The sun and the moon have become Her thatankas- ear studs or rings! Her temple reflects like the mirror made of Padmaraga stone!
After describing the dazzling crown of Sri Mata studded with the “Dwadasadityas”, her thick dark locks of hair enviably fragrant,her plaits of hair that appear to imprison the Vermillion mark similar to the light of the rising sun, and Her captivating smile and seductive forelocks that defeat the beauty of the lotus, Sri Sankara gloats over the Divine beauty of forhead or ‘lalata’. Says Sankara, “ O Mother! Your lalata is elegant and glamorous, a different moon bit from the one that adorns your head! Otherwise how is it possible that when the four corners of the two moons are joined there is the full moon with all its sixteen kalas radiating softmoon light?”
As usual, Sankara loses himself in the inordinate beauty of his Divine mother! Each and every one of Her angas have an ethereal beauty that defy any description! He points out that Her lalata is a semicircle or a crescent! When the crescent on the head and the semicircular lalata ends are joined it becomes a full moon in all its glory! What a brilliant metaphorical description! !
The full moon formed by the combination of the four ends is an exceptional one coated with the Divine nectar or Amrita! Sankara is astonished at this rarest of the rare visions of Sri Mata's lalata! Extreme devotion coupled with poetic fervor and ripe imagination makes Sri Sankara experience and enjoy the vision of his Mother!
It is very difficult to find any other poet or a devotee of Sri Mata who can be compared to the great exponent of Adwaita for this kind of unparalleled description of Devi!
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