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and portions of parts, and further subdivisions. The chief Anšas are, besides the five already enumerated, Gangá, Tulasí, MANASÁ, SHASHÝhí, or DEVASENÁ, MANGALACHANDIKÁ, and Kálí"; the principal Kalás are Swáhá, SWADHÁ, DAKSHIŃÁ, SWASTI, PUSHíi, Tushti, and others, most of which are allegorical personifications, as Dhriti, Fortitude, Pratishthá, Fame, and Adharma, Wickedness, the bride of Mrityu, or Death. ADITI, the mother of the Gods, and Diti, the mother of the Demons, are also Kalús of PRAKRITI. The list includes all the secondary goddesses. The Kalánšas and Ansánsas, or sub-divisions of the more important manifestations, are all womankind, who are distinguished as good, middling, or bad, according as they derive their being from the parts of their great original in which the Satya, Rajas, and Tamo Guña, or property of goodness, passion, and vice predominates. At the same time as manifestations of the great cause of all they are entitled to respect, and even to veneration : whoever, says the Brahma Vaivartta Puráňa, offends or insults a female, incurs the wrath of PRAKŘITI, whilst he who propitiates a female, particularly the youthful daughter of a Brahman, with clothes, ornaments and perfumes, offers worship to PRAKŘITI herself. It is in the spirit of this last doctrine
"In every creation of the universe the Devi, through divine Yoga, assumes different forms, and becomes Ansarúpá, Kalárúpa, and Kalánšarúpá, or Ansánsarúpá.”
* [and VASUNDHARÁ. See Aufrecht, 1. l., p. 23, b.]
