单词 | shakti |
释义 | Shaktin. In Hindu religion, the female principle, esp. when personified as the wife of a god, as Durgā is the Shakti of Shiva, etc.; supernatural energy embodied in the principle. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > other deities > [noun] > Indian or Hindu > female principle or energy Devi1800 Shakti1810 1810 E. Moor Hindu Pantheon 10 All the principal, and several of the secondary deities..have wives assigned to them, who are called Sacti. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 67/1 That thou, united with thy Sakti, dost in sport create the universe from thy own substance. 1862 Mrs. J. B. Speid Our Last Years in India vii. 174 Seresvati, the goddess of letters, &c., Lackshmi, of prosperity, and Kali or Parvati, of destruction... These three goddesses, under the name of the Sactis, sometimes receive an exclusive worship. 1871 J. Garrett Classical Dict. India 540 The Sakti is said to have originated in God, the Supreme Being... There are many special forms of Sakti-worship. 1913 J. N. Farquhar Crown of Hinduism 384 Hindu sects recognize every goddess as the sakti or energy of her husband. 1918 J. Woodroffe Shakti & Shâkta 49 According to Shâkta doctrine each man and woman contains within himself and herself a vast latent magazine of Power or Shakti. 1921 Brit. Mus. Return 68 Hindu stone sculptures from Java, representing Saktis of Bodhisattvas. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 480 It has been said by one: beware the left, the cult of Shakti. 1937 M. Covarrubias Island of Bali x. 339 Every Balinese believes that his body, like an electric battery, accumulates a magic energy called saktí that enables him to withstand that attacks of evil powers... This saktí is not evenly divided; some people are born with a capacity to store a higher charge of magic than others; they become the priests, witch-doctors, and so forth, endowed with supernatural powers. 1962 A. Huxley Island xiii. 213 Paintings of tropical animals, Bodhisattvas and their bosomy Shaktis. 1968 A. Warhol A 421 He doesn't have any bhakti it's all shakti. 1972 D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play xviii. 184 In thirty times thirty years will come one with the ears of the Buddha and with the saktí... Supernatural power. 1977 N.Y. Times Mag. 4 Dec. 144 Joya's famous shakti, or spiritual energy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1810 |
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