Shakta pitha
शाक्तपीठ sakta pithaA 'seat' of the Goddess: a sacred site where, in the myth, a part of Sati's body fell when her corpse was scattered. Kamakhya in Assam is among the most important.
Where this term appears
- The Four Streams of Hinduism Essentials
Across the whole subcontinent the tradition maps the Goddess onto the land through the Shakta pithas , the seats where, the tradition holds, parts of her body fell, commonly counted as fifty-one.
- What are the Shakti Peethas? Temples
Sircar's The Sakta Pithas , first published in 1948 and revised for Motilal Banarsidass in 1973.
- Kali: The Black Mother of Time Treatise
… Assam: Dakshineswar and Kalighat in and beside Kolkata, the latter a Shakta pitha , draw vast devotion, and Kali Puja on the new-moon night of the Diwali season is among the great Bengali festivals.
- The Goddess Who Would Not Be Forbidden Treatise
…er corpse, and the scattering of her body across the land to make the Shakta pithas , the seats of the Goddess, are the sequel that the wider tradition tells and that this treatise's companion work on the pitha…
- A city made of gods Treatise
…shi , "the wide-eyed one", in a shrine the tradition counts among the Shakta Pithas , the sacred sites scattered across the subcontinent where, in the great myth of the dismembered Sati, a part of the Goddess's…
- The body of the city Treatise
The far-flung jyotirlingas , the shakta pithas , the tirthas of the south, all are held to have their representatives gathered into this single city, as if the sacred map of the country had been drawn once at f…
- The jewelled earring Treatise
…ing this story with the great myth of the dismembered Goddess and the Shakta Pithas.