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tusks from the ends of her bloody mouth. She wears red and blue garments and is adorned with a garland of skulls around her neck. She also wears a belt decorated with severed hands and bones attached to it. She is also decked with snakes and serpents too as her ornamentation – rarely is she seen wearing any jewelry on her limbs. Of her four hands, two are open and two hold a rosary and book.
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exhaustion, restlessness, constant hunger and thirst. She wears white clothes, donned in the attire of a widow. She is sitting in a horseless chariot as her vehicle of transportation and on top of the chariot, there is an emblem of a crow as well as a banner. She has two trembling hands, her one hand bestows boons and/or knowledge and the other holds a
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The fierce goddess. The female version of Bhairava. Bhairavi is of a fiery, volcanic red complexion, with three furious eyes, and disheveled hair. Her hair is matted, tied up in a bun, decorated by a crescent moon as well as adorning two horns, one sticking out from each side. She has two protruding
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The goddess as the world mother, or whose body comprises all the fourteen lokas of the cosmos. Bhuvaneshvari is of a fair, golden complexion, with three content eyes as well as a calm mien. She wears red and yellow garments, decorated with ornaments on her limbs and has four hands. Two of her four
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systems). Mahakali is of a pitch black complexion, darker than the dark of the dead of the night. She has three eyes, representing the past, present and future. She has shining white, fang-like teeth, a gaping mouth, and her red, bloody tongue hanging from there. She has unbound, disheveled hairs.
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to heal him as her child. Tara is of a light blue complexion. She has disheveled hair, wearing a crown decorated with the digit of the half-moon. She has three eyes, a snake coiled comfortably around her throat, wearing the skins of tigers, and a garland of skulls. She is also seen wearing a belt
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The widow goddess. Dhumavati is of a smoky dark brown complexion, her skin is wrinkled, her mouth is dry, some of her teeth have fallen out, her long disheveled hair is gray, her eyes are seen as bloodshot and she has a frightening mien, which is seen as a combined source of anger, misery, fear,
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The goddess who acts as a guide and a protector, and she who offers the ultimate knowledge that grants salvation. She is the goddess of all sources of energy. The energy of the sun is believed to originate from her. She manifested as the mother of Shiva after the incident of
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The goddess who paralyzes enemies. Bagalamukhi has a molten gold complexion with three bright eyes, lush black hair and a benign mien. She is seen wearing yellow garments and apparel. She is decked with yellow ornaments on her limbs. Her two hands hold a
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She wears tiger skins as her garments, a garland of skulls and a garland of rosy red flowers around her neck, and on her belt, she was adorned with skeletal bones, skeletal hands as well as severed arms and hands as her ornamentation. She has
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The ten mahavidyas, Rajasthan. Top: Kali. Second row (l->r): Bhairavi, Bhuvaneshvari, Tara. Third row (l->r): Bagalamukhi, Shodashi, Chhinnamasta. Last row (l->r):Kamalatmika, Matangi, Dhumavati
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is adored and approached as ten cosmic personalities," the Dasa-Mahavidya ("ten-Mahavidyas"). As per another school of thought in Shaktism Mahavidyas are considered to be form of
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age, around 6th century CE, it was a new theistic movement in which the supreme being was envisioned as female. A fact epitomized by texts like
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Shin, Jae-Eun (2010). "Yoni, Yoginis and Mahavidyas : Feminine Divinities from Early Medieval Kamarupa to Medieval Koch Behar".
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or club and holds demon Madanasura by the tongue to keep him at bay. She is shown seated on either a throne or on the back of a
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and the sword and two others carried a demon head and a bowl collecting the blood dripping from a demon head.
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hands hold a goad and noose while her other two hands are open. She is seated on a divine, celestial throne.
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however, list Shodashi (Sodasi) as Tripura Sundari, which is simply another name for the same goddess.
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The Myths and Gods of India: The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism from the Princeton Bollingen Series
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differently, and states that the Mahavidyas are the source from which the avatars of Vishnu arise.
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The goddess who is the ultimate form of Brahman, and the devourer of time (Supreme Deity of
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Change, Continuity and Complexity: The Mahavidyas in East Indian Sakta Traditions
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Hindu Goddesses: Vision of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition
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The development of the Mahavidyas represent an important turning point in the
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Guhyati Guyha-Tantra Association between the Mahavidyas and the Dashavatara
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systems); the "Tantric Parvati" or the "Moksha Mukta". She is the ruler of
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Shaktas believe, "the one Truth is sensed in ten different facets; the
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Todala-Tantra Association between the Mahavidyas and the Dashavatara
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The Guhyati guyha-tantra associates the Mahavidyas with the
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Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas
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The Todala-Tantra associates the Mahavidyas with the
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Index

Mahavidyas

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Tara
Tripura Sundari
Bhuvaneshvari
Bhairavi
Chhinnamasta
Dhumavati
Bagalamukhi
Matangi
Kamala
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Shaktism

History
Deities
Mahadevi
Devi
Shakti
Parvati
Durga
Mahavidya
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Lalita
Matrikas
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Scriptures and texts
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