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Devi

noun

Hindu mother goddess; supreme power in the universe; wife or embodiment of the female energy of Siva having both beneficent and malevolent forms or aspects.

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"Devi" Quotes from Famous Books

... my sisters, and I mentioned it when writing home. On going up to London, I became acquainted with a gentleman, who, writing a note one day to a friend of mine and speaking of me, said: "I spell the name after the Welsh fashion, Devi; I don't know how he spells it." On inquiring of this gentleman, and he referred me also to biographical dictionaries,—I found that our name had an origin of unsuspected dignity, not to say sanctity, being no other than ...

— Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. - Edited by his Daughter • Orville Dewey

... riding, first round Jakko, then Elysium, then Summer Hill, then Observatory Hill, then under Jutogh, and lastly up and down the Cart Road as far as the Tara Devi gap in the dusk, she said to the Tertium Quid, 'Frank, people say we are too much together, ...

— Under the Deodars • Rudyard Kipling

Words linked to "Devi" : Nanda Devi, Bhumi Devi, Hindu deity