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chapter II Major goddesses 61 the female divinities acquired their influence. It is true that the
worship of Goddesses did not form the core of the religion in the RV.
But, still never the less female divinities played no less a significant
role in the Vedic religion'.
The goddesses have been categorized into two chapters as
principal goddesses and as minor goddesses. The basis of this
categorization is their importance and popularity level. In the chapter
on the major goddesses, two major sections for study have been
identified and undertaken for study. They are (i) Vedic goddesses and
(ii) Later Vedic goddesses.
Five important goddesses have been taken up for the
purpose of study. The study will look at the various aspects of the
making of a 'Devi' into a 'Mah膩devi' ie. a 'Goddess into a 'Major
Goddess.'
Many concepts and abstractions make a divinity. These
together form the special form or the functional aspect of the divinity.
Sometimes, the divinity is associated with certain attributes which are
specific to the particular goddesses and are used as her adjectives. It
is observed that deities tend to overlap their adjectives. A single
adjective may be common to a number of deities. On the basis of the
commonness in function, deed, juxta position of occurrence, they all
have been clubbed together as different manifestations of a single
divinity. The basis of categorizing the five Major Goddesses into two
groups is on the basis of their popularity among the masses and the
Agrawala P.K. Goddesses in Ancient India.
A.A. MacDonnell Vedic Mythology (Strasburg 1897) P.125
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