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| | Mahavidya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Ten Mahavidyas are known as Wisdom Goddesses. | | | Mahavidyas (Great Wisdoms) are aspects of Devi in Hinduism. | | | Befittingly thus they are referred to as the Great Goddess's of Wisdom, known in Sanskrit as the Mahavidyas. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahavidya
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| | Mahavidyas |
| | Mahavidyas is a collective name of a group of goddesses, Buddhist (Mahavanna). | | | The ten personifications of the Shakti, feminine quality, of Shiva, associated with the possession of knowledge of knowledge. |
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http://www.themystica.com/mythical-folk/articles/mahavidyas.html
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| | Badi Mata |
| | In Hinduism, Badi Mata is one of the mahavidyas. |
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http://www.portaljuice.com/badi_mata.html
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| | Mahavidyas - SourceryForge |
| | Although the Mahavidyas are said to be indulgent to their devotees, conferring boons to the favoured, they are primarily fierce in nature. | | | Secondly, the Mahavidya goddesses are independent from male gods - and, as David Kinsley notes, tend to be portrayed as dominating (even humiliating) men. | | | Although worship of the Mahavidyas does take place in a temple setting, they are primarily tantric goddesses. |
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http://sourceryforge.org/w/Mahavidyas
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| | Shree Siddheshwari Sadhana |
| | The Sadhana that is the basis of Sadhanas of the ten Mahavidyas. | | | In the Tantra scriptures the ten Mahavidyas are the most important of all deities. | | | It is said that Goddess Siddheshwari is the basic divine energy who has manifested in form of the ten Mahavidyas. |
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http://www.siddhashram.org/s20010246.shtml
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| | Kamala is the aspect of Lakshmi that is part of the Wisdom Goddesses [Mahavidyas]. | | | She is the form of Lakshmi which relates specifically to the practice of Yoga. | | | He may be mentioned, [for instance, to] say that she has "glances that please Vishnu" or [that she is] "the beloved of Vishnu," but for the most part he is absent. |
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http://shaktisadhana.50megs.com/Resource/Messageboard/kamala.html
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| | MAHAVIDYAS |
| | Students of religion say that Tara was the Goddess of worship for Brahma, Vishnu, and Buddha and later to Vasistha. | | | Another source tells that Sati asks the Mahavidyas to attend to Siva in her absence, while she is away to Daksha's sacrifice. | | | Vaishnavas worship the ten Mahavidyas with their heart abiding in me. My intention is to destroy my father's yajna with your permission; you should let me go to the sacrifice." |
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http://www.bhagavadgitausa.com.cnchost.com/MAHAVIDYAS.htm
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| | FlowYoga |
| | The Ten Mahavidyas are revealers of the truth of Tantra. | | | During that year, I spent six momths travelling through India teaching Flowyoga and visiting the sacred shrines of the Mahavidyas-the ten Wisdom Goddesses of Tantra yoga. | | | Together with my travel companions-my husband Andre and my friend Lili-we explored the mystery of tantra in the caves and mountains where the Goddesses make their home.Our adventure with the Mahavidyas required us to boldly embrace the full range of our existence: its fears, dangers, beauty and joys. |
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http://www.kailakuklayoga.com/class.htm
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| | Giving place to Mahavidya in your life means opening new avenues ot prosperity and totality and what better time can there be to propitiate the Goddesses than the beginning of a New Year. | | | There can be no doubt that it is the Mother Shakti who runs the whole world and when some danger seems too formidable to be tackled by humans or even the Gods, She manifests in an invincible form to deal with it and put an end to it. | | | What more can be said about this invincible Mahavidya who along with her 16 Shakties can subdue the most formidable of foes. |
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http://www.bhaneshwaranand.com/10_mahavidyas.htm
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| | Bagalamukhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In Hinduism, Bagalamukhi is one of the mahavidyas. | | | This is one of the boons for which Bagalamukhi’s devotees worship her. | | | Other Mahavidya goddesses are also said to represent similar powers useful for defeating enemies, to be invoked by their worshippers through various rituals. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagalamukhi
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| | Tantra and the ten Mahavidyas and Transformation of the Self |
| | Kali, Tara, Tripura Sundari, Bhuvanesvari, Chinnamasta, Bhairavi, Dhumavati, Bagalamukhi, Matangi, Kamala for the ten Mahavidyas. | | | The ten Mahavidyas are one facet of a multi faceted Great Goddess Shakti, that, they are one. | | | Tantra and the ten Mahavidyas and Transformation of the Self. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/ma/IfcTempleofLove/wayofthe.htm
