The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1440 page)

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(eternal night, depicted naked drinking blood from her own self-severed head); Dh
m
vat
(the destruction,
pralaya
, of the cosmos, when only smoke,
dh
ma
, remains); Bagal
(emotional forces of hate, jealousy, etc.); M
ta
gi (power and domination); Kamal
(the girl of the
lotus
, pure consciousness). The Mah
vidya cult was prominent in medieval Bengal.
Mah
v
ra
(Skt.,
mahat
, ‘great’, +
v
ra
, ‘hero’). In Jainism, the honorific title given to Vardham
na Jn
t
putra, the 24th
t
rtha
kara
. The
Digambara
and
vet
mbara sects recount two divergent accounts of his life. Both agree that he was born the son of a
k
atriya
couple, Siddh
rtha and
Tri
al
, at Ku
agrama just north of modern Patna (Bihar State, India) in 599 BCE. The

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