What is DEVI [ ?? ]

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I read through lalitopakhyana quickly. I have the following question.

 

1) Is manmatha dead or alive ? (i mean at present, i assume all people

reading are in the same universe and in same time).

 

Lets start from there..

 

I understand lalitha is the goddess who recreates the universe (or

helps to create the universe) after a Kama Pralaya (There are 4 types

of pralayas listed).

 

When was the last kama pralaya?.

 

The Homas etc seems to be rather costly to perform since they need

waters from five oceans etc.

 

So i would assume only a minute version of these yagas can be

performed, otherwise one has to resort to internal yagas (Samaya ?)

 

Help!!