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Shloka 29

Adhyaya 85The Gods’ Hymn to the Goddess and the Emergence of Kaushiki; Shumbha Sends His Envoy

या देवी सर्वभूतेषु स्मृतिरूपेण संस्थिता ।

नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमो नमः ॥

yā devī sarvabhūteṣu smṛtirūpeṇa saṃsthitā / namastasyai namastasyai namastasyai namo namaḥ

या देवी सर्वभूतेषु स्मृतिरूपेण संस्थिता । नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमो नमः ॥

who (she)
:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootyad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
FormStrīliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana; relative pronoun
devīgoddess
devī:
Karta (कर्ता; apposition)
TypeNoun
Rootdevī (प्रातिपदिक)
FormStrīliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana
sarva-bhūteṣuin all beings
sarva-bhūteṣu:
Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण)
TypeNoun
Rootsarva (सर्व-प्रातिपदिक) + bhūta (भूत-प्रातिपदिक)
FormNapumsakaliṅga, Saptamī, Bahuvacana; karmadhāraya samāsa
smṛti-rūpeṇain the form of memory
smṛti-rūpeṇa:
Prakāra (प्रकार)
TypeNoun
Rootsmṛti (स्मृति-प्रातिपदिक) + rūpa (रूप-प्रातिपदिक)
FormNapumsakaliṅga, Tṛtīyā, Ekavacana; ṣaṣṭhī-tatpuruṣa (स्मृतेः रूपम्)
saṃsthitāis established/abides
saṃsthitā:
Karta-bhāva (predicate)
TypeVerb
Rootsam-√sthā (स्था धातु) (कृदन्त)
FormPPP (क्त); Strīliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana
namaḥsalutation
namaḥ:
Sambandha (salutation)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootnamas (नमस्-प्रातिपदिक)
FormAvyaya; salutation particle
tasyaito her
tasyai:
Sampradāna (सम्प्रदान)
TypeNoun
Roottad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
FormStrīliṅga, Caturthī, Ekavacana
namaḥsalutation
namaḥ:
Sambandha
TypeIndeclinable
Rootnamas (नमस्-प्रातिपदिक)
FormAvyaya
tasyaito her
tasyai:
Sampradāna
TypeNoun
Roottad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
FormStrīliṅga, Caturthī, Ekavacana
namaḥsalutation
namaḥ:
Sambandha
TypeIndeclinable
Rootnamas (नमस्-प्रातिपदिक)
FormAvyaya
tasyaito her
tasyai:
Sampradāna
TypeNoun
Roottad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
FormStrīliṅga, Caturthī, Ekavacana
namaḥsalutation
namaḥ:
Sambandha
TypeIndeclinable
Rootnamas (नमस्-प्रातिपदिक)
FormAvyaya
namaḥsalutation
namaḥ:
Sambandha
TypeIndeclinable
Rootnamas (नमस्-प्रातिपदिक)
FormAvyaya; repetition
Devī Māhātmya narrative voice (hymnic praise within the Saptashatī frame)

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Devī (Mahādevī/Durgā)
Devī as Smṛti (Memory)
ShaktismCognitionRemembranceDevotion

FAQs

Memory—needed for learning, gratitude, and moral continuity—is revered as divine; forgetting dharma is implicitly a loss of connection to Devī’s sustaining presence.

A stuti element that strengthens dharmic life; not a direct treatment of sarga/pratisarga/manvantara/vaṃśa/vaṃśānucarita.

Smṛti is the power of recollection that supports mantra-japa and self-remembrance; it also hints at the deeper ‘anamnesis’ of one’s spiritual identity.