Kali Sahashranama (Talk 9): ”The Man-lion” etc.

Discourse by Revered Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati on Kali Sahashranam (Thousand Names of Kali) given at Kali Mandir Ramakrishna Ashram, with a discussion of names 61 through 64 from verse 9.

māheśvarī ca cāmuṇdā vārāhī nārasiṁhikā |
vajrāṅgī vajrakaṅkālī nṛmuṇdasragviṇī śivā |9|

61. Māheśvarī – She who is Shiva, the great controller
62. Cāmuṇdā– She who beheaded Chanda and Munda
63. 63. Vārāhī – She who has the form of boar
64. Nārasiṁhikā – She who has the form of a man-lion