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REMARKS ON THE TEXTS
Vidyi-devi.
Vidyadhara-vidya.
Svetambara Sisapadevi.
Digambara S sanadevi.
No. 5.
No. 9.
8. Malūkāli. 9. Gauri
No. 11.
Mahāvidyā No. 1 and Vidya-nikaya No. 1.
10. Gandhari.
No. 21.
No. 12.
Mahavidyā No. 2 and Vidyā-nikāya No. 3.
11. Sarvāstrā
Mahājvālā.
No. S (Jvā
lā).
No. 11.
No. 7 or 10.
12. Mānavi .. Vidyā-nikāya
No. 4. 13. Vairogyā. 14. Acchuptā. 15. Mānasi..
No. 19
No. 20.
No. 15. No. 16.
16. Mahāmā
nasi.
B.C. Bhattacharya (1. c. p. 164), who also noticed that there are “clear points of identity between Vidyādevis and Sāsanadevis, not only regarding names, but also attributes, etc.", has come to the conclusion that "the Vidyā-devīs in conception were modelled after the Yakşiņīs”, and this "on the ground of the priority of the
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