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Iconography of Female Divinities in Bengal by Cassidy English is a document available to read on EtoBox.
1) The document discusses the universality of goddess worship in early medieval Bengal through an iconographic study of female deity images from different regions. 2) It describes how the concept of "Sakti", or female divine energy, was recognized in Brahmanical texts, later Puranas, and mystic Buddhist sects like Vajrayana. Many goddesses were conceived as either consorts or manifestations of male deities
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- Cassidy English
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