Kalasamkarshini
कालसंकर्षिणी Kālasaṃkarṣiṇī'She who draws Time in', the highest form of Kali in the Krama and in the Jayadrathayamala: the goddess who withdraws kala, time itself, into herself. Also written Kalasankarshini.
Where this term appears
- The 64 Śākta Tantras Lineages
The 64 Śākta Tantras are the Goddess-centred tantric scriptures, named in a famous verse of the Saundaryalaharī. The number 64 is a traditional and symbolic…
- The Krama: the school that worshipped a sequence Lineages
The presiding goddess of the whole Kalikula is Kalasamkarshini, whose name means something like she who draws in, or devours, time.