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PāRvatī : Hindu Terms
45 words, approx. 1 pages
one of the names or incarnations (as the daughter of Himavat) of Umā, the wife of Śiva. Some Śāktas see in her a form of the Goddess, a representation of , and style her Jagadmātā, the mother of the universe (cf. the Vedic...
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PāRvatī : Gods and Goddesses , Devil and Demons
38 words, approx. 1 pages
(‘daughter of the mountains’) The wife of the Hindu god → Śiva, the daughter of → Himavat, king of the mountains. Her son was the war-god Karttikeya (→ Skanda). Pārvatī merges into the better-known goddess...
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Parvati (Sanskrit: Pārvatī, पार्वती), sometimes spelled Parvathi or Parvathy, is a Hindu goddess and nominally the second consort of Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction and rejuvenation. However, she is not different from Satī, being...


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