Gauri
गौरी gaurī'The fair one' - a benign form and common name of Parvati, worshipped in the Gauri puja and the Mangala Gauri vrata, and invoked especially in vows concerning marriage and the household.
Where this term appears
- Who is Parvati? Deities
We do not know where the name Uma comes from. She is Gauri , the fair one, whose name her festivals carry.
- A city made of gods Treatise
The tradition counts nine forms of Gauri , the bright goddess, and nine of Durga , the fierce one, set as circuits of shrines through the city, so that the Goddess too rings the centre in nines, her own concent…
- A walk down the ghats Treatise
Here stands Gauri-Kedareshwar , Shiva in the very form he wears at Kedarnath, the great shrine high in the Himalayas that most pilgrims can never reach.
- The power in the phoneme Treatise
The reading is reinforced twice over, by so umesa in the next chaupāī and by the favour of hara gauri in dohā 15.
- The verse that was never about mantras Treatise
…जो कहेउँ सब भाषा भनिति प्रभाउ॥१५॥ sapanehũ sācehũ mohi para jauṁ hara gauri pasāu, tau phura hou jo kaheũ saba bhāṣā bhaniti prabhāu If in dream and in waking Hara and Gaurī are gracious to me, then let all I h…
- Vācā, phuro, ājñā Treatise
…जो कहेउँ सब भाषा भनिति प्रभाउ॥१५॥ sapanehũ sācehũ mohi para jauṁ hara gauri pasāu, tau phura hou jo kaheũ saba bhāṣā bhaniti prabhāu If in dream and in waking Hara and Gaurī are gracious to me, then let all I h…