vitta-ṡaktyā

ṡaktí


paraṉṡaktyā, « with all one's might» ;
vitta-ṡaktyā, « according to the capability of one's property» ;
ṡaktima-hāpayitvā, « not relaxing one's efforts, exerting all one's strength»), faculty, skill, capacity for, power over (gen. loc. dat., orﾠ inf.) RV. etc. etc.;
effectiveness orﾠ efficacy (of a remedy) ṠārṇgS. ;
regal power (consisting of three parts, prabhutva, personal pre-eminence;
mantra, good counsel, andﾠ utsāha, energy) Kām. (cf. Ragh. III, 13);
the energy orﾠ active power of a deity personified as his wife andﾠ worshipped by the Ṡākta (q.v.) sect of Hindūs under various names
(sometimes only three, sometimes eight Ṡakti goddesses are enumerated, as follow, Indrāṇi, Vaishṇavī, Ṡāntā, Brahmāṇī, Kaumāri, Nārasiṇhī, Vārāhī, andﾠ Māheṡvarī, but some substitute Cāmuṇḍā andﾠ Cāṇdikā for the third andﾠ sixth of these:
according to another reckoning there are nine, viz. Vaishṇavī, Brahmāṇi, Raudri, Māheṡvarī, Nārasiṇhī, Vārāhī, Indraṇī, Kārttikī, andﾠ Pradhānā:
others reckon fifty different forms of the Ṡakti of Vishṇu besides Lakshmī, some of these are Kīrtti, Kānti, Tushṭi, Pushṭā, Dhṛiti. Ṡānti, Kriyā, Dayā, Medhā etc.;
andﾠ fifty forms of the Ṡakti of Ṡiva orﾠ Rudra besides Durgā orﾠ Gaurī, some of whom are Guṇôdarī, Virajā, Sālmali, Lolâkshi, Vartulâkshī, Dīrgha-ghoṇā, Sudirgha-mukhī, Go. -mukhī, Dirgha-jihvā, Kuṇḍôdarī, Ardha-keṡī, Vikṛita-mukhī, Jvālā-mukhi, Ulkāmukhi etc.;
Sarasvati is alsoﾠ named as a Ṡakti, both of Vishṇu andﾠ Rudra:
according to the Vāyu-Purāṇa the female nature of Rudra became twofold, one half asita orﾠ white, andﾠ the other sita orﾠ black, each of these again becoming manifold, those of the white orﾠ mild nature included Lakshmī, Sarasvati, Gaurī, Umā etc.;
those of the dark andﾠ fierce nature, Durgā, Kāli etc.) Kāv. Kathās. Pur. (cf. RTL. 181 etc.. MWB. 216);
the female organ (as worshipped by the Ṡākta sect either actually orﾠ symbolically) RTL. 140 ;
the power orﾠ signification of a word (defined in the Nyāya as padasyapadâ̱rthe sambandhaḥ i.e. « the relation of a word to the thing designated») Bhāshāp. Sāh. ;
(in Gram.) case-power, the idea conveyed by a case (= kāraka) Pāṇ. 2-3, 7 Sch. ;
the power orﾠ force orﾠ most effective word of a sacred text orﾠ magic formula Up. Pañcar. ;
the creative power orﾠ imagination (of a poet) Kāvyâd. ;
help, aid, assistance, gift, bestowal RV. ;
a spear, lance, pike, dart RV. etc. ( alsoﾠ ṡaktī gaṇa bahv-ādi);
a sword MW. ;
(prob.) a flag-staff ( seeﾠ ratha-ṡ-);
a partic. configuration of stars andﾠ planets (when the latter are situated in the 7th, 8th, 9th, andﾠ 10th astrological house), VirBṛS.;
m. N. of a Muni orﾠ sage (the eldest of Vasishṭha's hundred sons;
accord. toﾠ VP. he was father of Parāṡara, andﾠ was devoured by king Kalmāsha-pāda, when changed to a man-eating Rākshasa, in consequence of a curse pronounced upon him by the sage;
he is represented as having overcome Viṡvāmitra at the sacrifice of king Saudāsa;
he is regarded as the author of RV. VII, 32, 26; IX, 97, 19-21; 108, 3; 14-16 ;
Ṡakti is alsoﾠ identified with one of the Vylāsas, andﾠ with Avalokitêṡvara, andﾠ has elsewhere the patr. Jātukarna andﾠ Sāṃkṛiti) Pravar. MBh. etc.
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