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Mahadevi
Devi · Yoganidra · Mahamaya · Bhuvaneshvari · Adi Shakti
The Great Goddess of the Shakta frame. In the Devi Mahatmya she is the sleep in which Vishnu lies and must leave his…
Kolhapur
Karavirapura · Karavira
Seat of the Mahalakshmi (Ambabai) temple, one of the Shakti Peethas, and in the Tirumala telling the place Lakshmi…
Mahishasura
Mahisha
The buffalo demon whose boon of near-invulnerability, granted by Brahma in most tellings, is undone by the goddess…
Durga
The warrior goddess of the Devi Mahatmya who slays the buffalo demon Mahishasura, the demon whose boon that no man…
Kali
Kalika · Dakshina Kali
The fierce goddess of Bengal, shown standing on a prostrate Shiva; declared here only as a stub for the folk record in…
Kalika Purana
Shakta Purana of the east that tells Ardhanarishvara's origin through Parvati's jealousy of her own reflection. Stub…
The Shakti Peethas
The shrines where parts of Sati's body fell as Shiva carried her corpse after Daksha's sacrifice; strongest in Bengal…
Bar Raja Ambika
The Ahom queen, consort of Siva Singha, who built the Sivadol in 1734 beside the Borpukhuri tank. Stub entity.
Mahamaya (Yoganidra)
Yoganidra · Devi
The Goddess as the sleep that holds Vishnu on the cosmic waters in the Devi Mahatmya; Brahma must praise her and ask…
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
The 19th-century priest of the Dakshineswar Kali temple whose practice presented Kali as the universal Mother and…
The Matrikas
Saptamatrika · Carcika · Mangala
The mother-goddesses who drank the blood of Andhaka so that no new demon could spring from each fallen drop; the Vamana…