Lalitā Sahasranāma , Name 827 of 1000: प्रचण्डा · Pracaṇḍā
The Fiercely Burning
Artha
What the name means
Her heat is extreme, a violence that burns obstruction away rather than merely warming what it touches.
Japa
How to chant it
ॐ प्रचण्डायै नमः
oṃ pracaṇḍāyai namaḥ
om prachandayai namah
In the stotra the name is chanted as it stands, pracaṇḍā, as part of Shloka 155. 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
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 155Names 821–830
ब्रह्माणी ब्रह्मजननी बहुरूपा बुधार्चिता ।
प्रसवित्री प्रचण्डाऽऽज्ञा प्रतिष्ठा प्रकटाकृतिः ॥ १५५ ॥
brahmāṇī brahmajananī bahurūpā budhārcitā
prasavitrī pracaṇḍā''jñā pratiṣṭhā prakaṭākṛtiḥ
Study the whole shloka: The power of Brahmā, the fierce command, the form held open to sight
Chanted with it
Lipi
The name in other scripts
- Simple English spelling
- prachandaom prachandayai namah
- ITRANS
- prachaNDAOM prachaNDAyai namaH
- Harvard-Kyoto
- pracaNDAOM pracaNDAyai namaH
- తెలుగుTelugu
- ప్రచణ్డాఓం ప్రచణ్డాయై నమః
- ಕನ್ನಡKannada
- ಪ್ರಚಣ್ಡಾಓಂ ಪ್ರಚಣ್ಡಾಯೈ ನಮಃ
- മലയാളംMalayalam
- പ്രചണ്ഡാഓം പ്രചണ്ഡായൈ നമഃ
- தமிழ்Tamil
- ப்ரசண்டா³ஓம் ப்ரசண்டா³யை நமஃ
- ગુજરાતીGujarati
- પ્રચણ્ડાૐ પ્રચણ્ડાયૈ નમઃ
- বাংলাBengali
- প্রচণ্ডাওঁ প্রচণ্ডায়ৈ নমঃ
- ଓଡ଼ିଆOdia
- ପ୍ରଚଣ୍ଡାଓଁ ପ୍ରଚଣ୍ଡାୟୈ ନମଃ