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Devī

The Goddess: in Śākta Hinduism, the supreme divine power and mother of the universe.

Also: Devi, the Goddess

Vedānta and the Hindu traditions

Devī, “goddess”, names both the many goddesses of Hinduism and, for the Śākta traditions, the one Goddess of whom they are forms: Durgā, Kālī, Lakṣmī, Pārvatī and others. She is identified with śakti, the power by which the divine creates and acts, and with the absolute itself.