Uma
उमा umāA name of Parvati, and the name under which she first appears in Sanskrit literature - as Uma Haimavati in the Kena Upanishad, where she teaches the gods that their victory was Brahman's and not their own.
Where this term appears
- Who is Parvati? Deities
…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
Müller) Umam haimavatim, bahushobhamanam. Uma, daughter of the Himalaya, shining.
- The verse that was never about mantras Treatise
The four lines from the *Rāmcaritmānas* quoted everywhere as the charter of *śābara* mantras are, in their own setting, a poet's argument for his own book. They…