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REMARKS ON THE TEXTS
Vidyà-devi.
Vidyadhara-vidya.
Svetà mbara Sāsapadevi.
Digambara Ś sanadevi
8. Mahākāli.
No. 5.
No. 9.
9. Gauri
No. 11.
.. | Mahāvidya
No. 1 and Vidya-nikāya No. 1.
10. Gandhari. Mahāvidyā No. 21. No. 12.
No. 2 and Vidyā-nikā
ya No. 3. 11. Sarvāstrā
No. 8 (JvāMahājvā
lā). lā. 12. Mãnavĩ .. Vidya-nikāyal No. 11. | No. 7 or 10.
No. 4. 13. Vairotyā.
No. 13. 14. Acchuptā. 15. Mánasi ..
No. 15. 16. Mahāmā
No. 16. nası,
B.C. Bhattacharya (1. c. p. 164), who also noticed that there are “clear points of identity between Vidyādevīs and Śāsanadevis, not only regarding names, but also attributes, etc.”, has come to the conclusion that "the Vidyā-devis in conception were modelled after the Yaksiņis”, and this "on the ground of the priority of the
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