Essay name: Devi Tantra, Mantra, Yantra (study)
Author:
Srider Basudevan Iyer
Affiliation: University of Mumbai / Sanskrit, University Department
This essay studies the history of Devi (the Goddess) in relation with worship using Tantra, Yantra and Mantra. The study explores the concept of the 'Female Principle' or Goddess, examining her role and significance in ancient Indian society.
Chapter 2 - The Maior Goddesses
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External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)
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chapter II Major goddesses 176 broken) out of white dhan, chipi峁璦k of table rice (膩lo-chal) white
modaka, Havisy膩nna prepared of boiled rice with clarified butter and
salt, pi峁aka of jao or wheat flour, paramanna with ghee, nectar like
sweet meats, coconut, coconut water, svastik pi峁ａ弓tka, svastik and ripe
plantain, kesaru-root, ginger-mula, excellent fruit of wood-apple,
jujube fruit and other appropriate white purified fruits of the season
and peculiar to that place are offered.
In the MLRK 330 it is stated that the supreme goddess 艢r墨 is
to be contemplated as Sarasvati and worship should be offered to her
as such. This worship bestows speech to the dumb and eloquence to
the learned. The s盲dhaka has to wear white clothes and should
maintain strict Brahmacharya and worship the goddess with white
flowers and make an offering of white things such as curds, milk and
water etc...
Iconographic details.
Sarasvati is referred to as being eight armed and so called
as Mah膩sarasvati. She holds the following accessories in her hands
they are - a bell, a pickaxe, plough, conch shell, musala -a sort of
short stout club or mace, the discuss, Bow and arrows 331.
330 MLRK Ch. XXVI. 13,14
331 DBP BK 9 C.50
