འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་མ་བདུན། | Glossary of Terms

འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་མ་བདུན།

’jig rten gyi ma bdun

saptalokamātṛ

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seven mothers of the world

The Great Amulet

seven mothers of the world

འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་མ་བདུན།

’jig rten gyi ma bdun

saptalokamātṛ

Definition in this text:

A set of Indic goddesses, most typically comprised of Brāhmī, Māheśvarī, Kaumārī, Vaiṣṇavī, Vārāhī/Yāmī, and Aindrī. They correspond to a similar set of seven brahmanical deities: Brahmā, Śiva, Skanda, Viṣṇu, Varāha/Yama, and Indra.

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