Mahadevi
Hindu · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Supreme Goddess, the primordial Shakti underlying and animating all deities
Domains
- primordial power
- cosmic illusion
Powers
- Cast and withdraw the cosmic illusion that binds beings
- Manifest as the many goddess-forms from her own substance
Epithets
- आदिशक्ति 'The Primordial Power'Devī Māhātmya (Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa) (primary)
- महामाया 'The Great Illusion' who binds the cosmosDevī Māhātmya 1.40 (Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa) (primary)
- दुर्गा 'The Inaccessible One'Devī Māhātmya; Lalitā Sahasranāma (primary)
Sources
- existence: Devi Mahatmya (primary); Devi-Bhagavata Purana (primary)