Lalitā Sahasranāma , Name 340 of 1000: विलासिनी · Vilāsinī
The Playful One
Artha
What the name means
She moves for the pleasure of moving, and the shimmer of that play is what we see as the world.
Japa
How to chant it
ॐ विलासिन्यै नमः
oṃ vilāsinyai namaḥ
om vilasinyai namah
In the stotra the name is chanted as it stands, vilāsinī, as part of Shloka 75. 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
Tap a syllable to see the letters inside it and hear each sound.
Vyākaraṇa
How the name is built
A single word rather than a compound.
New to the cases and compounds? The grammar you meet in the text.
Sandarbha
In its shloka
Shloka 75Names 334–340
विश्वाधिका वेदवेद्या विन्ध्याचलनिवासिनी ।
विधात्री वेदजननी विष्णुमाया विलासिनी ॥ ७५ ॥
viśvādhikā vedavedyā vindhyācalanivāsinī
vidhātrī vedajananī viṣṇumāyā vilāsinī
Study the whole shloka: Greater than everything, and living in a particular range of hills
Lipi
The name in other scripts
- Simple English spelling
- vilasiniom vilasinyai namah
- ITRANS
- vilAsinIOM vilAsinyai namaH
- Harvard-Kyoto
- vilAsinIOM vilAsinyai namaH
- తెలుగుTelugu
- విలాసినీఓం విలాసిన్యై నమః
- ಕನ್ನಡKannada
- ವಿಲಾಸಿನೀಓಂ ವಿಲಾಸಿನ್ಯೈ ನಮಃ
- മലയാളംMalayalam
- വിലാസിനീഓം വിലാസിന്യൈ നമഃ
- தமிழ்Tamil
- விலாஸினீஓம் விலாஸின்யை நமஃ
- ગુજરાતીGujarati
- વિલાસિનીૐ વિલાસિન્યૈ નમઃ
- বাংলাBengali
- বিলাসিনীওঁ বিলাসিন্যৈ নমঃ
- ଓଡ଼ିଆOdia
- ବିଲାସିନୀଓଁ ବିଲାସିନ୍ୟୈ ନମଃ