Citrā (Cidrupā)

This chapter opens on the Pūrṇimā tithi — the Full Moon, the day of Citrā, the Variegated and Wondrous. The fifteenth verse is the hymn's great arrival: that Lakṣmī who never departs — she through whom I find abundant gold, cattle, maidservants, horses, and people. Citrā is the full moon precisely because she contains all colors simultaneously; full prosperity is not the absence of particulars but their complete flowering at once. The shadow of this tithi is hiding prosperity — the contraction that prevents abundance from being fully claimed, embodied, and expressed.