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| | Dasa Mahavidyas |
| | Of the hundreds of tantrik practices, the worship of the ten major Devis is called the Dasa Mahavidya. | | | In Tantra, worship of Devi-Shakti is referred to as a Vidya. | | | The tantrik worship of these most powerful Vidyas must be practiced only under the guidence of a siddha Guru. |
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http://www.astrojyoti.com/dasamahavidyas.htm
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| | Ten Mahavidyas with Mother Kali and Tara |
| | She is the adi Mahavidya, the primordial Goddess, for She who is Knowledge of the self, She who is knowledge of Brahman, She whose form is the Highest Brahman, and the Mistress of the Mahavidyas. | | | To a Tantrika who follows ritually oriented and spiritual pragmatic, truth is reviled by her the ultimate truth, which is realized only by means of sadhana, is revealed only to adepts who worship Mother Kali |
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http://uk.geocities.com/tantraifc/mother_kali_tara.html
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| | Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas Fan Blurb |
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http://fanblurb.com/amazon/asin.0520204999.Book_Tantric_Visions_of_the_Divine_Feminine_The_Ten_Mahavidyas.html
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| | Mahavidyas Menu |
| | The Ten Mahavidyas are the most important forms of DEVI in Tantrik Hinduism. | | | For a comprehensive introduction to their iconography and meaning, click here |
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http://shaktisadhana.50megs.com/Photo%20Gallery/MahavidyaMain.html
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| | The Ten Mahavidyas : Bagalamukhi - The Paralyzer |
| | The Ten Mahavidyas : Shodashi - She Who is Lovely in the Three Worlds | | | The Ten Mahavidyas : Bhuvaneshwari - She Whose Body is the World | | | The Ten Mahavidyas : Matangi - The Outcaste Goddess |
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http://www.exoticindiaart.com/product/BD66
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| | MAHAVIDYAS |
| | I am the ferrywoman goddess, who transports her devotee across the waters, dispensing of all formal and traditional forms of practices and beliefs. | | | As Bhairavi I am the sixth of the Mahavidyas. | | | As Shodashi I am the third of the Mahavidyas. |
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http://www.yoginiashram.net/YOGINIS/MAHAVIDYAS/body_mahavidyas.html
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| | iskcon.com - ISKCON Communications Journal - ICJ |
| | Written for students of comparative religion and the general reader, and drawing on the chapters originally edited by Jean Holm and John Bowker in the Themes in Religious Studies series, the volumes in World Religions: Themes and Issues explore core themes from the perspective of the particular religious tradition under study. | | | Kinsley not only describes the eccentric qualities of each of these goddesses but seeks to interpret the Mahavidyas as a group and to explain their importance for understanding Tantra and the Hindu tradition. | | | Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas |
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http://www.iskcon.com/icj/7_1/71books.html
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| | MahaVidia Temple in Tamil Nadu, South India |
| | For years, Sri Param has been worshiping the Mahavidyas, and over the past few years, he has been presenting to the world a new way of using the Mantras of the Maha Vidyas for the purpose of LOVE and healing or what he calls "the Divine Dance of Love.". | | | It is they and Sri Param who has been there for me, in the time of need, on the day of the even, not knowing what was happening got my name inscribed on a Sri Chakra at Mother Kali's Temple, I do not know if it was providence or what. | | | With this experience in Sri Lanka, I am extremely committed to worshiping the Mahavidya, and this feeling has become stronger, and serving the needy kids in Killangkulam. |
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http://www.tantric-goddess.org/article_from_devanayagi.html
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| | Daily Prayer April 30, 2003 |
| | For those who were not there I am sending the pictures so you can feel the beauty of being on Kashi in the afternoon sun and be blessed by the Mother Kali in all her many forms. | | | The beauty of Interfaith is that any form of the Mother, in any religion, can be placed on any altar to the Mahavidyas. | | | The other Divine forms have many names; Kali, Tara, Sodashi, Bhuvanesvari, Chinnamasta, Bhairavi, Dhumavati, Bagala, Matangi, and Kamala are the line that we follow here at Kashi. |
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http://www.kashi.org/Prayers/p043003.htm
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| | Many worshippers of the MahAvidyAs assert that the DM tells of the origin of the mahavidyas during the goddess' battle with shumbha and nishumbha ##6, p. | | | It is, then, scarcely surprising that there are echoes of the DM in worship; there are also aspects of many other major shakti texts Turning to the use of the DM itself, rather than simply of the ideas it encapsulates, it becomes clear that the text itself is used as a source of legitimacy. | | | Howley & Wulff) (5) A. Ostor - the play of the gods: locality, ideology structure and time in the festivals of a Bengali town (6) TB Coburn - Mahavidyas |
