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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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External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)


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it were, the conglomerate of Kunda flowers in whiteness.
She bears a pair of lips that are red like the bimba
fruit and has rows of beautiful
teeth and a conch-like
neck. Her pair of hands are well-rounded, long and are
rendered drooping by the weight of her shapely breasts.
Her navel is like a whirlpool (avarta) and the waist is
slender enough to warrant invisibility. Her stout hips are
fancifully described to compete with sandy banks and the
thighs are akin to (the interior of) a banana free. Her
shanks are slim, ankles, concealed and the feet are (convex)
like a tortoise. She is holding a pair of lotus flowers
in two of her hands. Her forehead bears the tilaka- marks
of musk and she wears a rubby-studded crown on her head.
Her ear-rings look more beautiful with sparkling gems and
on her nose shines a resplendent nose-ornament and the
beauty of her neck is enhanced by a necklace of thick pearls.
The priceless bodice which she wears is also decked with
hard cat's-eye-gems (vaidurvas). Her four hands are also not
without ornaments of the wrist (karkana) and of the upper
arms like angadas, etc. Her waist-string is known to be
of utkala variety from which issue forth bright beams of
light emanating from crores of streaks of lightnings, as it
were, and her lotus feet are never devoid of tinkling of
anklets and rattling of bracelets. (15-24).

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