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About Om Jai Shakti
A quiet, ad-free home for devotion to the Goddess, built with care for the texts and the traditions behind them.
Texts and translations
The Devi Mahatmya is given in Sanskrit from Sanskrit Wikisource (CC BY-SA 4.0, by Sanskrit Wikisource contributors) beside the English translation of F. E. Pargiter (1904), which is in the public domain. Pargiter's wording is kept as printed, including its older English. Sources and any differences are noted on each chapter.
Aarti texts are traditional. Their meanings are our own plain-English renderings, not copied from any other site. Wording differs between families and regions; we note the main variants.
The Shakti Peethas
Lists of the Peethas differ between scriptures and regions. We show where a site is disputed and name our sources for each.
Illustrations
All paintings on the site are artist's impressions in the Pahari miniature style, created for Om Jai Shakti.
Sister sites
Gurukul History (the Vedas, Upanishads, epics and the gurukul tradition) and Veda Gurukuls (a directory of traditional Veda schools).