Gauri
Gauri is the golden form of Parvati. When Shiva addresses Parvati as Kali, "the dark blue one", she is greatly offended and performs austerities to lose her dark complexion and becomes Gauri, the golden one.
↻ synthesized from 5 sources
When
- First attested
- 0 CE
- Attested period
- 0 – 2020
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Shumbha, Nishumbha, Akhilandeswari, Aditi, Uma-Haimavati, Rudrani, Sati-Parvati, Nirriti, Annapurna, Kshethra Balaka, Rudra Savarni Manu, Ardhanarishvara, Mainavati, Harishankari, Uma, Kauśikī, Raktabija, Madhu-Kaitabha, Chanda, Munda, Daruka, kali, Durga, Ambika, Mahakali, Meenakshi, Kamakshi, Śiva, Ganesha, Kārtikeya, Saraswati, Himavan, Mahalakshmi
- manifests as
- Parvati
- syncretized with
- Lakshmi
- created by
- Mahasarasvati
- child of
- Mahasarasvati
Mentioned by
- Raktabija
- Madhu-Kaitabha
- Chanda
- Munda
- Daruka
- kali
- Durga
- Ambika
- Mahakali
- Meenakshi
- Kamakshi
- Śiva
- Ganesha
- Kārtikeya
- Saraswati
- Himavan
and 2 more
Sources
Source passages
“When Shiva addresses Parvati as Kali, "the dark blue one", she is greatly offended. Parvati performs austerities to lose her dark complexion and becomes Gauri, the golden one. Her dark sheath becomes Kaushiki, who while enraged, creates Kali.”
#12712 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Parvati is considered another aspect of Shakti, just like Kali, Durga, Kamakshi, Meenakshi, Gauri and many others in modern-day Hinduism”
#29309 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Parvati is the Hindu goddess of love, beauty, purity and devotion. She is the mother goddess in Hinduism and has many attributes and aspects. Each of her aspects is expressed with a different name, giving her over 1008 names in regional Hindu mythologies of India, including the popular names such as Gauri”
#29948 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Visnu should be considered the same as Rudra and Laksmi the same as Gauri. He who speaks of difference between them is lowly (Adharma) and should be considered an atheist.”
#30750 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“she is the supreme shakti who took the form of Kauśikī from Gauri to slay demons like Shumbha and Nishumbha”
#31131 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5