ABSTRACT
Grace, Rage and Knowledge are functional categories to structure the vastness of the attributes and personages of the goddesses. They perform multiple functions in the mythical narratives, in the visual arts and in the minds of devotees and their daily lives. Grace is not an exclusive idea of delicate elegance and exquisite charm. Grace is a metaphor of multiple attributes around which even the wrathful deity becomes graceful. Kumari is the symbol of grace of the goddess like the entire other goddesses of Grace as the metaphoric representations of somberness, maternity and forms of beauty. The opposition between the graceful and the terrible is best understood in the narratives and arts associated with names of the goddesses like Durga, Kali, Chandi, Bhairavi and Bhavani. The Dakshina-Kali temple in Pharping is in the southeastern part of the valley. A beautiful deity is ugly, and a deity of Rage is compassionate.
