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1. Käli, 2. Tärä, 3. Tripurä Sundari, 4. Bhuvaneshvari, 5. Bhairavi, 6. Chhinnamastä, 7. Dhumavati, 8. Baglamukhi, 9. Mätangi, 10. Kamalä,
Goddesses numbered two, three, four, nine and ten have mostly benevolent features. Buddhists also revere Tara. She is the deliverer or saviour. Tripurä Sundari is the Goddess of pure perception and knowledge, she is also known as Lalitä. Bhuvaneshvari, Goddess no. four in the above list, is the divine mother and is also known as Aditi in the Vedas (Hindu scriptures). Bhuvaneshvari has the colour of the rising sun with the crescent moon on her head. She has four hands, three of which carries a noose, the goad, and a lotus, and the fourth is slightly raised in a gesture of giving boons and dispelling fears. The mantra for Bhuvaneshvari is the single syllable Hrim. Hrim is one of the most important mantras used by Jains. Bhuvaneshvari resides in the heart-centre in which the entire universe is contained. Shri Janardan Dave, in his article, Das Mahävidyä and Padmävati states that "Bhuvaneshvari is the same as Padmavati in the Tantric sense. There is a temple of the Hindu Goddess Bhuvaneshvari in the city of Gondal, Gujarät.
Mätangi relates to the Hindu Goddess Saraswati, the Goddess of knowledge. Mätangi, like Saraswati plays the veenä, however the difference is that Mätangi has a fierce form whereas Saraswati is a pure and benevolent Goddess. Her Mantra is Aim.
Kamalätmikä is sometimes called Kamalä, the lotus Goddess. Kamalä resembles goddess Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, now the most popular of Hindu deities. However, she is a little different from Lakshmi as Kamala has the form of Käli whereas Lakshmi is full of love, beauty and bliss. Kamala is golden in colour and is seated on a lotus. The lotus is also a symbol of unfolding and represents the openings of the different Chakras of the subtle body. This is a most sacred flower of the Hindus, Jains and Buddhists.
Jain Goddesses
Jain goddesses mainly fall into the following categories:
Mothers of the twenty-four Tirthankaras. Wisdom goddesses ( sixteen Vidyä -devis). Attendant deities: Twenty-four yakshas and twenty-four yakshinis, two for each the Tirthankara. Goddesses of the various directions (fifty-six Dik-kumäris). Lakshmi. Saraswati.
The Goddess Chakreshvari:
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