Devi Mahatmyam is seen as an attempt to unify the Vedic male pantheon with the pre-existing mother goddess worship possibly dating to the 9th millennium BCE, and an attempt to define divinity as a shakti, which takes form of the female gender, and that pervades all beings and non-beings and yet is transcendental. By far one of the most important texts of Shaktism, the text has a central place in Shakta ritual. The text contains saptashata 'seven hundred' verses, arranged into 13 chapters. Devi Mahatmyam is also known as the Durg Saptashat or simply Saptashat, Ca or Ca Pha : pha 'reading' refers to the act of ritual reading. It was composed in Sanskrit around CE, with authorship attributed to the sage Rishi Markandeya. Devi Mahatmyam Full Tamil With Meaning Pdf 2017Īs part of the Markandeya Purana, it is one of the Puranas or secondary Hindu scriptures.
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