‘Dweller on the Vindhya’, perhaps originally a tribal goddess of the Vindhya hills, but later a form of
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, worshipped by the
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Vindhyav
sin
(Skt., ‘she who lives on the Vindhya mountains’). Name of a goddess in a well-known Hindu temple. The shrine stands near Mirzapur, E. Uttar Pradesh, and has been famous since at least the 7th cent. CE, even with N. Indian court poets.
Viññ
na
(consciousness):