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mental vision, he began to create all things by his own will, being united with his will, which became manifest as Múla PRAKKITI'. The original PRAKRITI first assumed five forms? --Durgs the bride, Sakti, and Máyá, of Śiva, Lakshmi the bride, Sakti and Máyá of VISHŃU, SARASWATÍ the same of BRAHMÁ, or in the Brahma Vaivartta Purána, of Hari, whilst the next, SAVITRÍ is the bride of BRAHMÁ. The fifth division of the original Prakriti, was Rádiá, the favourite of the youthful KRISHNA, and unquestionably a modern intruder into the Hindu Pantheon.
Besides these more important manifestations of the female principle, the whole body of goddesses and nymphs of every order are said to have sprung from the same source, and indeed every creature, whether human or brutal, of the female sex, is referred to the same principle, whilst the origin of males is ascribed to the primitive Purusha, or male. In every creation of the universe it is said the Múla PRAKRITI assumes the different gradations of Ansarúpiní, Kalárúpiní, Kalánsarúpiní, or manifest herself in portions, parts, __ स्वेच्छामयस्येच्छया च श्रीकृष्णस्य सिसूक्षया।
साविबंभव सहसा मलप्रकृतिरीश्वरी॥ "From the wish which was the creative impulse of Sri Krishna, endowed with his will, she, Múla Prakriti, the Supreme, became manifest.” [ibid. sl. 12.]
तदाज्ञया पञ्चविधा सष्टिकर्मविभेदतः । “And she (the Mila Prakriti,) became in the act of creation five-fold by the will of the Supreme.” [śl. 13.]
अंशरूपा कलारूपा कलांशांशस्य सम्भवा । प्रकृतेः प्रति विश्वेषु देव्याश्च दिव्ययोगिनः॥
