1. Ability, power, capacity, capability, faculty, strength, energy, or prowess.
2. Regal power consisting of royal majesty, good counsel, and energy.
3. The active power or energy of a deity personified as his wife.
4. The female organ.
5. The force or meaning of a term.
6. An iron spear, lance, pike, or dart.
7. A sword.
8. An instrument used in gambling.
9. Allaying or appeasing opposition.
शक्ति (śakti) [Printed book page 0985-c] Śakti, is, f. ability, power, capacity, capability,
faculty, strength, energy, prowess; regal power (hav-
ing three parts or constituent elements, viz. 1.
pra- bhu-tva, the majesty or pre-eminence of the king
himself; 2.
mantra, the power of good counsel;
3.
utsāha, the force of energy); the energy or
active power of a deity personified as his wife and
Page0986-a+ 81 worshipped under various names, (sometimes only
eight Śakti goddesses are enumerated, as follow, In-
drāṇī, Vaiṣṇavī, Śāntā, Brahmāṇī, Kaumārī, Nāra-
siṃhī, Vārāhī, and Māheśvarī, but some substitute
Cāmuṇḍā and Caṇḍikā for the third and sixth of
these: according to another reckoning there are nine,
viz. Vaiṣṇavī, Brahmāṇī, Raudrī, Māheśvarī, Nāra-
siṃhī, Vārāhī, Indrāṇī, Kārttikī, and Pradhānā: others
reckon fifty different forms of the Śakti of Viṣṇu
besides Lakṣmī, some of these are Kīrtti, Kānti,
Tuṣṭi, Puṣṭā, Dhṛti, Śānti, Kriyā, Dayā, Medhā,
&c. and fifty forms of the Śakti of Śiva or Rudra
besides Durgā or Gaurī, some of whom are Guṇo-
darī, Virajā, Śālmalī, Lolākṣī, Vartulākṣī, Dīrgha-
ghoṇā, Sudīrgha-mukhī, Go-mukhī, Dīrgha-jihvā,
Kuṇḍodarī, Ardha-keśī, Vikṛta-mukhī, Jvālā-mukhī,
Ulkā-mukhī, &c. Sarasvatī is also named as a Śakti,
both of Viṣṇu and Rudra: according to the Vāyu-
Purāṇa the female nature of Rudra became twofold,
one half
asita or white, and the other
sita or black,
each of these again becoming manifold, those of the
white or mild nature included Lakṣmī, Sarasvatī,
Gaurī, Umā, &c. those of the dark and fierce nature,
Durgā, Kālī, &c.); the female organ (as the counter-
part of the phallic representation of Śiva, and wor-
shipped either literally or figuratively by a sect of
Hindūs termed Śāktas, see
śākta); the power or
signification (of a word), force or meaning of a term
(defined in the Nyāya as the relation of the term to
the thing designated
padasya padārthe samban- dhaḥ); an iron spear, lance, pike, dart [cf.
śāk- tīka]; a sword; a kind of implement or instrument
used in gambling; allaying or appeasing opposition;
(
is), m., N. of a Muni or sage (the eldest of Va-
siṣṭha's hundred sons; according to Viṣṇu-Purāṇa
I. 1. he was father of Parāśara, and was devoured by
king Kalmāṣa-pāda, when changed to a man-eating
Rākṣasa, in consequence of a curse pronounced upon
him by the sage; he is represented as having over-
come the power and speech of Viśvā-mitra at the
sacrifice of king Saudāsa, and is regarded as the Ṛṣi
of Ṛg-veda VII. 32, 26, IX. 97, 19 — 21, IX. 108,
3, 14 — 16; Śakti is also identified with one of the
Vyāsas, and elsewhere with the sage Jātūkarṇa).
—Śakti-kuṇṭhana, am, n. (in phil.) the deadening
of a capacity.
—Śakti-kumāra, as, m., N. of a
poet.
—Śakti-gaṇa, as, m. the company or assem-
blage of the Śaktis, (see under
śakti above.)
—Śakti- graha, as, ā, am, taking hold of the force or mean-
ing (of a word or sentence); apprehending the
meaning (in any particular sense), acceptation (of a
word &c.); holding or bearing a spear or lance,
armed with a spear; (
as), m. perception or appre-
hension of the force or sense (of a word); a spear-
man, lancer; epithet of Śiva; of Kārttikeya.
—Śakti- grāhaka, as, ikā, am, who or what causes to ap-
prehend the force or signification (of a word or
phrase), determining or establishing the meaning of
words (as a dictionary, grammar, &c.); taking hold
of the force (of a word &c.); holding a spear, &c.
—Śakti-ja, as, ā, am, born from Śakti; (
as), m.
son of Śakti.
—Śakti-tas, ind. according to power,
to the best of one's ability.
—Śakti-tā, f. power,
capacity, faculty.
—Śakti-traya, am, n. the three
constituents of regal power (viz. king, minister, and
energy; see
śakti).
—Śakti-dhara, as, m. a spear-
man, lancer; epithet of Kārttikeya.
—Śakti-dhṛk (see
dhṛk, p. 459), bearing a spear.
—Śakti-parṇa, as, m. the tree Echites Scholaris
(= sapta-parṇa). —Śakti-pāṇi, is, m. ‘spear-handed,’ armed with a
spear or lance, a spearman; epithet of Kārttikeya.
—Śakti-pāta, as, m. prostration of strength.
—Śak- ti-pūjaka, as, m. a Śakti-worshipper, a Śākta, (see
śakti, śākta.)
—Śakti-pūjā, f. Śakti-worship, (see
above.)
—Śakti-pūrva, as, m. ‘having Śakti for a
forefather,’ epithet of Parāśara (as son of Śakti).
—Śakti-prakarṣa, as, ā, am, possessing superior
capacity or extraordinary power.
—Śakti-bhṛt, t, t, t, bearing a spear, armed with a spear; (
t), m. a
spearman, lancer; epithet of Kārttikeya.
—Śakti- bheda, as, m. difference of power; a special capacity.
Page0986-b+ 81 —Śakti-bhairava-tantra, am, n., N. of a Tantra
work.
—Śakti-mat, ān, atī, at, possessed of ability,
powerful, mighty, able; possessing a competence,
one who has gained a fortune.
—Śakti-yāmala, N.
of a work.
—Śakti-ratnākara (°na-āk°), as, m.
‘jewel-mine of Śakti,’ N. of a work on the mystical
worship of Śakti or Durgā, (it contains five chapters
compiled from the Tantras and Purāṇas.)
—Śakti- vāda or
śakti-vicāra, as, m., N. of a philosophical
work by Gadādhara-bhaṭṭācārya.
—Śakti-vādin, ī, m. one who asserts or believes in Śakti-worship.
—Śakti-vaikalya, am, n. deficiency of power,
impairment of strength, incapacity, debility.
—Śakti- hīna, as, ā, am, powerless, impotent.
—Śakti-he- tika, as, m. one who has a spear for a weapon, a
spearman, lancer, soldier armed with a lance.
—Śak- ty-apekṣa, as, ā, am, having regard or reference
to ability, according to power or capacity.
—Śakty- ardha, as, m. perspiring and panting with exertion
or fatigue, (according to Śabda-k.
= śrama-dvārā kukṣi-lalāṭa-grīvāsūtpanno gharmo dīrgha-ni- śvāsaś-ca.)
—Śakty-avara, as, ā, am, junior to
Śakti.
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