In some cases, the lotus is growing out of Shiva's navel. She is often depicted iconographically as seated on a lotus that rests on the supine body of Sadashiva, which in turn lies on a throne whose legs are the gods Brahma, Visnu, Isvara, and Rudra. She has as her throne with its legs being Pancha Brahmas (five Brahmas) (name 249). Seated on a throne like a queen (names 2 and 3), to wear jewels (names 13 and 14), to have the auspicious marks of a married woman (names 16–25), and to have heavy breasts and a thin waist (name 36) the crescent moon adorns her forehead, and her smile overwhelms Kameshwara, the lord of desire (name 28). Shaktism depiction of Sodashi seated on a lotus emerging from Shivaĭetails of her appearance are found in the famous hymn in her praise, the Lalita Sahasranama, where she is said to be, The Lalita Sahasranama lists a thousand names of the Goddess. She is also known as Lalita (the graceful one) Kameshwari, and Lalita Gauri. Shaktas consider her Consort as Lord Sadashiva in the form of Kameshwar. She is Trayi, the unified combination of the three gods Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. She dwells in the three worlds of manas, buddhi, and Chitta. She is Tripura because she is beyond the three Gunas.
The Shodashi Tantra refers to Shodashi as the "Beauty of the Three Cities," or Tripurasundari. Tripura Sundari is also known by names as Ṣoḍaśī ("She who is the sixteenth" ), Lalitā, Kāmeśvarī, Śrīvidyā and Rajarajeshwari. Here again, she is identified with reality expressed in terms of speech, which involves a speaker, what is said, and objects to which the words refer. She is threefold also because she represents the subject (maul), instrument (mina), and object (meya) of all things. She is three-fold, furthermore, because she expresses herself in Brahma, Visnu, and Siva in her roles as creator, maintainer, and destroyer of the universe. Here Tripura is identified with the alphabet, from which all sounds and words proceed and which is often understood to occupy a primordial place in tantric cosmology. She is also called Tripura because her mantra
She is called Tripura because she is identical with the triangle (trikona) that symbolizes the yoni and that forms her chakra (see below). The Tripura Sundari Temple is located in the district town of Udaipur in Tripura, about one and a half-hour drive from Agartala. Therefore, " Tripura Sundarī" literally means "She who is beautiful in the three states of Consciousness". Īnother meaning of Tripura is Three states of Consciousness.
However, " Tripura" can also mean " Śiva Śaktir ( Shiva Shakti)" while " sundarī" means "a beautiful woman". The Sanskrit word 'Tripura' is a combination of two Sanskrit words " Tri" meaning " tráyas (three)" and " pura" meaning a city or citadel, but also understood as referring to three cities or citadels "built of gold, silver, and iron, in the sky, air, and earth, by Maya for the Asuras, and burnt by Śiva" referring to the legend of the three cities destroyed by Shiva. In this rendering of the goddess, she is self-emergent, as the Sri Chakra is identical with the goddess herself". In another case, she is depicted as growing from the Sri Chakra, the yantra of Tripurasundari. Kinsley says, In one instance she is said to be sitting on Shiva's lap in the kāmeśvara form, the "Lord of Desire". She is described as the supreme consciousness, ruling from above Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. The Tripura Upanishad places her as the ultimate Shakti (energy, power) of the universe. Īccording to the Srikula tradition in Shaktism, Tripura Sundari is the foremost of the Mahavidyas, the highest aspect of Mahadevi and also the primary goddess of Sri Vidya. She is glorified in many Shakta texts, with Lalita Sahasranama being the most popular one. Tripura Sundari ( Sanskrit: त्रिपुर सुन्दरी, IAST: Tripura Sundarī), also known as Rajarajeshwari, Shodashi and Lalita, is a Hindu goddess and is an aspect of Mahadevi mainly venerated in Shaktism, the goddess-oriented sect of Hinduism. Lalita Jayanti on Magha Purnima, Lalita Panchami Brahman, Shakti, Mahadevi, Mahavidya, Parvati