Lalita Stava Ratnam is quite a complicated treatise written
by Sage Durvasa. This is a detailed description of the structure of the Sri
Chakra yantra in the form of Maha Meru. The inspiration to recite this
phenomenal stotram came about from reading an article that dealt with an
upanyasam of Sri Kanchi Maha Periyava, wherein He had praised the Lalita Stava
Ratnam, which also goes by the name of Arya Dvishathi, as it comprises of 214
verses. As one listens to or recites Lalita Stava Ratnam, one
can envision Goddess Lalita Maha Tripura Sundari and All of the associated
Devis and Yoginis of the Sri Chakra.
This is a complicated set of mantras; during recitation,
some errors were found in the original first printed source given below; hence
comparisons were made with the second printed source given below; inspite of
this, it is believed there are a couple of printing errors.
This is a long hymn. The key in the recitation is to know
where the break points in the lines are and the intonations as to where to go
high and low on the recitation so it sounds nice. The audio skips through the
nyaasams in the beginning and goes straight to the hymn. Because of age, you
can find the voice becoming somewhat weaker towards the end of the recital.
And now the audio: about 1 hour long.( Mobile devices: click download; then play.)
NOTE: BECAUSE THIS IS A VERY LARGE FILE ABOUT 57 MEGABYTES, YOU WILL HAVE TO DOWNLOAD AND THEN LISTEN. On mobile devices and some computers, you may get the message -- This file is too large for Google to scan, download anyway? -- You will have to answer "YES" and then listen after download. On some computers, when you hit the play button, if nothing seems to happen, click the Download arrow at the top, click download anyway and then listen. Sorry for the inconvenience -- but this is a big file and praise to Sri Lalita Tripura Sundari Devi -- Her Grace is magnificent !
There have been some errors in the audio pronunciation as
given here:
Verse 10/2nd line: Mispronounced as “Ma” instead
of “Maa”.Verse 46/1st line: Mispronounced as “Lo” instead of “Lee”.
Verse 116/2nd line: Mispronounced as “mala” instead of “lama”.
Verse 124/2nd line: Mispronounced as “Lo” instead of “Lou”.
Verse 126/2nd line: Mispronounced as “Maavanthu” instead of “Maamavanthu”.
Verse 181/2nd line: Mispronounced as “Vindhyaam” instead of “Vidhyaam”.
Verse 188/2nd line: Mispronounced as “Shobha” instead of “Shobhi”.
Verse 204/1st line: Mispronounced as “Mey” instead of “Maam”.
The Sanskrit lyrics can be found at :
http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_devii/lalitAstavaratnam.pdf
They can also be found at:
https://archive.org/stream/Lalita-Stava-Ratnam-Durvasa-Edited-by-Ballajin-Nath-Pandit/Lalita-stava-ratnam-durvasa-edited-by-ballajin-nath-panditkashmirShaivism#page/n33/mode/2up
Om Shree Lalita Maha Tripura Sundari Devi Namo Namaha !
