Mahakali
Sign in to saveMahakali () is a deity common to Hinduism and Buddhism. In Hinduism, she is the goddess of time and death in the goddess-centric tradition of Shaktism, and a Yakshini in both the Svetambara and Digambara traditions of Jainism. She is also known as the supreme being in various Hindu tantras and Puranas.
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- Hindu
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- Goddess Mahakali - National Museum, Delhi.jpg
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- Mahakali, National Museum, Delhi
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- Mahakali
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- महाकाली
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- Mahākālī
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- Mother GoddessGoddess of Time and Death
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- Manidvipa
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- Oṁ Śrī Mahākālikāyai namaḥ Oṁ Kālī Mahākālī Kalike Parameśvarī Sarvānanda Devī Nārāyaṇī namostute
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- shield, trishula, sword, dagger, bow and arrow, scimitar, cobra, gada, chakra, noose, vajra
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- Mahavidya
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- Shiva as Mahakala
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Mahakali () is a deity common to Hinduism and Buddhism. In Hinduism, she is the goddess of time and death in the goddess-centric tradition of Shaktism, and a Yakshini in both the Svetambara and Digambara traditions of Jainism. She is also known as the supreme being in various Hindu tantras and Puranas.
Similar to Kali, Mahakali is a fierce goddess associated with universal power, time, life, death, and both rebirth and liberation. She is the consort of Mahakala, the god of consciousness, the basis of reality and existence. Mahakali, in Sanskrit, is etymologically the feminised variant of Mahakala, or Great Time (which is also interpreted as Death), Shiva in Hinduism.