Uma (Javanese Kanda)

Created from a kastuba leaf by Guru. After resisting him she is transformed and named Kali Durga, later appointed ruler of Naraka as Yama Dipati.

Variant accounts

• Manifestation accountThe Kanda synopsis describes creation by Guru rather than birth to a biological parental pair.Thomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java, second edition (1830), vol.I pp.418–428: synopsis of the Kanda (secondary)
• Created and initially treated as a daughterGuru makes Uma from a leaf and at first regards her as a daughter; this is creation and social description, not birth. His later pursuit and her resistance are not silently recast as a biological marriage.Thomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java, second edition (1830), vol.I pp.418–428: synopsis of the Kanda (secondary)

Relations

• created by: Batara Guru (Javanese)Leaf transformation or purification in the Kanda; not biological descent.Thomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java, second edition (1830), vol.I pp.418–428: synopsis of the Kanda (secondary)
• mother of: Batara Kala (Javanese Kanda)Thomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java, second edition (1830), vol.I pp.418–428: synopsis of the Kanda (secondary)
• mother of: Maha PralayaThomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java, second edition (1830), vol.I pp.418–428: synopsis of the Kanda (secondary)
• consort in account: Batara Kala (Javanese Kanda)Manek Maya makes transformed Uma/Durga Kala’s consort; the Kanda instead describes her as his mother.Thomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java (1830), vol.II Appendix H, chapters I–III, pp.cxii–cxix: Manek Maya (secondary)

Sources

• Created from a kastuba leaf by Guru. After resisting him she is transformed and named Kali Durga, later appointed ruler of Naraka as Yama Dipati.: Thomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java, second edition (1830), vol.I pp.418–428: synopsis of the Kanda (secondary)