Dear list members,

Firstly happy Navaratri.

Secondly I'm wondering what the best way to translate bhagavati and bhagavan would be.  The target audience is a non-specialist non-sanskritist audience.  The contexts are typically where someone is addressing a god or goddess  where the actual name of the god/goddess is also mentioned fairly close . A typical example would be this gayatrī to annapūrṇā .  

bhagavatyai ca vidmahe
māheśvaryai ca dhīmahi
tan no annapūrṇā pracodayāt

Thanks,

Harry Spier