Lalitā Sahasranāma , Name 589 of 1000: कामकोटिकाकाम-कोटिका · KāmakoṭikāKāma-koṭikā
The Utmost Point Of Desire
Artha
What the name means
She is where longing arrives and stops, a name also borne by the shrine at Kāñcī that carries the word Kāmakoṭi.
Japa
How to chant it
ॐ कामकोटिकायै नमः
oṃ kāmakoṭikāyai namaḥ
om kamakotikayai namah
In the stotra the name is chanted as it stands, kāmakoṭikā, as part of Shloka 118. 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
koṭi means both 'highest point' and 'ten million'; the second sense yields the alternative reading, 'she of countless Kāmas'.
she who is the summit of desire
vigraha kāmasya koṭiḥ
wish, desire, love
the highest point or extremity, koṭi with the suffix -ka
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Sandarbha
In its shloka
Shloka 118Names 583–589
आत्मविद्या महाविद्या श्रीविद्या कामसेविता ।
श्रीषोडशाक्षरीविद्या त्रिकूटा कामकोटिका ॥ ११८ ॥
ātmavidyā mahāvidyā śrīvidyā kāmasevitā
śrīṣoḍaśākṣarīvidyā trikūṭā kāmakoṭikā
Study the whole shloka: Four kinds of knowing, and the mantra named at last
Lipi
The name in other scripts
- Simple English spelling
- kamakotikaom kamakotikayai namah
- ITRANS
- kAmakoTikAOM kAmakoTikAyai namaH
- Harvard-Kyoto
- kAmakoTikAOM kAmakoTikAyai namaH
- తెలుగుTelugu
- కామకోటికాఓం కామకోటికాయై నమః
- ಕನ್ನಡKannada
- ಕಾಮಕೋಟಿಕಾಓಂ ಕಾಮಕೋಟಿಕಾಯೈ ನಮಃ
- മലയാളംMalayalam
- കാമകോടികാഓം കാമകോടികായൈ നമഃ
- தமிழ்Tamil
- காமகோடிகாஓம் காமகோடிகாயை நமஃ
- ગુજરાતીGujarati
- કામકોટિકાૐ કામકોટિકાયૈ નમઃ
- বাংলাBengali
- কামকোটিকাওঁ কামকোটিকায়ৈ নমঃ
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- କାମକୋଟିକାଓଁ କାମକୋଟିକାୟୈ ନମଃ