Essay name: Samrajya Lakshmi Pithika (Study)
Author:
Artatrana Sarangi
Affiliation: Savitribai Phule Pune University / Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages
This is a study in English of the Samrajya Lakshmi Pithika (written by Lolla Lakshmidhara) representing an encyclopedic manual for emperors. The Samrajyalaksmipithika encompasses about 3870 verses in addressing topics such as public festivals, governance, warfare (military strategy), and rituals associated with the Tantric worship for the deity Samrajya-Lakshmi.
Chapter 2 - Rituals connected with Samrajya-lakshmi
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continues the author, because of its natural propensity
in restraining (nivantrana) 1.e. cleansing the mind from
the evil influence of impurities like kama (desire) krodha
(anger), etc. The deity, it is added, can be pleased, when
worshipped through the medium of a yantra. (4.3-4)
3 A yantra is described to be replete with mantra whose
essence is the deity. The inter-relation between the two
is supposed to be quite intimate like that of the body and
4 soul. (5) As it is apprehended that the deity is not correctly
propitiated without the proper worship, accorded through the
medium of a yantra, so the mantravid (knower of mantra) is
invariably instructed to conduct the worship through a
Yantra only.
3.
&.
(5-6).
Kamakrodhadidosottha-manomala-nivamtranat /
Yantrami tyahuretasmin prasidetdevatarcita // (4.3)
yantran mantramava峁� prahu岣� /
mantratmadevateti ca //
dehatmanorya tha bhedo
mantradevatayostatha // (4.4)
Also Cf. kularnavatantra, Ed. Woodroffea and Pandit,
Madras, 1965, P.59 wherein, we find a similar idea ringing
throughout.
Yantra峁� mantramaya峁� proktam devata mantrar奴pini /
mantravatpulita devi sahasaiva prasidati //
