Mahavidya
महाविद्या mahāvidyāThe ten 'great wisdom' goddesses, from radiant Tripurasundari to fierce Kali and the headless Chinnamasta, read as a spectrum of the one Goddess.
Where this term appears
- Who is Kali? Deities
In the Tantric reckoning of the Dasha Mahavidya , the ten great forms of wisdom of the Goddess, Kali stands first, the foremost of them all, the form from which the others are often said to flow.
- Who is the Goddess? Deities
Within that section the text describes the ten Mahavidyas, the ten "great wisdom" goddesses, from radiant Tripurasundari to the terrifying Kali and the headless Chinnamasta.
- Kamakhya: The Temple of the Goddess Temples
Around the main shrine stand temples to the ten Mahavidyas , the "Great Wisdom" goddesses, a complete set that is rare anywhere in India.
- The 64 Śākta Tantras Lineages
This is the stream that fed the ten Mahavidyas and the worship of Kali.
- The Shatkarma: The Six Acts of Tantric Magic Lineages
Among the ten Mahavidyas, the ten great forms of the Devi, the fierce ones carry the destructive acts.
- What is Shaktism? Lineages
Shaktism is the major stream of Hinduism whose followers, called Shaktas, hold that ultimate reality is feminine: the Goddess, Devi or Shakti, is not a consort of a…
- What is Tantra? Lineages
Across these traditions stand the ten Mahavidyas , the ten "great wisdoms," a constellation of Goddess forms from the radiant to the fearsome.
- Bagalamukhi: The Stiller of Tongues Treatise
The eighth Mahavidya is the colour of turmeric and the noon sun, and where Dhumavati trembles, she is utterly still.