The namaskaram part is with the slokas with the refrain 'namastasyai namastasyai namastasyai namo namaH' in Ch.5 of Devee Maahaatmyam this has now been bracketed and the assistant vadhyaar (a young jobless fellow who could not make himself fit for even medical transcription job) does the individual namaskarams (Vadhyar with his prominent 'tonti' doing it will most surely result in 108 - the state's free emergency ambulance in Kerala - being summoned ), while the rest of the crowd perform only the last one/few. This has undergone many changes with time and 'yajamaana preferences' and so, today, we may find very little of moolamantra repetition but a mass reading of Lalitaa Sahasranamam, sometimes even in different Karnatik ragas (if the yajamaana's daughter or young wife has supposedly learnt those tunes!). Originally, only the moolamantra ॐ ह्रीं दुम् दुर्गायै नमः om̐ hrī ṃ dum durgāyai nama ḥ (used to be recited 1008 times and durga trisatee was read along with the Chapters V and XI of Devee bhagavatham. Suffice it to say that Bhagavathy Seva became a typical Malayalee mode of worship. The term 'bhagavathy' itself is etymologically interesting but I leave it here because the orthodoxy will find it extremely inconvenient. For the protection of these 'chosen people' of Parasurama, he also erected temples dedicated to siva and bhagavathy in those villages. According to their much-valued grantha called 'Keralolpatti' Parasurama threw his axe from Gokarnam and raised the land mass between Kanyakumari and Gokarnam and donated it to 64 Namboodiri groups or villages. I venture to post since conditions like 'only those who believe in Bhagavati Seva (BS) are allowed to post' etc., have, mysteriously, not been put.īS is, IMHO, of Namboodiri origin. I request the members to share their experiences of Bhagavathi Sevai. In Bhavani Sahasranama MAA is called Gudaanna Priyayai namah! Of course in the typical Brahmin tradition most of the comments at the end of the puja would be about the quality of Aravanai. Thus it is also called Namaskara Japam.ĭoing so many sashtanga Namaskarams one after the other is a back bending exercise. While reciting the priest and all those present do Namaskaram at the end of each verse ending with Narayani Namoasthudhe. The eleventh chapter of the Devi Mahatmyam is recited at the end of the Bagavathi Sevai. The lamp lookes beautiful at the end of the puja with all the flowers heaped around it. It is also done by reciting Durga Sahasranama. Puja consists of recital of Lalitha Sahasranama. Devi Bagavathi is invoked (Avahanam) in a Big brass lamp.

Bagavathi Sevai is a special Puja which is performed by the Malayalees and Tamil Brahmins of Kerala.

Bhavani sahasranamam pdf