He woke up, opened his third eye and burnt Manmatha in to ashes. So the devas requested Manmatha, the god of love to shoot an arrow on Lord Shiva. Sathi was born as the daughter of the Himalaya Mountain. At that time Sathi the wife of Shiva had died and Lord Shiva was doing penance. The devas were being troubled by asuras called Daruka and Soora who had a boon that they could only be killed by a son of Shiva. Now a summary of the story told in the Lalithambal Shobanam/Lalithopakhyanam. If it is told several times, some time it would coincide with the blessing of the devas and all good will happen to us. The repeating of Shobanam was primarily for this. So they thought bad wishes should never be made for if it coincides with the saying of the devas, it would really happen. The Iyer women believe that there were two devas who were floating in the sky who keep on repeating “Let it happen” in short time intervals. Shobanam means a prayer that everything should turn out to be good. Towards the beginning of twentieth centaury, this prayer became very much popular in the Palakkad iyer homes and did not get to the same level of popularity in the Tamil Iyer homes.Įach stanza of the prayer ends with Shobanam repeated twice. They usually complete it by the time their house hold chores are done. The ladies used to learn it by heart and start singing it immediately after their bath. The Upakhyanam in the Purana is written in Sanskrit and the Iyer women considered Lalitha as their Goddess and someone composed a summary in the colloquial language used in households. It is narrated by Hayagreeva (The Horse faced incarnation of Lord Vishnu) to sage Agasthya as per his request. This popular poem which used to be daily recited by thousands of ladies in Iyer homes in Tamil Nadu is a summary of Lalithopakhyanam found in Brahmanda Purana.
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