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{{Infobox deity<br />
| name = Bhairavi<br />
| type = Hindu<br />
| image = Goddess Bhairavi.jpg<br />
| caption = A lithograph of Bhairavi<br />
| affiliation = [[Parvati]], [[Adishakti]], [[Mahavidya]], [[Mother Goddess]], [[Mahakali]]<br />
| abode = [[Mount Kailash]] and [[Manidvipa]]<br />
| mantra = Om Hasaim Hasakarim Hasaim Bhairavyay Namo Namah<br />
| mount = [[Indian lotus|Lotus]]<br />
| god_of = Goddess of [[Kundalini]]<ref>David Frawley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=T6Vp_rTWkAAC&dq=Kundalini+%2B+Bhairavi&pg=PA163 Inner Tantric Yoga], Lotus Press, 2008, page 163-164</ref><br />
| member_of = The Ten [[Mahavidyas]]<br />
| weapon = Trishula, Khaṭvāṅga, Sword, Kapala, Sickle and Damru<br />
}}<br />
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'''Bhairavi''' ({{langx|sa|भैरवी}}) is a [[Hindu]] goddess, described as one of the [[Mahavidya|Mahāvidya]]s, the ten avatars of the [[Mahadevi|mother goddess]]. She is the consort of [[Bhairava]] (a form of [[Shiva]]).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Magee |first=Mike |title=Todala Tantra |url=https://www.academia.edu/12503050}}</ref><br />
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== Etymology ==<br />
The name ''Bhairavi'' means "terrifying" or "awe-inspiring".<ref>Sukul, Kubernath. Vārānasī Vaibhava. Patna, India: Bihar Rastrabhasa Parisad, 1977</ref><br />
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==Iconography==<br />
Her dhyana [[shloka]] in the [[Devi Mahatmya]] describes her form. She wears red garments and wears a garland of severed heads around her neck. She has three eyes and her head is adorned with a crescent moon.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}} Alternatively, she is a beautiful woman with three eyes, clad in red (the typical color of tantric goddesses). She has a crown or a crescent, and her hair is loose. She may appear holding rosaries, manuscripts, a trident, a sword, a noose, a bow, etc. There are blood stains on her breasts and she may wear a garland of human heads or skulls.<ref>{{Cite book |last=McDaniel |first=June |title=Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls}}</ref><br />
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[[Tripura Sundari]] and Tripura Bhairavi are closely associated but different.<ref name="Bhairavi">{{cite web | url=http://www.manblunderplus.com/2014/11/dasamaha-vidya-tripurabhairavi-part-5.html | title=Tripura Bhairavi | work=Mahavidyas | access-date=June 4, 2016 | author=Ravi V | archive-date=7 August 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807135659/http://www.manblunderplus.com/2014/11/dasamaha-vidya-tripurabhairavi-part-5.html | url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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==Legend==<br />
Bhairavi is also a title for a female adept in [[Kundalini]], [[Tantra]]. A [[yogini]] is a student of [[Tantra]] or an aspirant. A ''Bhairavi'' has succeeded in Tantra with the help of 64 yoginis. Yogini or Jogini are 64 in number. Yoginis, female supporting deities of Bhairavi. Bhairavi is the supreme leader of all 64 yoginis. Bhairav also has 52 supporting powers called ''52 [[Bhairava|Bhairav]]''. Bhairavi is the consort of [[Bhairava]] according to the [[Puranas]] and [[Tantras (Hinduism)|Tantras]]. In Tantra Shastra all 64 yogini, 52 Bhairav and 56 Kalve work together.<br />
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Bhairavi is also called as Shubhankari, which means that she is the doer of auspicious deeds to her devotees who are her children, which means she is a good mother. She also favours violence, punishment and bloodshed to those who are irreligious and cruel, which also means that she is the mother of all violence to them. She is said to be seen as violent and terrible but is a benign mother to her children.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sivasakti.com/tantra/dasa-maha-vidya/tripura-bhairavi/|title=Tripura Bhairavi – SivaSakti}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sanskritimagazine.com/indian-religions/hinduism/spiritual-side-fierce-goddess-bhairavi-goddess-wisdom/|title=Spiritual side of fierce Goddess Bhairavi, the Goddess of wisdom|newspaper=Sanskriti - Hinduism and Indian Culture Website|date=4 May 2016|access-date=9 May 2019|archive-date=9 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220609032916/https://www.sanskritimagazine.com/indian-religions/hinduism/spiritual-side-fierce-goddess-bhairavi-goddess-wisdom/|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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File:The Goddess Bhairavi Devi with Shiva MET DP257990 (cropped).jpg|Tantric goddess Bhairavi and her consort [[Shiva]] depicted as [[Kapalika|Kāpālika ascetics]], sitting in a [[charnel ground]]. Painting by [[Payag|Payāg]] from a 17th-century manuscript (<abbr>c.</abbr> 1630–1635), [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City]].<br />
File:Tripura-bhairavi yantra color.jpg|Bhairavi yantra<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Bhairava]]<br />
* [[Bhramari]]<br />
* [[Devi]]<br />
* [[Mahakali]]<br />
* [[Mahavidya]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
* Kinsley, David (1988). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=hgTOZEyrVtIC Hindu Goddesses: Vision of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Traditions]''. University of California Press. {{ISBN|0-520-06339-2}}.<br />
* {{Cite book |last=Maity |first=P. K. |date=1966 |orig-year=1962 |title=Historical Studies in the Cult of the Goddess Manasa |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.128118 |location=Calcutta |publisher=Punthi Pustak |oclc=237198}}<br />
* Trivedi, R. D. (1981). ''Iconography of Parvati''. Delhi: .<br />
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