Coburn

Devi Mahatmya is a devotional text, and Thomas Coburn states that its aim is not to analyze divine forms or abstract ideas, but to praise.It accomplishes this with a philosophical foundation, wherein the female is the primordial being; she is also the Tridevi as 

1. the creator, 
2. the sustainer, and 
3. destroyer. 

She is described in text as the one who dwells in all creatures, as the soul, as the power to 

1. know, 
2. will and 
3. act. 

She is further described as the 

1. consciousness of all living beings, 
2. intelligence, 
3. matter, and 
4. all that is form or emotion.

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