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Vāc Āmbhṛṇī
वाक् आम्भृणी
Vāc Āmbhṛṇī
Vāc Āmbhṛṇī's Devī-sūkta is the most philosophically consequential hymn attributed to a woman: Speech herself declares that she pervades and carries all the gods. Śākta tradition reads it as the Goddess's own self-disclosure.
Quick facts
- Era
- Ṛgvedic (traditional)
- field
- Vedic hymnody, theology of speech
- sourcing
- textually attested
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