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TAPAR-LOKATARKSHYA,
the $akti of Siva, while Durga and Kali are fierce forms. The
Saktas or worshippers of the 5aktis are divided into two classes,
Dakshinacharis and Yamacharis, the right-handed and the left-
handed. The worship of the right-hand $aktas is comparatively
decent, but that of the left hand is addressed to the fierce forms
of the Saktis, and is most licentious. The female principle is
worshipped, not only symbolically, but .in the actual woman,
and promiscuous intercourse forms part of the orgies. Tantra
worship prevails chiefly in Bengal and the Eastern provinces.
TAPAE-LOKA, TAPO-LOKA. SwLoka.
TAPATI The river Tapti personified as a daughter of
Sun by Chhaya. She was mother of Kuru by Samvarana.
the
TAEA. Wife of the monkey king Balin, and mother of
Angada. After the death of Balin in battle she was taken to
wife by his brother, Su-griva.
TAEA, TAEAKA. Wife of BnhaspatL According to the
Purimas, Soma, the moon, carried her off, which led to a great
war between the gods and the Asuras. Brahma put an end to
the war and restored Tara, but she was delivered of a child
which she declared to be the son of Soma, and it was named
Budha. See Bnhaspati
TAEAKA. Son of Yajranaka. A Daitya whose austerities
made him formidable to the gods, and for whose destruction
Skanda, the god of war, was miraculously born.
TAEAKA. A female Daitya, daughter of the Yaksha Su-ketu
or of the demon Sunda, and mother of Mancha. She was
changed into a Eakshasi by Agastya, and lived in a forest called
by her name on the Ganges, opposite the confluence of the Sarju,
and she ravaged all the country round Yiswamitra desired
Eama-chandra to kill her, but he was reluctant to kill a woman.
He resolved to deprive her of the power of doing harm, and cut
off her two arms. Lakshmana cut off her nose and ears. She,
by the power of sorcery, assailed Eama and Lakshmawa with a
fearful shower of stones, and at the earnest command of Yiswa-
mitra, the former killed her with an arrow. Ramayana.
TAEAKA-MAYA The war which arose in consequence of
Soma, the moon, having carried off Tara, the wife of Brihaspati.
TAEKSHYA. An ancient mythological personification of
the sun in the form of a horse or bird. In later times the name
is applied to Garu