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http://www.ohuiginn.net/year2/030504DeviMahatmyaEssay.txt
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| | Mahavidyas Paintings : various forms of Devi in pictures |
| | The Mahavidyas are ten particular forms of the Divine Mother, in which she represented herself in different yugas and on different occasions and her forms before she again became Uma, the wife of Lord Shiva. | | | If you would like to know more on Kali click "The Hindu Goddess Kali". | | | The Mahavidyas represent some or other incarnation or manifestation of the Divine Mother. |
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http://www.sanatansociety.com/indian_art_galleries/hgs_mahavidyas_paintings.htm
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| | HR Contents: Vol. 39, No. 3 |
| | STEPHEN F. David Kinsley, Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas |
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http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/HR/v39n3toc.html
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| | Hindu Gods - Kali |
| | The Hindu goddess Kali is the first of the ten Mahavidyas - the others are Tara, Shodashi, Bhuvaneshwari, Bhairavi, Chinnamasta and Dhumavati, Matangi, Kamala and Bagla Mukhi. | | | Kali also is the Kundalini energy that paralyses the attachments produced by the solar and lunar currents (both demons). | | | Therefore Kali is also known as Adya, the firstborn. |
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http://www.indhistory.com/hindu-gods/hindu-gods-kali.html
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| | Shri Yantra and the Mahavidyas Temple Project |
| | We are also building 54 individual temples which will house the Mahavidyas, the Goddesses and Gods forming the trinity, the element Gods and Goddess, and many other Tantric Goddesses and Gods. | | | All visitors can also perform puja to their desired deity, rather then just being mere spectators. | | | We welcome you to join us in building a Shri Yantra and Mahavidya temple at 118/1b Killankulam Village, Periyur Taluk, Madurai Dist, South India |
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http://www.tantric-goddess.org/ifc_temple_project.htm
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| | The Todala Tantra |
| | The last chapter equates Vishnu's ten incarnations with the ten Mahavidyas. | | | Many tantras, particularly those associated with Bengal, speak of ten major aspects of the goddess, the Mahavidyas. | | | Vidya means knowledge but in the tradition this word is synonymous with both a Devi and her mantra form. |
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http://www.shivashakti.com/todabst.htm
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| | Blogger: Email Post to a Friend |
| | I made these yantras of Dasa Mahavidyas or the ten great knowledges, long back. | | | I am sharing this for those who are interested. | | | The dasa mahavidyas are signified by the 9 planets and the Lagna, which are also given below. |
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http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=7407444&postID=109538182629207826
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| | Badi Mata |
| | One of the ten mahavidyas in Hindu mythology. | | | Article created on 30 November 1997; last modified on 30 November 1997. |
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http://www.pantheon.org/articles/b/badi_mata.html
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| | Dhumavati |
| | In Hinduism, Dhumavati is one the of mahavidyas (Great Wisdoms); she is one of the many aspects of Devi. | | | She acts as the divine smoke screen in the form of old age and death. |
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http://www.omniknow.com/common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Dhumavati
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| | Definition of Mandala |
| | Taking the definitions above in consideration, Mahavidya is literally translated to mean "supreme wisdom." Mahavidyas are representative of the ten dominant Hindu goddesses. | | | A visual mantra — a symbol or icon — particulary of a goddess (devi) in geometric form |
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http://whats-your-sign.com/definition-of-mandala.html
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| | textengjapa |
| | Kali, Tara and Shodashi are the 3 main vidyas of the 10 Mahavidyas. | | | The 10 Mahavidyas are the 10 cosmic forms of the Divine Mother in which she manifested herself to free the world of evil. | | | As Shodashi she is , free of the fear of death and of the turmoil of emotion. |
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http://users.telenet.be/ayurveda/textengjapa.html
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| | Mahavidyas |
| | Her consort is Shiva as Bhuvaeshvara the lord of the world or Shiva Natraja the lord of the dance | | | Hrim can also be used for all the Mahavidyas, Kali, Tara, Durga etc. You can use the mantra Ma with Bhuvaneshvari as well, this mantra MA can be used with al the Goddesses in what ever forms. |
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http://community-2.webtv.net/Isis_Re/Mahavidyas/page4.html
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| | Chinnamastaka - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Chinnamastaka |
| | In Hinduism, Chinnamastaka (or Chinnamasta) is one of the mahavidyas and an aspect of Devi. | | | In art, she is usually depicted holding her head with one hand. | | | If you find this encyclopedia or its sister projects useful, |
