--- In ambaa-l (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com, "Ramesh" <maakash@m...> wrote:
>
> >Is Shri Kula Sundari devi same as Shri Bala Tripura
> >Sundari?? While seeing the photos of thithi nityas I
> >found that the desription of both are similar and also
> >the yantra seems similar.
> No they are totally different, this mistake is because the
mantra's are
> similar( ie the same mantra) but the dhyana sloka gives the bala
as with
> once face, four arms seated on a blooming blue lotus, while
kulasundari has
> six faces-three eyed and twelve arms,seated on a boat.

Interestingly enough, Shri Vidyaranya Muni, who was the
Shankaracharya of Shringeri a few centuries back, quotes the
Tripurarnava tantra, in his work Shrividyarnava, to show that Bala
is identical with Nityaa nitya instead of Kulasundari.

the sentence goes like "bAlA nityAnityayoH abhedAt.h...etc.etc."

meaning "due to non-difference between Bala and NityA nitya....."

rgds