ARARITA

Durga 1830s place of production India

Siva circa 1850

DHUMAVATI ( धुमावती) - महाविद्या MAHAVIDYA series

Artist: Bijay Biswaal. Acriylic on Canvas 48x36 inches

“The cow as mother of the world: with…deities all over (her) body.” n.d.

The Goddess Kali in a Traditional Pose, Sri Hemchandra Das. Woodcut print on paper.

Mahākāḷī the Devourer of Time, Hindu goddess of destruction, of doomsday and both rebirth and liberation. Y.G. Simatri ~ 1980

Yantras for the “Mahavidyas” (”Great Wisdom”) Goddesses. These are mandalas for meditation whose geometric forms encode the attributes of the deity they represent.

To work with these images you should visualize them drawn on the ground in front of you. Imagine yourself entering through one of the four gates, and then move through the structure to the center point (Bindu).

The Goddesses shown also represent the ten cardinal directions surrounding a central point, and are the counterpart to the male “Guardians of the Directions”.

The yantras shown are, in order:

Kali (”Eternal All-Devouring Night, The Dark One Outside Time”).

Tara (”The Compassionate Star, our Guiding Light”).

Tripura Sundari (”Goddess of the 3 Worlds, 16 year old playful Lalita”).

Bhuvaneswari (”Queen and Creatrix, whose body is the Universe”).

Bhairavi (”Awe-inspiring, beyond the fear of death”).

Chinnamasta (”She who severs her own head”).

Dhumavati (”She who widows herself, the Smoky One”).

Bagalamukhi (”She who makes you silent”).

Matangi (”The wild, passionate and unclean one”).

Kamalatmika (”Last but not Least, the Lotus of Desire”).

దత్త పాశుపతం :-

ఓం ద్రాం నమశ్వ్శ భ్య శ్మ్వ పతి భ్యశ్చవో నమః

విధానం :- అన్నాభిషేకం , గురుచరిత్ర పారాయణ, దత్త అష్టోత్తర పూజ , పులిహోర నైవేద్యం, నాలుగు కుక్కలకు అభిషేకాన్నం తినిపించడం .