I was originally meant to write a block of text here that was not related to the Sri Lalitha Sahasranama – we wanted to put something else here to give an alternative for those not fully interested in Aravindan’s modern commentary of the Sahasranama.

But I discovered the below and I had to share it.

Silappadikaram – a Tamil epic, at-least 1500 years old, has very similar references to the Devi as the Sahasranama.

Scholars have said that the descriptions of the goddess in the epic are drawn from the Sahasranama, and they have shown many examples to prove this.

The Brahmanda Purana, in which the 1000 names of the goddess is found, was composed probably 100-200 years before the Silappadikaram – in 200 years, a Vedic purana had spread to the very corners of India!

There’s more about Brahmana Purana.

It was the oldest Hindu text found as far away as Bali, Indonesia.

The purana contains detailed descriptions of Kanchipuram, Cuttack and Kashmir – indicating the spread of India’s sacred geography some 1600 years back.

It also contains Adhyatma Ramayana, an Advaita Vedanta treatise of over 65 chapters and 4,500 verses.

Amar Govindarajan

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