Pantheon South Asian traditions
Mahavidya
महाविद्या hi மகாவித்யா ta
Group of ten aspects of Adi Parashakti in Hinduism
- Members 10 on record
Gods in company,
as the records
count them.
Not a fixed roster
The members
Everyone it counts
A pantheon is not a fixed roster — membership is what the records say.
What this means
10 records name this as the whole they are part of. That is what makes it a pantheon here — no class on Wikidata says so consistently, and nobody publishes a machine-readable roster.
So the list is complete in one direction only: a god whose record does not name this pantheon is missing even if every account places them in it — a gap in the data, not in the tradition. Accounts disagree about who belongs, too; the Twelve Olympians are twelve in some lists and fourteen in others.
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KālīHindu goddess associated with death and destruction, in the 21st century adopted as symbol of feminine empowerment -
Tripura SundarīThe Highest form of Mahadevi -
MātaṅgīHindu goddess -
BhuvaneśvarīThe Queen of the Universe in Hinduism -
ChinnamastāHindu goddess -
BhairavīHindu goddess associated with the Mahavidyas -
DhūmāvatīGoddess of strife in Hinduism -
TaraHindu goddess, a form of Durga or Parvati -
KamalātmikāHindu goddess
Other records · 1
What else names it
Institutions whose own records name Mahavidya.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
0 statements on this record
This record makes no statements of its own yet, so there is nothing here to weigh.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: 1 collection membership. Each is marked where it is shown.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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