Essay name: Goddesses from the Samhitas to the Sutras
Author:
Rajeshri Goswami
Affiliation: Jadavpur University / Department of Sanskrit
This essay studies the Goddesses from the Samhitas to the Sutras. In short, this thesis examines Vedic goddesses by analyzing their images, functions, and social positions. It further details how natural and abstract elements were personified as goddesses, whose characteristics evolved with societal changes.
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She was invoked to give her consent to the student's pursuit,
and to tuck up the garment of the devotee so that he may study the
Vedas for the attainment of insight and balles, and also so that he
may not forget what he has learnt for the sake of the attainment of
87 holiness and holy lustre:
88.
She is supplicated to shave the beard, and to purify the
face she
89 is invoked to cut the hair of the child and is prayed to
90 She is beseeched to shave the hair of the
out the boy's hair
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worshipper?1
She supports all, and is looked upon as the protector of
gods, celestial minstrels, men, departed ancestors, demora and
others.
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94 She is the mother of the gods, and also of all." She is the
95 mother of noble sons, and she personifies all that exists, father,
96 mother, child, ete.
86 GGS I : 311, JC6 I 1 3. KGS I ; 2 : 17,
87 HGS I : 1:8.
HGS I 1:6.
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88 MGS I, 21:14.
82 8 89
PGS II : 116.
90 AGS I i 1717.
91 JGS I : 11.
92 Ma帽膩 2 Up XXVIII :1, ASS II : 1:1.
93 Mah膩 N Up 2811.
94 232
Ass I & 3:3, BSS II # 13 110:32.
ASS
Sankh GS I ; 1216, Satya SS I # 127:24.
96 AA III - 1:6.
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