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Gauri

noun
1.
In Hinduism, goddess of purity and posterity and a benevolent aspect of Devi; the 'brilliant'.





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"Gauri" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Vidyadharas, is a Buddhist. He marries Malayavati, daughter of the king of the Siddhas, a votary of the goddess Gauri, the wife of the great god Siva. When he comes to know that Garuda, the bird celebrated in mythology, is used to eat up one snake each day, he makes up his mind to offer himself to the bird as a victim, and eventually succeeds in converting Garuda to the principle of Ahimsa or abstention ...
— Tales from the Hindu Dramatists • R. N. Dutta


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