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देवतामूर्ति-प्रकरणम् है। वज्र और अङ्कुश धारण करने वाली ललिता देवी है। पाश और अङ्कुश को धारण लीलावती देवी है। ये पाँच लीला देवी के स्वरूप हैं।
Now let me (Mandan) relate the forms of the five Leela goddesses, as distinguished according to the sacred Shastra scriptures. The five are called Leelya, Leela, Leelangi, Lalita and Leelawati. (45).
They are like molten gold in complexion, with the lustre and radiance of the rising sun, and (good) pleasing faces and cyes, beautiful in appearance and granting beauty to all. (46).
In their two lower (right and left) hands, all the five goddessess bold a string of prayer-beads and a kamandalu respectively. In the two upper hands each of the five goddesses holds the attributes described below. (47).
Leelya possesses flowering lotus-stalks (mrinalam) in both her upper hands, while Leela has a lotus and a book, Leelangi a noose and a lotus, and Lalita a thunderbolt (vajra) and a goad (ankusha) (48). The goddess Leelawati holds a noose and a goad in her two upper hands. .
These are the forms of the five glorious Leela goddesses. (49a).
नव दुर्गा देवी का स्वरूप
अस्यानन्तरतो वक्ष्ये नवदुर्गाः शुभावहाः ॥४९ ॥ आदौ तत्र महालक्ष्मीनन्दा क्षेमङ्करी तथा। सर्वती महरण्डा च भ्रमणी सर्वमंगला ॥५०॥ रेवती हरसिद्धिश्च नवदुर्गाभिधानकम्। पृथगेकैकस्यानुक्रमं कथयिष्याम्यनुक्रमात् ॥५१॥
अब शुभदायक नव दुर्गा का स्वरूप कहता हूँ। प्रथम दुर्गा देवी के नाम-महालक्ष्मी-१, नन्दा-२, क्षेमंकरी-३, सर्वती-४, महरण्डा-५, भ्रमणी-६, सर्वमंगला-७,
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शिवदूती महारण्डा । अ. २२२ ।
