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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 ...
Mahākāla (Sanskrit: महाकाल, pronounced [mɐɦaːˈkaːlɐ]) is a deity common to Hinduism and Buddhism. [1]In Buddhism, Mahākāla is regarded as a Dharmapāla ("Protector of the Dharma") and a wrathful manifestation of a Buddha, while in Hinduism, Mahākāla is a fierce manifestation of the Hindu god Shiva and the consort of the goddess Mahākālī; [1] he most prominently ...
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.
Thus, in 1113 CE, Acharya Aryarakshitsuri founded the Anchalgacch (or Viddhipaksh) at Pavagadh, and installed demi-goddess Mahakali as the Adhishthayika (transl. protecting deity) of the gaccha. The founder Śrāvakas of the gaccha installed the idol of Mahakali on the hill to mark their respects. This is the idol and the shrine which was later ...
The Kali yantra is worshipped at Pavagadh's Kalika Mata Temple.. Dating from the 10th-11th centuries, Kalika Mata is the oldest temple in the area. [citation needed] According to R. K. Trivedi in Fairs and Festivals of Gujarat (1961), the goddess Kalika Mata was initially worshipped by the local Bhil and Koli People, [10] When the toe of devi sati fell at the Pavagadh's highest tip at that ...
Trishanku (Hindi pronunciation: [triʃəŋkũ]) is a 1945 collection of reflective essays in Hindi language by the Indian writer Sachchidananda Vatsyayan (pen name Agyeya), that mostly deals with the concept of Indian and Western poetics. [1]
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Bhadrakali (IAST: Bhadrakālī; lit. ' auspicious Kali ' [2]) is a Hindu goddess.She is considered to be the auspicious and fortunate form of Adi Shakti who protects the good, known as Bhadra.