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==Etymology== Bhavānī is an aspect of [[Durga]], and she is considered to be a mother who provides well for her devotees and plays the role of dispensing justice by killing [[Asuras]].<ref name="PhD2014">{{cite book|author=Patricia Monaghan, PhD|title=Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cj5OAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA91|date=1 April 2014|publisher=New World Library|isbn=978-1-60868-218-8|pages=91–}}</ref><ref name="Pinney2004">{{cite book|author=Christopher Pinney|title='Photos of the Gods': The Printed Image and Political Struggle in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8hhXq7hpzSwC&dq=bhavani%20goddess&pg=PA55|year=2004|publisher=Reaktion Books|isbn=978-1-86189-184-6|pages=55–}}</ref><!-- First sentence is repeated information from the introduction (did not remove because didn't want to interfere with the references). --> She is often seen as an independent goddess, separate from Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines |last=Monaghan |first=Patricia |publisher=New World Library |year=2014 |isbn=9781608682188 |pages=91}}</ref> However, According to the Śiva Purāṇa, Bhavānī is the supreme goddess. Bhavānī (भवानी, “the giver of existence”).—One of the names of the Goddess, Devī, who is regarded as the female principle of the divine; the embodiment of the energies of the Gods. Bhavānī (भवानी) is an epithet of the Goddess (Devī), who incarnated as Satī, according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.2.14. Accordingly, as Brahmā narrated to Nārada:—“[...] On seeing the mother of the universe born of Vīriṇī, Dakṣa joined his palms in reverence, paid respects to her, and eulogised her. [...] O mother of the universe, those who eulogise Thee with the names of Bhavānī, Ambikā, Jaganmāyā and Durgā will have everything”. The Goddess has a great variety of names referable to her various forms, attributes, and actions, but these names are not always used accurately and distinctively. As the mother of the world, she is Gauri, Maa Sherawali, Ambikā or Jagaṭ Jananī (the reading Jagaṭ Jananī/Jaga Jananī for Jaganmāyā is preferable). In her fiercer form, she is Durgā, the killer of Mahishasur.
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