Mahasaraswati
Devi Mahatmya ("Greatness of the Goddess"), a later interpolation into the Markandeya Purana, is considered to be one of the core texts of Shaktism (the branch of Hinduism which considers Durga to be the highest aspect of Godhead). It assigns a different form of the Goddess (Mahasaraswati, Mahalakshmi, and Mahakali) to each of the three episodes therein. Here, Mahakali is assigned to the first episode.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 0 CE
- Attested period
- 0 – 2020
Relationships
- sibling of
- Mahalakshmi, Mahakali
- co occurs with
- Shakti, Mahalaxmi, Chamunda, Narasimhi, Brahmani, Varahi, Maheshwari, Vaishnavi, Vishnu, Durga, Parvati, Chanda, Munda, Shumbha, Nishumbha
- manifests as
- Kauśikī
- aspect of
- Mahadevi
- manifested by
- Mahadevi
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Devi Mahatmya ("Greatness of the Goddess"), a later interpolation into the Markandeya Purana, is considered to be one of the core texts of Shaktism (the branch of Hinduism which considers Durga to be the highest aspect of Godhead). It assigns a different form of the Goddess (Mahasaraswati, Mahalakshmi, and Mahakali) to each of the three episodes therein.”
#12809 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Mahadevi manifests as the goddess Mahasaraswati in order to create, as the goddess Mahalaxmi in order to preserve, and as the goddess Mahakali (Parvati) in order to destroy. These three forms of the supreme goddess Mahadevi are collectively called the Tridevi.”
#29964 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Goddess Kaushiki also known as Ambika or Chandika is an incarnation of Mahasaraswati.”
#31102 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5