• Concept of Universe as union of male (purusha) and female
(prakriti) principles gives female equal status with male.
• Hindu women:
“Look to the concept of sakti (latent in both the
Masculine and the feminine) to challenge the patriarchal
images of women and thus to recover the feminine principle
in both women and men” (Sugitharajah, p 81)
• “Kali stands for the destruction of ignorance in order to
Recreate” (p 73)
• Tantric Tradition: embraces pollution, sexual union - to
Overcome all appearance of duality (but may have abused
the davadasis).
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