Lalitā Sahasranāma , Name 96 of 1000: अकुला · Akulā
Beyond The Kula
Artha
What the name means
Above the whole ordered assembly of powers is a place where the ordering stops, and she is there too.
Japa
How to chant it
ॐ अकुलायै नमः
oṃ akulāyai namaḥ
om akulayai namah
In the stotra the name is chanted as it stands, akulā, as part of Shloka 37. 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 negative compound: read as a nañ-tatpuruṣa, she who is not the kula, though it can equally be taken as a bahuvrīhi, she for whom there is no kula.
not the kula, beyond the assembly of powers
vigraha na kulam
not, un-
family, lineage; the tantric assembly
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Sandarbha
In its shloka
Shloka 37Names 92–98
कुलाङ्गना कुलान्तस्था कौलिनी कुलयोगिनी ।
अकुला समयान्तस्था समयाचारतत्परा ॥ ३७ ॥
kulāṅganā kulāntasthā kaulinī kulayoginī
akulā samayāntasthā samayācāratatparā
Study the whole shloka: Kula, and what lies outside it
Lipi
The name in other scripts
- Simple English spelling
- akulaom akulayai namah
- ITRANS
- akulAOM akulAyai namaH
- Harvard-Kyoto
- akulAOM akulAyai namaH
- తెలుగుTelugu
- అకులాఓం అకులాయై నమః
- ಕನ್ನಡKannada
- ಅಕುಲಾಓಂ ಅಕುಲಾಯೈ ನಮಃ
- മലയാളംMalayalam
- അകുലാഓം അകുലായൈ നമഃ
- தமிழ்Tamil
- அகுலாஓம் அகுலாயை நமஃ
- ગુજરાતીGujarati
- અકુલાૐ અકુલાયૈ નમઃ
- বাংলাBengali
- অকুলাওঁ অকুলায়ৈ নমঃ
- ଓଡ଼ିଆOdia
- ଅକୁଲାଓଁ ଅକୁଲାୟୈ ନମଃ