Lalitā Sahasranāma , Name 455 of 1000: मालिनी · Mālinī
The Garlanded One
Artha
What the name means
She wears the garland, and the name belongs equally to the Mālinī ordering of the alphabet, its letters strung like flowers.
Japa
How to chant it
ॐ मालिन्यै नमः
oṃ mālinyai namaḥ
om malinyai namah
In the stotra the name is chanted as it stands, mālinī, as part of Shloka 95. 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.
Recite it among the thousand names →Loop its shloka until you know it →
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
mālā with the possessive suffix in, not a compound
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 95Names 452–458
तेजोवती त्रिनयना लोलाक्षीकामरूपिणी ।
मालिनी हंसिनी माता मलयाचलवासिनी ॥ ९५ ॥
tejovatī trinayanā lolākṣīkāmarūpiṇī
mālinī haṃsinī mātā malayācalavāsinī
Study the whole shloka: Fire, a third eye, the garland of letters, the swan, and one plain word
Lipi
The name in other scripts
- Simple English spelling
- maliniom malinyai namah
- ITRANS
- mAlinIOM mAlinyai namaH
- Harvard-Kyoto
- mAlinIOM mAlinyai namaH
- తెలుగుTelugu
- మాలినీఓం మాలిన్యై నమః
- ಕನ್ನಡKannada
- ಮಾಲಿನೀಓಂ ಮಾಲಿನ್ಯೈ ನಮಃ
- മലയാളംMalayalam
- മാലിനീഓം മാലിന്യൈ നമഃ
- தமிழ்Tamil
- மாலினீஓம் மாலின்யை நமஃ
- ગુજરાતીGujarati
- માલિનીૐ માલિન્યૈ નમઃ
- বাংলাBengali
- মালিনীওঁ মালিন্যৈ নমঃ
- ଓଡ଼ିଆOdia
- ମାଲିନୀଓଁ ମାଲିନ୍ୟୈ ନମଃ