Lalitā Sahasranāma , Name 167 of 1000: पापनाशिनीपाप-नाशिनी · PāpanāśinīPāpa-nāśinī
Destroyer Of Sin
Artha
What the name means
She wipes out accumulated wrongdoing, which is why the guilty come to her first.
Japa
How to chant it
ॐ पापनाशिन्यै नमः
oṃ pāpanāśinyai namaḥ
om papanashinyai namah
In the stotra the name is chanted as it stands, pāpanāśinī, as part of Shloka 47. In the nāmāvalī, the form used for arcana(worship with an offering at each name), it is turned to the dative, the case of offering: “to her”. Then it is framed by oṃ before and namaḥ, “salutation”, after.
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Uccāraṇa
Saying it, syllable by syllable
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Vyākaraṇa
How the name is built
she who destroys sin
vigraha pāpaṃ nāśayati iti
evil, sin
destroying, doing away with
New to the cases and compounds? The grammar you meet in the text.
Sandarbha
In its shloka
Shloka 47Names 160–167
निश्चिन्ता निरहङ्कारा निर्मोहा मोहनाशिनी ।
निर्ममा ममताहन्त्री निष्पापा पापनाशिनी ॥ ४७ ॥
niścintā nirahaṅkārā nirmohā mohanāśinī
nirmamā mamatāhantrī niṣpāpā pāpanāśinī
Study the whole shloka: Without I, without mine
Lipi
The name in other scripts
- Simple English spelling
- papanashiniom papanashinyai namah
- ITRANS
- pApanAshinIOM pApanAshinyai namaH
- Harvard-Kyoto
- pApanAzinIOM pApanAzinyai namaH
- తెలుగుTelugu
- పాపనాశినీఓం పాపనాశిన్యై నమః
- ಕನ್ನಡKannada
- ಪಾಪನಾಶಿನೀಓಂ ಪಾಪನಾಶಿನ್ಯೈ ನಮಃ
- മലയാളംMalayalam
- പാപനാശിനീഓം പാപനാശിന്യൈ നമഃ
- தமிழ்Tamil
- பாபநாஶினீஓம் பாபநாஶின்யை நமஃ
- ગુજરાતીGujarati
- પાપનાશિનીૐ પાપનાશિન્યૈ નમઃ
- বাংলাBengali
- পাপনাশিনীওঁ পাপনাশিন্যৈ নমঃ
- ଓଡ଼ିଆOdia
- ପାପନାଶିନୀଓଁ ପାପନାଶିନ୍ୟୈ ନମଃ