devi-mahatmya

The Devi Mahatmya , the "Glory of the Goddess," also called the Durga Saptashati , sits embedded in the Markandeya Purana .

Its name is the Devi Mahatmya , the "Glory of the Goddess," also called the Durga Saptashati , the "seven hundred verses of Durga," and recited simply as the Chandi .

Cynthia Humes, studying the great Goddess text the Devi Mahatmya in the field, found that its male reciters did not draw feminist conclusions from it.

It was folded into a larger work, the Markandeya Purana , as its chapters 81 to 93, and it took on a life of its own. Hindus call it the Devi Mahatmya , the Glory of the Goddess.

There is a moment in the Devi Mahatmya , the great scripture of the Goddess, that turns the usual order of things upside down.

Born from wrath Kali enters the great scripture of the Goddess, the Devi Mahatmya , as a weapon of the supreme Devi.

In chapter 5 of the Devi Mahatmya , the gods, oppressed by Shumbha and Nishumbha, come to the Himalaya to praise the Goddess.

…a lion, and went to do what the male gods could not. That text is the Devi Mahatmya.