# पराशक्ति (parāśakti)

Canonical page: https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/parashakti

पराशक्ति (parāśakti) is a Sanskrit word meaning a particular form of Shakti, Maya.

- **SLP1:** `parASakti`  **IAST:** parāśakti  **Devanagari:** पराशक्ति
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parashakti
- **Declensions:** 72 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/parashakti/declensions.md
- **Other headwords romanised the same way:** परशक्ति (paraśakti)

## Meanings by context

### Other (2 definitions)
- a particular form of Shakti  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H3) [Printed book page 589,1] परा (parā) — शक्ति (—śakti) f. (with Śāktas) a partic. form of Śakti, Catalogue(s) [Cologne Addition] (Title) [ ID=116686 ]
- 1. Maya. 2. The worship of Maya to remove sins and avoid hell.  
  *The Purana Index*
  > पराशक्ति (parāśakti) [Printed book page 2-293 ] Parāśakti — is Māyā; 1 worship of, to get rid of Raurava hell and of other sins. 2 [ Footnote: 1) Vā. 104. 33.] [ Footnote: 2) Br. IV. 7-75; 8. 57-8; 10. 90; 12. 41-66; 14. 22; 15. 46.] [ ID=7607 ]

## Sources

Definitions from Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899); The Purana Index.
Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, University of Cologne.

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