Lalitā Sahasranāma , Name 864 of 1000: कनत्कनकताटङ्काकनत्-कनक-ताटङ्का · KanatkanakatāṭaṅkāKanat-kanaka-tāṭaṅkā
Wearing Earrings Of Gleaming Gold
Artha
What the name means
Gold catches the light at her ears, and the flash of those ornaments is often the first thing a worshipper sees of her face.
Japa
How to chant it
ॐ कनत्कनकताटङ्कायै नमः
oṃ kanatkanakatāṭaṅkāyai namaḥ
om kanatkanakatatankayai namah
In the stotra the name is chanted as it stands, kanatkanakatāṭaṅkā, as part of Shloka 161. 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
whose earrings are of glittering gold
vigraha kanatkanakamayaṃ tāṭaṅkaṃ yasyāḥ sā
glittering gold
vigraha kanat ca tat kanakaṃ ca
shining, glittering (present participle of √kan)
gold
large ear-ornament, earring
New to the cases and compounds? The grammar you meet in the text.
Sandarbha
In its shloka
Shloka 161Names 862–865
कार्यकारणनिर्मुक्ता कामकेलितरङ्गिता ।
कनत्कनकताटङ्का लीलाविग्रहधारिणी ॥ १६१ ॥
kāryakāraṇanirmuktā kāmakelitaraṅgitā
kanatkanakatāṭaṅkā līlāvigrahadhāriṇī
Study the whole shloka: Outside cause and effect, and therefore at play
Lipi
The name in other scripts
- Simple English spelling
- kanatkanakatatankaom kanatkanakatatankayai namah
- ITRANS
- kanatkanakatATa~NkAOM kanatkanakatATa~NkAyai namaH
- Harvard-Kyoto
- kanatkanakatATaGkAOM kanatkanakatATaGkAyai namaH
- తెలుగుTelugu
- కనత్కనకతాటఙ్కాఓం కనత్కనకతాటఙ్కాయై నమః
- ಕನ್ನಡKannada
- ಕನತ್ಕನಕತಾಟಙ್ಕಾಓಂ ಕನತ್ಕನಕತಾಟಙ್ಕಾಯೈ ನಮಃ
- മലയാളംMalayalam
- കനത്കനകതാടങ്കാഓം കനത്കനകതാടങ്കായൈ നമഃ
- தமிழ்Tamil
- கனத்கனகதாடங்காஓம் கனத்கனகதாடங்காயை நமஃ
- ગુજરાતીGujarati
- કનત્કનકતાટઙ્કાૐ કનત્કનકતાટઙ્કાયૈ નમઃ
- বাংলাBengali
- কনৎকনকতাটঙ্কাওঁ কনৎকনকতাটঙ্কায়ৈ নমঃ
- ଓଡ଼ିଆOdia
- କନତ୍କନକତାଟଙ୍କାଓଁ କନତ୍କନକତାଟଙ୍କାୟୈ ନମଃ