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The '''''Mahabhagavata Purana''''' ({{langx|sa|महाभागवतपुराणम्|translit=mahābhāgavatapurāṇam}}), also called the '''''Devi Purana''''', is an ''[[upapurana]]'' (minor [[Puranas|Purana]]) traditionally attributed to the sage [[Vyasa]]. Written between the tenth and eleventh centuries CE in [[Bengal]], the work belongs to the [[Shaktism|Shakta]] tradition. It primarily describes the legends of the supreme goddess of [[Hinduism]], [[Mahadevi]], and her manifestation as the goddesses [[Sati (Hindu goddess)|Sati]], [[Parvati]], [[Kali]], and [[Ganga (goddess)|Ganga]]. The work is regarded to have been strongly influenced by the [[Tantra]] tradition, including descriptions of the Tantric forms of goddess-worship such as the [[mahavidya]]s, and integrating them with the [[Vedanta]] school of thought.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Foulston |first=Lynn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l1yVEAAAQBAJ&pg=PP64 |title=Hindu Goddesses: Beliefs & Practices |date=2009-07-03 |publisher=Liverpool University Press |isbn=978-1-80207-134-4 |pages=64 |language=en}}</ref>

==Contents==
The ''Mahabhagavata Purana'' begins with the manifestation of Mahadevi as Sati, her marriage to [[Shiva]], and her conflict with her father, [[Daksha]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Herman |first1=Phyllis K. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=97EYBwAAQBAJ&dq=devi+mahabhagavata+purana&pg=PA176 |title=The Constant and Changing Faces of the Goddess: Goddess Traditions of Asia |last2=Shimkhada |first2=Deepak |date=2009-03-26 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-4438-0702-9 |pages=176 |language=en}}</ref> The second narrative, called the ''Ganga Upakhyana'', describes the manifestation of the goddess as Ganga. The third narrative, called the ''Shiva Upakhyana'', relays the manifestation of the goddess as Parvati, as well as including the ''Bhagavati Gita'', a dialogue between Parvati and her father [[Himavat|Himavan]] on the significance of ''[[bhakti]]'',<ref>{{Cite book |last=McDaniel |first=June |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d21MCAAAQBAJ&dq=devi+mahabhagavata+purana&pg=PT261 |title=Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal |date=2004-08-05 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-029056-6 |pages=261 |language=en}}</ref> as well as the thousand names of the goddess, termed the ''Mahakalisahasranamastotra''. The latter half of the text comprise the Shakta version of the ''[[Ramayana]]'', the legend of [[Krishna]], where he is depicted as an embodiment of Mahadevi, and the defeat of [[Vritra]] at the hands of [[Indra]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=McDermott |first1=Rachel Fell |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NJwyyizvjpAC&pg=PA40 |title=Encountering Kālī: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West |last2=Kripal |first2=Jeffrey John |date=2003 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-23239-6 |pages=40 |language=en}}</ref> It describes the [[Shakti Pitha]]s as the sites where a grieving Shiva meditated after the death of Sati at the [[Daksha yajna|Daksha Yajna]], the deity proclaiming blessings upon the devotees who worshipped at them.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Chakravarty |first=Saumitra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IEZ1EAAAQBAJ&dq=mahabhagavata+purana&pg=PT52 |title=The Goddess Re-discovered: Gender and Sexuality in Religious Texts of Medieval Bengal |date=2022-08-05 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-000-63287-3 |pages=52 |language=en}}</ref> [[Kamarupa]] is described to be the greatest of the Shakti Pithas, offering ''[[moksha]]'' (liberation) to all adherents who worship at the site.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Shri Ganesh Durga Society |url=http://archive.org/details/MahabhagavataPuran001 |title=Mahabhagavata Puran 001 |pages=93}}</ref>

== Translations and Commentaries ==

* Devi Mahabhagavata Purana (Sanskrit Text with English Translation) - Shanti Lal Nagar<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lal Nagar |first=Shanti |title=Devi Mahabhagavata Purana (Sanskrit Text with English Translation) |publisher=EASTERN BOOK LINKERS |year=2014 |isbn=9788178542713 |language=English, Sanskrit}}</ref>
* A Critical Study of The Mahabhagavadpuranam - Hansa B. Bhatt<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bhatt |first=Hansa B. |title=A Critical Study of The Mahabhagavadpuranam |publisher=BHARATIYA KALA PRAKASHAN |year=2004 |isbn=8180900576}}</ref>

== References ==
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