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- Shashthi abstract "Shashthi or Shashti (Sanskrit: षष्ठी, Ṣaṣṭhī, literally "sixth") is a Hindu folk goddess, venerated as the benefactor and protector of children (especially, as the giver of male child). She is also the deity of vegetation and reproduction and is believed to bestow children and assist during childbirth. She is often pictured as a motherly figure, riding a cat and nursing one or more infants. She is symbolically represented in a variety of forms, including an earthenware pitcher, a banyan tree or part of it or a red stone beneath such a tree; outdoor spaces termed shashthitala are also consecrated for her worship. The worship of Shashthi is proscribed to occur on the sixth day of each lunar month of the Hindu calendar as well as on the sixth day after a child's birth. Barren women desiring to conceive and mothers seeking to ensure the protection of their children will worship Shashthi and request her blessings and aid. She is especially venerated in eastern India.Most scholars believe that Shashthi's roots can be traced to Hindu folk traditions. References to this goddess appear in Hindu scriptures as early as 8th and 9th century BCE, in which she is associated with children as well as the Hindu war-god Skanda. Early references consider her a foster-mother of Skanda, but in later texts she is identified with Skanda's consort, Devasena. In some early texts where Shashthi appears as an attendant of Skanda, she is said to cause diseases in the mother and child, and thus needed to be propitiated on the sixth day after childbirth. However, over time, this malignant goddess became seen as the benevolent saviour and bestower of children.".
- Shashthi thumbnail Shasti.jpg?width=300.
- Shashthi wikiPageID "29782948".
- Shashthi wikiPageRevisionID "605877765".
- Shashthi affiliation Devi.
- Shashthi consort "Skanda when identified with Devasena".
- Shashthi devanagari "षष्ठी".
- Shashthi godOf "Goddess of children, reproduction and vegetation".
- Shashthi hasPhotoCollection Shashthi.
- Shashthi imageSize "230".
- Shashthi mount "Cat".
- Shashthi name "Shashthi".
- Shashthi type "Hindu".
- Shashthi subject Category:Childhood_goddesses.
- Shashthi subject Category:Fertility_goddesses.
- Shashthi subject Category:Hindu_goddesses.
- Shashthi type Abstraction100002137.
- Shashthi type Belief105941423.
- Shashthi type ChildhoodGoddesses.
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- Shashthi type Content105809192.
- Shashthi type Deity109505418.
- Shashthi type FertilityGoddesses.
- Shashthi type Goddess109535622.
- Shashthi type HinduGoddesses.
- Shashthi type PsychologicalFeature100023100.
- Shashthi type SpiritualBeing109504135.
- Shashthi comment "Shashthi or Shashti (Sanskrit: षष्ठी, Ṣaṣṭhī, literally "sixth") is a Hindu folk goddess, venerated as the benefactor and protector of children (especially, as the giver of male child). She is also the deity of vegetation and reproduction and is believed to bestow children and assist during childbirth. She is often pictured as a motherly figure, riding a cat and nursing one or more infants.".
- Shashthi label "Shashthi".
- Shashthi label "Shashthi".
- Shashthi label "Szaszthi".
- Shashthi sameAs Shashthi.
- Shashthi sameAs Szaszthi.
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- Shashthi sameAs Q534133.
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- Shashthi sameAs Shashthi.
- Shashthi wasDerivedFrom Shashthi?oldid=605877765.
- Shashthi depiction Shasti.jpg.
- Shashthi isPrimaryTopicOf Shashthi.