Sakti Consciousness in Tantra
ISSN 0970-8669 Odisha Review Sakti Consciousness in Tantra Himanshu Sekhar Bhuyan There are eight great Sakti pithas in the land of Ugratara of Bhusandapur, Daskhinakali of Lord Jagannath surrounding Srikshetra such as; Harekrisnapur, Narayani of Barakul etc. - Bimala in Puri, Mangala in Kakatapur, Bhagabati Out of general evidences, it might be in Banapur, Charchika in Banki , Biraja in Jajpur, mentioned here that most Chandi Pithas are being Sarala in Jhankad, Bhattarika in Badamba, placed in four corners such as- Samaleswari in Cuttack Chandi in Cuttack. Apart from these Sambalpur, Tarini in Keonjhar, Tara in Ganjam prominent eight Sakti Pithas, there are many and Ambika in Baripada. Out of many expressive Chandi Pithas in different places of Odisha. There figures of Sakti, a few goddesses are having are thirty four Sakti Pithas and nineteen Saiva terrible postures like Chandi, Chinnamasta, Pithas, which are surrounded by sixteen Chamunda are related to tantric rituals. Many Mahasakti Pithas for the sake of their sacred spheres of divine goddesses still remain preservation. unworshipped. All of those are based on sound The other ‘Sakti’s names of Divine foundation of Tantra and most of those are out of Mother are as such; — Baseli of common views. Choudwar,‘Barunei’ of Khorda, Gouri of A few aspects are seemed to be the same Bhubaneswar, Bhadrakali of Bhadrak, Bhairavi in ‘Agama’. The ‘jyotisha’ or‘jyotisha tatwa’, seen of Boud, Hingulai of Talcher, Budhi Thakurani of in the scriptures of ‘tantra’ as well as ‘yamala’ of Angul, Sidhakali of Keonjhar, Bindhyabasini of ‘AGAMA’, although appear to be almost same, Redhakhol, Ghanteswari of Chipilima, it varies from its ways of appliances.
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