Haimavati
हैमवती haimavatī'Daughter of Himavat', the snow-mountain - an epithet of Parvati, and the name under which she appears in the Kena Upanishad as the goddess who reveals Brahman to Indra.
Where this term appears
- Who is Parvati? Deities
…ेतद्यक्षमिति ॥ sa tasminn evākāśe striyam ājagāma bahuśobhamānām umāṃ haimavatīm; tāṃ hovāca kim etad yakṣam iti "In that very space he came upon a woman, greatly shining: Uma Haimavati.
- Who is the Goddess? Deities
Then, in the third and fourth sections of the text, a radiant woman appears: Uma Haimavati, Uma daughter of the mountain.
- What is Shaktism? Lineages
Then, in the third and fourth sections, a radiant woman appears, Uma Haimavati, Uma the daughter of the mountain, and she alone knows what the spirit was.
- The Kena Upanishad: by whom? Treatise
The survey position is honest here: the tradition holds her to be the Goddess; the record shows a woman named Uma Haimavati, appearing once, knowing everything, and the earliest such figure in the corpus.