Form · Shakta · Pan-India

Shakambhari

Also called: Shatakshi, Shakumbhari

The goddess as she who bears vegetables: in the drought Durgama caused, she fed the starving world with greens, fruits and roots from her own body. Also called Shatakshi, the hundred-eyed, for the eyes that wept for nine days.

Sources: Devi Bhagavata Purana 7.28, On the glory of Shatakshi Devi, tr. Swami Vijnanananda (1921); Shakambhari (Wikipedia) · see Shakambhari's web

Relations 1

Shakambhari form of

Durga (God) Shakta · Durgama, the weeping eyes and the goddess of greens
The same goddess in the drought.

Stories 1

Durgama, the weeping eyes and the goddess of greens
Legend · as the goddess who bears greens · 2 tellings

Cited

Devi Bhagavata Purana 7.28, On the glory of Shatakshi Devi, tr. Swami Vijnanananda (1921) Primary text (translation)
Shakambhari (Wikipedia) Encyclopedia