Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Hind. Myth.) The divine energy, personified as the wife of a deity (Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, etc.); the female principle.
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- noun the female or generative principle; wife of Siva and a benevolent form of Devi
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Examples
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'knowledge, strength, and action' no less than 'sakti'; and your explanation would necessitate so-called implication (lakshanâ).
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881
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Eight figures are identified as ashta sakti, or female energies of the gods.
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Sri Sinha-sinha — This lion-headed goddess, with the lion headed-man on her pedestal, is probably intended forNarasinha, the sakti or female energy of theNarasinha avatara.
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Sri Ahkhala — On the pedestal two men with folded hands worship this seated sakti goddess.
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Sri Iswari — This seated yogini represents sakti, or female energy, either Durga or Lakshmi.
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A standing sakti goddess who is known as one of the “eight powers of Durga.”
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Sri Vaishnavi is the name of the sakti, or personified energy of Vishnu.
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Târâ, the sakti of the deliverer of the world, the fourth Dhyâni Buddha,
Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java Thomas H. Reid
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And if they say that it is only the power (sakti), not Brahman itself, which undergoes a change; this also is of no avail since Brahman and its power are non-different.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881
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Vishnu, possesses two forms, called powers (sakti), viz. a denned one (mûrta) and an undefined one (amûrta); and then teaches that a portion of the
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881
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