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  Hareś caritam adbhutam  - Visesha Mahima of Śrī Nṛsiṃha Avatāra (12 Windows) An offering on the occasion of Śrī N ṛ si ṃ ha Jayantī on April 29 th 2026 Contents Prologue 1. The beginning…the framing 2. A brief recollection of what leads up to that moment 3. The emergence of the ati-adbhuta-rūpam 4. The 12 windows of divine contemplation on Śrī Nṛsiṃha Avatāram An avatāra outside the ordinary creational decree Setting aside the eternal weapons, choosing only the nails The avatāra itself was kaṭinam , but its kāryam was sulabham Ready to appear from a thousand pillars The Svāmi vanishing from external sight, while shining from within as Ātman The Svāmi Himself sings the glory of the devotee A rūpa so unique that even the asura is left grasping Even Śrī Lakṣmī did not approach And yet Prahlāda walked forward, fearlessly A devotee who corrected the very framework of giving and receiving Even Hiraṇyakaśipu, favored by the lap of the Svāmi Hari Himself coming as Ha...

Lalitā Sahasranāma and Soundarya Laharī Correlated Entries inspired by Sri Bhāskararāya’s Saubhāgya-Bhāskara Commentary w/ additional correlations highlighted.  The following entries map each name of the Lalitā Sahasranāma for which the Saubhāgya-Bhāskara commentary explicitly references a verse of Śaṅkara-Bhagavatpāda’s Soundarya Laharī to that verse. Each entry presents the name with a word-by-word gloss, a prose meaning, the relevant Soundarya Laharī verse in IAST, a translation, and a short correlation paragraph. IAST is used throughout. 15: Aṣṭamīcandravibhrājadaḻikasthalaśobhitā aṣṭamī – of the eighth lunar day | candra – moon | vibhrāja – shining, resplendent | daḻika-sthala – forehead region | śobhitā – adorned, made beautiful She whose forehead is adorned with the radiant brilliance of the crescent moon of the eighth lunar day, shining with delicate and auspicious beauty. Soundarya Laharī – Śloka 46 lalāṭaṃ lāvaṇyadyutivimalamābhāti tava ya- ddvitīyaṃ tanm...