Goddesses from the Samhitas to the Sutras
by Rajeshri Goswami | 1989 | 68,131 words
This essay studies the Goddesses from the Samhitas to the Sutras. In short, this thesis examines Vedic goddesses by analyzing their images, functions, and social positions. It further details how natural and abstract elements were personified as goddesses, whose characteristics evolved with societal changes....
Description of Goddess Puramdhi
Puramdhi is sometimes personified as a goddess. She is 7 the goddess of plenty and liberality and is endowed with clarified butter; she is possessed of praise consisting of the interwoven vers 23 verses. The word literally means 'supporter of the township'; hence the association with plenty and prosperity (of butter) 22 I: 219. 23 Maitrayani-samhita II : 814, Rigveda VII: 3618
and hence the feminine concept. In other words she is the magnified concept of the mother of a prosperous family, projected onto the township.