

The devotee would get the effect of taking bath in sacred rivers like Ganga,Or One crore times and also the same effect as consecrating one crore lingas.Or One crore times giving in Kurukshetra on Sundays giving,One crore gold ornaments to the twice born who has learned Vedas,Or doing one crore Aswa medha yagas in the shores of the GangesOr digging one crore wells with water in the deserts,Or feeding one crore Brahmins daily during the famine,Or doing with great attention train one thousand children.

10Durbhikshe ya prathi dhinam koti brahmana bhojanam,Sradhaya parayaa kuryath sahasra parivathsaraan. Ya kotim hayamedhanaa maharedh gaangarodhasee,Īchareth koopa kotiyom nirjare maru bhoothale.

8Kurukshethre thu yo dadyath koti vaaram ravi gruhe,Koti sournabharanam srothreeyeshu dwijanmasu 9 Gangadhi sarva theertheshu ya snayath koti janmasu,Koti linga prathishtam thu ya kuryadh vimukthake. Oh, Sage born out of the pot, please hear the results,Of reading these in the middle of life by devotees. Thasya punya phalam vakshye srunu thwam Kumbha Sambhava. Janama madhye sakruchapi ya yevam padathe sudhee,

6Ĭhant the Sri Vidya mantra either 100 times or 400 times,And then these secret thousand names should be read. Vidhyam japeth sahasram vaa trishtatha shathameva cha,Rahasya naama saahasra midham paschad paden nara. Take bath in the morning, finish the oblations of the dawn,Go to the prayer room and first worship the Sree Chakra. Pratha snathwa vidhathena sandhya karma samapya cha,Pooja gruhe thatho gathwa chakra rajam samarchayeth 5 This special prayer of goddess to with an aim to please her,Should be chanted daily after worshipping of Lalitha. Yidham visesharidevya sthothram preethi vidhatakam,Japen nityam prayathnena lalithopasthi thath para. It is a cure for all types of fever, and gives rise to long life,It gives son that too first son and gives three types of wealth. Sarva jwararthi hananam deergayushya pradhayakam,Puthra pradhama puthraanaam purushartha pradhayakam. This cures all diseases and gives rise to all types of wealth,It cures all accidental deaths and is an antidote to untimely death. Sarva roga prasamanam sarva sampath pravardhanam,Sarvaapath mruthyu shamanam akala mruthyu nivaranam. These 1000 names which were told, Oh Agasthya,Are secret of the secrets and are very dear to Lalitha.This type of prayer has never existed in the past or will exist in future. Nama sahasram khaditham they ghatothbhava,Rahasyaanam rahasyam cha Lalitha preethi dayakam,Aanena sadrusam stotram na bhootham na bhavishyathi. It is as per the desire of a devotee that Iam translating this great work, which occurs in Markandeya purana, it is taught by SageMarkandeya to sage Agasthya,) So it is notrecited along with the thousand names of Lalitha. Laitha Sahasranama, phala sruthi is the next chapter and separate from it. Phala Sruthi of Lalitha Sahasranama(The effect of reciting the thousand names of LalithaTranslated byP.R.Ramachander (Unlike Vishnu sahasranama, where the phala sruthi is the part of the stotra, in case of
