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The regional goddesses venerated in Hinduism are generally syncretised with Parvati, Lakshmi, or Adi Parashakti. Some of the major goddesses revered in modern Hinduism include: Yogamaya or Vindhyavasini, the embodiment of Vishnu's divine energy; Shakambhari, a goddess of vegetation; Sati, the first consort of Shiva and previous birth of Parvati.
Aditi (Sanskrit: अदिति, lit. 'boundless' or 'limitless' [a] or 'innocence' [2]) is an important Vedic goddess in Hinduism. She is the personification of the sprawling infinite and vast cosmos. She is the goddess of motherhood, consciousness, unconsciousness, the past, the future, and fertility. [4]
An author says that she stays even after Shiva (who is Maha-kala) ("Great Time" or "Great Death") disappears, thus she is "the Power of Time", and considered to be beyond time and space. [27] Dhumavati represents ultimate destruction, the smoke that rises after the universe is destroyed. [19] [27] The goddess' name "Dhumavati" means the "smoky ...
Mahakali (Sanskrit: महाकाली, romanized: Mahākālī) is the Hindu goddess of time and death in the goddess-centric tradition of Shaktism. She is also known as the supreme being in various Tantras and Puranas. Similar to Kali, Mahakali is a fierce goddess associated with universal power, time, life, death, and both rebirth and ...
Kali (/ ˈ k ɑː l iː /; Sanskrit: काली, IAST: Kālī) (Bengali: কালী), also called Kalika, is a major goddess in Hinduism, primarily associated with time, death and destruction. The origins of Kali can be traced to the pre-Vedic and Vedic era Goddess worship traditions in Ancient India . [ 1 ]
Karuṇā (Sanskrit: करुणा) is generally translated as compassion or mercy and sometimes as self-compassion or spiritual longing. [1] It is a significant spiritual concept in the Indic religions of Hinduism , Buddhism , Sikhism , and Jainism .
Parvati, locally spelled as Parwati, is a principal goddess in modern-day Hinduism of Bali. She is more often called Uma, and sometimes referred to as Giriputri (daughter of the mountains). [105] She is the goddess of mountain Gunung Agung. [106] Like Hinduism of India, Uma has many manifestations in Bali, Indonesia. She is married to deity ...
The Navadurga, the nine forms of the goddess Durga. The Matrikas, a group of seven mother-goddesses. Meenakshi, a regional form of Parvati. Kamakshi, goddess of love and devotion. Akilandeswari, found in coastal regions of India, is a goddess associated with water. [3] Annapurna, the goddess of nourishment and form of Parvati.