Description of Goddess Medhadevi

Medhadevi is sometimes personified as a goddess. 180 151 and is beseeched to go to the worshipper, with her grace they become enlightened, and also capable of expressing the supreme truth.on on being favoured by her, the devotee becomes a seer, a brahmana, a knower of Brahman, and the owner of plenty and manifold wealth. She is prayed to nourish the worshipper with milk here her quality as a cow may be noticed. $ She is all-penetrating and beneficial, she is favourably 152 disposed to and also delights in her worshippers. She is pervasive ** like fragrance, and is capable of examining all objects, she 150 J.N. Banerji, "The Development of Hindu Iconography' University of Calcutta, 1956, pp. 377-379. 151 cf. Mahanarayana-upanishad XLI : 1 & 2, XLII :1. 152 Mahanarayana-upanishad XLI : 1 & 2.

possesses golden letters in the shape of the Vedic syllables and is continuously present; she is fit to be resorted to by the seekers of the desirable things of life again and again, 153 and possesses flavour and strength. With her grace, her devotees could become seers, knowers of Brahman, and also owners of much wealth. Those who sought after the desirable things of life, and also aspired for higher things, resorted to her for the sake of enlightenment. arrival, she never manages to gain any real anthropomorphic traits. She thus begins and ends as a rather dim abstraction. A late 181