Kali idol | KALIKA 7.5" Goddess Kali statue - Kali devi Sculpture order Kalika Murti, Shiva Shakti, Black Hindu Goddess Ma Kali

DIMENSIONS -
Height- 19.5 CM/ 8 Inches Approx
Width- 14 CM/ 6 Inches Approx
Depth- 6 CM/ 2.5 Inches Approx

Weight (kg) :- 0.560 Kg

Kali, (Sanskrit: “She Who Is Black” or “She Who Is Death”) in Hinduism, goddess of time, doomsday, and death, or the black goddess (the feminine form of Sanskrit kala, “time-doomsday-death” or “black”).
In popular story-telling, the reason for Kali sticking out her tongue is rather domestic. After killing the demon Daruka, Kali drank his blood. So he took the form of a handsome order man and lay in Kali's path. As soon as Kali stepped on him, she bit her tongue out of embarrassment.

Kālī is the feminine form of "time" or "the fullness of time" with the masculine noun "kāla", and by extension, time as "changing aspect of nature that bring things to life or death." Her other epithets include Kālarātri ("the black night"), and Kālikā ("the black one").

The homonym kāla (appointed time) is distinct from kāla (black), but these became associated through popular etymology. The association is seen in a passage from the Mahābhārata, depicting a female figure who carries away the spirits of slain warriors and animals. She is called Kali Mata ("the dark mother") and also kālī which, as Coburn notes, can be read here either as a proper name or as a description "the dark blue one".Kālī is also the feminine form of Kāla (an epithet of Shiva) and thus the consort of Shiva.

Other origin stories involve Parvati and Shiva. Parvati is typically portrayed as a benign and friendly goddess. The Linga Purana describes Shiva asking Parvati to defeat the demon Daruka, who received a boon that would only allow a female to kill him. Parvati merges with Shiva's body, reappearing as Kali to defeat Daruka and his armies. Her bloodlust gets out of control, only calming when Shiva intervenes. The Vamana Purana has a different version of Kali's relationship with Parvati. When Shiva addresses Parvati as Kali, "the dark blue one," she is greatly offended. Parvati performs austerities to lose her dark complexion and becomes Gauri, the golden one. Her dark sheath becomes Kausiki, who while enraged, creates Kali. Regarding the relationship between Kali, Parvati, and Shiva, Kinsley writes that:

In relation to Shiva, she [Kali] appears to play the opposite role from that of Parvati. Parvati calms Shiva, counterbalancing his antisocial or destructive tendencies; she brings him within the sphere of domesticity and with her soft glances urges him to moderate the destructive aspects of his tandava dance. Kali is Shiva's "wife" as it were, provoking him and encouraging him in his mad, antisocial, disruptive habits. It is never Kali who tames Shiva, but Shiva who must calm Kali.



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