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From IndiaDivine.org:
"Devi Mahatmyam is an Upapurana in the Markandeya Purana.Composed some
1500 years ago, it is the first comprehensive account of the Goddess
in Sanskrit. It has maintained its centrality in the Saktha tradition
to the present day. The outstanding feature of Devi Mahatmyam is its
vision that the ultimate reality is understood as female, as the
Goddess.
For the first time a new Goddess is created. MAA CHANDI. She is the
central figure in the entire epic. MAHAA KALI, MAHAA LAKSHMI and MAHAA
SARASWATHI are the main Deities in the epic.
One of the most interesting points to be noted is that the Epic
acknowledges all the Gods and Goddesses in the Hindu pantheon. MAA
CHANDI is the combination of the sakthi or power of all the Gods and
Goddesses in the Hindu religion. Thus the epic is unique in the sense
that it is not against Saivism or Vaishnavism.
In the first chapter she is called Vishnu Maya. In the epic it is
Vishnu who slays Madhu and Kaitabha through his Sakthi or Power, which
is Vishnu Maya."
If there be Three, then two against one smacks of a Democratic solution.
"Devi Mahatmyam is an Upapurana in the Markandeya Purana.Composed some
1500 years ago, it is the first comprehensive account of the Goddess
in Sanskrit. It has maintained its centrality in the Saktha tradition
to the present day. The outstanding feature of Devi Mahatmyam is its
vision that the ultimate reality is understood as female, as the
Goddess.
For the first time a new Goddess is created. MAA CHANDI. She is the
central figure in the entire epic. MAHAA KALI, MAHAA LAKSHMI and MAHAA
SARASWATHI are the main Deities in the epic.
One of the most interesting points to be noted is that the Epic
acknowledges all the Gods and Goddesses in the Hindu pantheon. MAA
CHANDI is the combination of the sakthi or power of all the Gods and
Goddesses in the Hindu religion. Thus the epic is unique in the sense
that it is not against Saivism or Vaishnavism.
In the first chapter she is called Vishnu Maya. In the epic it is
Vishnu who slays Madhu and Kaitabha through his Sakthi or Power, which
is Vishnu Maya."
If there be Three, then two against one smacks of a Democratic solution.