{"collection":"tantra","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tantra/htg/htg10.htm","path":"tantra/htg/htg10.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tantra/htg/htg10.htm","text":"Hymns to the Goddess, by John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon), [1913]\nO DEV\u012a KAMAL\u0100,\u00a03 beloved of Vi\u1e63\u1e47u,\n Adored by the three worlds,\n As Thou art constant to Vi\u1e63\u1e47u, be Thou constant to me.\n Whoever worshipping Lak\u1e63m\u012b, reads these twelve names of Her--\n I\u015bvar\u012b, Kamala,\u00a04 Lak\u1e63m\u012b, Cal\u0101,\u00a05\n Bh\u016bti,\u00a06 Haripriy\u0101,\u00a07 Padm\u0101,\u00a08 Padm\u0101lay\u0101,\u00a09 Sampat,\u00a010\nUchaih,\u00a01 \u015ar\u012b\u00a02 Padmadh\u0101rin\u012b,\u00a03\n With such an one, his wife and children,\n Lak\u1e63m\u012b ever abides.\n54:1 Lak\u1e63m\u012b, commonly called \u015ar\u012b, Dev\u012b of prosperity and beauty: the \u015aakti, or Spouse of Vi\u1e63\u1e47u, who rose resplendent from the sea at the churning of the ocean by the Devas and Asuras, and then reclining on the breast of Hari, gazed upon the enraptured Devas. As her Lord assumes various forms, so does She.\n54:2 P. 577.\n54:3 Because She appeared from the lotus.\n54:4 Feminine of \u012a\u015bvara, or Lord, or Ruler.\n54:5 Or Cancal\u0101, the fickle one, for nothing is so fickle as wealth and prosperity--\"here to-day and gone to-morrow.\"\n54:6 Prosperity.\n54:7 Beloved of Hari (Vi\u1e63\u1e47u).\n54:8 Lotus.\n54:9 Who dwells in the lotus.\n54:10 Wealth.\n55:1 The exalted One, for prosperity exalts.\n55:2 Beauty and prosperity.\n55:3 Holding the lotus in her hands.","title":"Hymns to the Goddess: From Tantra: Lak\u1e63m\u012b (Laksm\u012bstotram)...","type":"page"}