South-Indian Images of Gods and Goddesses c10.s3.1

c10.s3.1

Many other Saivite goddesses of fearful appearance, worshipped by people who wish to destroy their enemies or to receive some desired object of life, are described in the *Tāntrik* works. Some of these which are mentioned below may possibly be, as some suggest, the Aryanized forms of aboriginal deities still worshipped in the Pidāri temples of the South.