ABSTRACT

The term Devi connotes to one of the most pervasive identity markers associated with a vast range of goddesses. Furthermore, Devi’s attributes as Grace, Rage and Knowledge overlap in Hindu religious imagination. How each term is a plural construct and consequently how they merge with one another is the focus of the chapter. Both the categorization of the goddesses and their correspondences and connection in terms with their attributes are the features with which Hindu imagination sustains its complex religiosity. This chapter thus continues the discourse of how these supernaturals can be conceived both as separate identities (as discussed in Chapter 2) as well as inseparabilities.