Memoirs of the Archæological Survey of India the origin and Cult of Tara

Durga the devatii of this hymn as we find her described in the Makancleya-Purava which is one of the chief books of the Siciktas is the female principle in the universe. [...] If we compare the Prakritikhaycla of the Brahmavaivartta-Paraya and the Durga-saptagati of the Markaycleya-Puraya both giving the episode of king Suratlia and the merchant Samddhi we shall at once find that the goddess Durga the visible personification of the active principle is not so distinct in the one as she is in the other for in the former the Sankhya view of the Purusha and the Prakrit [...] In the earlier works like the Siinkh Ctyana-GriliyasUtra we do find for example a goddess Bbadrakfili but how different she is from the _31dyd or Kali of the Malidvidyä cult of the Tantras ! Similarly the Uma-Haimavati of the Talacakara or Kenopanishad is not identical with the Unn; of the Kanaira-safitbhava of Krilid-asa or that of the Purdy as. [...] I have just alluded to the differences we notice in the personality of the Durga of the two Purayas namely the Brahroavaicartta and the Makancleya and the Tantras or other works. [...] The A. Scidhanameilci as quoted by M. Foucher 1 would show that Nagarjuna revived the worship of Ekajata a principal form of the goddess amongst the Bhotas or the country of Tibet for it says :— 1MIZTVII:14 ;IRTRII-nrarKTITT‘-11TiiffirgaT TOT I meaning ' The end of the manual of worship of Ekajata—Ekjata was revived in the Bhotas or the country of Tibet by the Rev.