Parvati Quotes

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“Karttikeya is the younger son of Shiva and Parvati; Ganesha is the elder son. There are many versions of his life story, as is usual in Hindu tradition.”

“Parvati has wrathful incarnations surely,
As Durga, Kali, Shitala Devi, Tara, Chandi,
She has benevolent forms like Katyayani,
Kamalatmika, Bhuvaneshwari, Lalita, Gauri.”

“Three images are central to the mythology,
To iconography and philosophy of Parvati:
They reconciliation, interdependence do be,
And harmony of ascetic and householder be.”

“Parvati as the Goddess of Power does be,
Who source of all forms and of all beings be,
In Her all the power but exists undoubtedly,
And She who the destroys all fear clearly be.”

“The apparent contradiction that Parvati be,
The fair one, Gauri, and the dark one, Kali,
Suggests the placid wife, can change fully,
To her primal chaotic nature as powerful Kali.”

“Parvati is able to restrain Shiv dramatically,
Shiv dwels in Parvati’s father’s house clearly
This implies their relationships priority
And her ability thwart Shiva’s will surely”

“In one example, Himavat has a ragged beggar thrown from his house only to learn later that this was Parvati's beau Shiva, with whom she had become enthralled.”

“The most common story of his [Ganesha's] origin is that he was made by Parvati, who rubbed off material from her skin and formed it into a shape of a person. She set this “child” Ganesha to guard her shower or inner chamber.”

“In fact, she [Minakshi] in the temple of Madurai] appears late enough not to be identified with Parvati, his usual spouse, but as a separate wife. Likewise, the Tamil god Murugan became identified as the youngest son of Shiva and Parvati.”

“In one tale she [Matangi] emerges from leftover food that Shiva, Parvati, Vishnu, and Lakshmi have just eaten. Another myth calls Matangi a sister of Shiva, cursed by Parvati to be reborn in an untouchable (Dalit) family, forced to survive on leftovers.”

“... befriending good by the destruction of hell in the same way as Parvati befriended the gods by destroying the army of demons; like Lakshmi rising from the sea in the assembly of the saints”

“Parvati, his [Shiva's] second wife and the daughter of the Himalaya mountain, may well have been a distinct divinity in ancient times. Later, as Durga and Kali became recognized as wives of Shiva, many of the local goddesses lost some or all of their original character and began to be understood as Durga or Kali under other names.”

“One myth has Chinnamasta as a form of Parvati, the consort of Shiva. Another sees her as Parvati in the form of Chandi. In both myths the goddess is begged for food by her attendants and cuts off her head to offer them her blood.”

“One day when Shiva had finished eating, he called to his wife Parvati to come and take her food too before it got cold. She pleaded that she had not finished repeating, according to her daily wont, the thousand names of Vishnu; whereupon her husband instructed her that it would suffice if she said the mere name of ‘Rama’ once for that had as much virtue as all the thousand.”

“Ardhanarishvara, “The Lord Who is Half Woman,” is a form of Shiva whose left half is the Goddess Parvati or Shakti, with breast and sari drape. The iconic image is a popular one at temples and shrines to Shiva everywhere in India.
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“Kali first appears in developed literary form in the Devibhagavatam of the 11th to 12th centuries, where she is seen to be Parvati, wife of Shiva, who becomes completely black out of fury when battling the demons Shumbha and Nishumbha.”

“Uma, sometimes called PARVATI, is the principal goddess of Bali; she is the Goddess of the Mountain Gunung Agung, where she dwells as the consort of Shiva, the Great Ancestor. She has many manifestations. As Uma, she nourishes and causes seeds to germinate.”