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  2. Rati - Wikipedia

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    The Hindu scriptures stress Rati's beauty and sensuality. They depict her as a maiden who has the power to enchant the God of Love. When the deity Shiva burns her husband to ashes, it is Rati, whose beseeching or penance, leads to the promise of Kama's resurrection.

  3. Radha - Wikipedia

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    According to William Archer and David Kinsley, a professor of Religious Studies known for his studies on Hindu goddesses, the Radha-Krishna love story is a metaphor for a divine-human relationship, where Radha is the human devotee or soul who is frustrated with the past, obligations to social expectations, and the ideas she inherited, who then ...

  4. Shanti Mantras - Wikipedia

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    May peace radiate there in the whole sky as well as in the vast ethereal space everywhere. May peace reign all over this earth, in water and in all herbs, trees and creepers. May peace flow over the whole universe. May peace be in the Whole Universe. And may there always exist in all peace and peace alone. Om peace, peace and peace to us and ...

  5. List of Hindu deities - Wikipedia

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    Kamadeva, also called Manmatha, is the god of love, a son of Vishnu. Rati is the goddess of love and pleasure, the consort of Kamadeva. Garuda is the eagle demigod mount of Vishnu. Shesha is the serpent demigod mount of Vishnu. Nandi is the bull mount of Shiva. Vasuki is the second king of the nagas .

  6. Karuṇā - Wikipedia

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    The verse maitrī-karuṇā-muditopekṣaṇāṃ sukha-duḥkha-puṇyāpuṇya-viṣayāṇāṃ bhāvanātaś citta-prasādanam advocates for the cultivation of friendliness (Maitri), compassion (Karuna), joy (Mudita), and equanimity (Upeksha) in response to life's dualities: happiness (Sukha) and suffering (Duhkha), as well as moral virtue ...

  7. Ambika (goddess) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Aditi - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Priti (goddess) - Wikipedia

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    Thus propitiated, the goddess appeared before Priti and prescribed her a ritual that would restore her youth and allow her to gain a husband. As Priti performed the ritual, Parvati encouraged Kamadeva to meet the newly youthful Priti, causing him to fall in love with her. When Kamadeva proposes marriage, Priti asks him to seek her father's consent.