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http://www.encyclopedia-glossary.com/en/Chinnamastaka.html
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| | Das Mahavidyas Tara KALI shiva chinnmasta bhairavi kundlaini |
| | Kali is therefore the mahavidya that removes the avidya (ignorance) that makes us fear death. | | | She is the first mahavidya and also known as Adya (the first born) - one of the names used for Kundalini Shakti. | | | The cremation ground, Kali's dwelling place, denotes a place where the five elements (panca mahabhuta) are dissolved. |
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http://kaalchakra0.tripod.com/id52.html
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| | The Goddess in the Tantrik Tradition |
| | This goddess obliterates waste left at the end of puja.She is also known as Ucchishta Chandali and is worshipped as such by adherents of Shri Vidya. | | | Dakshina Kalika is the most famous of the tantrik Devis and first of the ten Mahavidyas. | | | Her name means "beheaded" and she is the fifth of the famous ten Mahavidyas. |
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http://www.shivashakti.com/goddess.htm
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| | Kalipuja Kalighat Mahavidyas |
| | Known for the divine power of Ma Kali the first of the Mahavidyas, the famous Kalighat Temple is the abode of Ma Kali as well as Lord Shiva. | | | The following has been done for the benefit of the masses by the Blessings of Goddess Kali and Lord Shiva and will continue to be there for service. | | | You may send your Puja request online in your Name to |
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http://www.kalipuja.org
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| | Samayapuram (Inter Faith)Temple in India |
| | Most temple in India focus on prayers conducted by the priest, rather then one where all the participants have equal opportunity to participate and learn the right way of prayers. | | | One sector of the temple will be devoted for performing Agni Homa. | | | Homa, which will be preformed daily devoted to all the Mahavidyas and the Nityas of the moon. |
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http://interfaith_centre.tripod.com/Samayapuram_temple.html
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| | Home Page |
| | The Goddess ParaShakti has many attributes and at Tantrism eGroup we look at the deeper meaning of Shakti worship esp. of KaliMa + the 10 MahaVidyas. | | | As Sanathana Dharma is the path of the vedas, the upanisads and the values of all paths, these subjects will be discussed with an added tantric yoga perspective. | | | Please note that this site is not for those seeking tantric partners. |
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http://tantrism.chaosmagic.com
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| | Mahavidyas |
| | His mind was also absorbed by the Great Goddess as well. | | | As a Mahavidya and as the second manifestation Tara has similiar features and attributes of Kali. | | | In Hinduim as a Mahavidya she is often seen as violent and terrible even though she is seen as benign at times. |
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http://community-2.webtv.net/Isis_Re/Mahavidyas/page2.html
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| | mahavidyas10 |
| | The ten Mahavidyas, each with her yantra for meditation, in modern Madhubani style | | | The ten Mahavidyas, painted by Vidya Devi and Dhirendra Jha | | | On the website, the goddesses are identified as follows: |
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http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1600_1699/tantra/mahavidyas10/mahavidyas10.html
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| | Dasha Mahavidyas |
| | Dasha Mahavidya means the ' Ten Great Knowledges'. | | | The Goddess, who represents creation on all levels, possess this same diversity, which is expressed through her Ten Wisdom Forms (Dasha Mahavidya) and their different functions. | | | They represent the various principles, energies and faculties which make up this great universe, manifest and unmanifest. |
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http://harsha17.topcities.com/ten.htm
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| | Goddess Durga: the Female Form as the Supreme Being |
| | Hindu religious texts also talk about the existence of the Ten Great Feminine Cosmic Powers (Dasha Mahavidyas) which basically can be thought to be the ten fundamental aspects of the Supreme Cosmic Mother's personality. | | | In her role as the cosmic queen, warrior goddess and demon slayer, Durga in effect protects herself in her aspect as the earth itself. | | | Nevertheless, each Goddess has a specific cosmic function in the universal harmony. |
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http://www.dollsofindia.com/library/article0008/2
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| | 2002/01/28 12:54-Laura -Re: [K-list] Yantra of all Mahavidyas |
| | >I want to know if there is a Yantra of all Mahavidyas. | | | >I know there is a Yantra for each Mahavidya, but is there also a Yantra of | | | Feel free to submit any questions you might have about what you read here to the Kundalini mailing list moderators, and/or the author (if given). |
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http://www.kundalini-gateway.org/klist/k2002/k200200424.html
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