Obscure Religious Cults as Background of Bengali Literature c2.124

c2.124

[The primordial Goddess in the Upaniṣads—Prakṛti of Sāṃkhya—Kṣetra and Kṣetrajña of the Gītā—a hotch-potch of the Upaniṣadic and the Sāṃkhya accounts in the Purāṇas—the triad, personification of the three guṇas of Prakṛti—the conceptions of the Ādi-deva and the Ādi-devī of the vernaculars and the conceptions of Śiva and Śakti in the Tantras—the triad and the three goddesses associated with them—the story of the test of the triad.]